July 20, 2010
US ARMY CHOOSES MCCURDY’S ARMOR FOR ALL ENTRY CONTROL POINTS IN AFGHANISTAN
CEO Robert A. Lipinski of Dynamic Defense Materials, LLC (DDM) announced today that the company has just been awarded a contract to supply its patent-pending portable armored wall system, McCurdy’s Armor, to the United States Army.
The contract is valued in excess of $14,000,000 and is Phase One of a five year plan.
As outlined in the contract, the Army will use McCurdy’s Armor as guard posts for entry control points (ECP’s) at forward operating bases throughout Afghanistan. The armor will be delivered on pallets as part of an “ECP package” that will consist of various components to protect a greater number of troops working in the mountains and in other rough terrain where delivering heavy equipment presents a challenge....
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March 31, 2010
Dynamic Defense Materials, LLC is Awarded Contract from the Mexican Federal Police to Supply McCurdy’s Armor
Dynamic Defense Materials, LLC (DDM) recently received a contract award in excess of one million dollars to supply its patent pending portable armored wall system- McCurdy’s Armor- to the Mexican Federal Police.
The police will use the gear as rapidly deployed guard posts for their missions in the war on drugs that has taken many lives and progressively expanded throughout Mexico in recent years... Full News Story. Download article in .PDF format.
December 16, 2009
Dynamic Defense Materials selling temporary guard posts to Marines
Dynamic Defense Materials said it won a $797,400 contract to supply armored guard posts called McCurdy's Armor to the U.S. Marine Corps.
The Marlton, N.J., company said the posts can be set up by three Marines in 10 minutes and will be used for vehicle checkpoints, entry control points and observation posts in Afghanistan and Iraq.
A DDM spokesman said it is supplying 14 kits with custom trailers to transport them, plus training on how to assemble them at Camp Pendleton in California... Full News Story (Philadelphia Business Journal).
December 15, 2009
PORTABLE FORTIFIED GUARD POSTS HEADING TO AFGHANISTAN
By Dave Pugliese
U.S. Marines in Afghanistan will be getting portable armored walls so they can quickly set up protective cover against various weapons.
Dynamic Defense Materials, LLC (DDM) has received a contract for $797,400 (U.S.) to supply its portable armored wall system, McCurdy's Armor, to the United States Marine Corps. McCurdy’s Armor is a fully fortified guard post that can be set up by three Marines using no hand tools or heavy equipment in about ten minutes, according to the company.
The Marines will use the gear as rapidly deployed guard posts in their missions in Afghanistan and Iraq, DDM says. These posts are to be delivered in DDM-M105 trailers and once fielded can be used for vehicle checkpoints, entry control points and observation posts...
Full News Story (Ottawa Citizen via Canada.com).
December 15, 2009
Marlton firm sells Marines 'Lego-type' outposts
By Joseph DiStefano
Dynamic Defense Materials LLC, the military-hardware mini-conglomerate backed by Marlton investor Robert A. Lipinski, says it's sold 14 of its McCurdy's Armor kits and trailers, for $800,000, to the US Marine Corps, in a contract signed last week, for use as snap-together checkpoints in Iraq.
McCurdy's Armor is a "Lego-type system" of frames, connected with steel pins, that can be reinforced with armor plate, sand and "ballistic glass", according to Dynamic promotional materials. The parts can be trucked into place and assembled on site as outposts or shelters during "rapid deployment," to defend against bullets and fragments from grenades and bombs.
The armor plates are made by "different vendors throughout Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York," says Joseph Dimond, product specialist and military liaison for Dynamic. He said this was the largest order to date for the system.
Why's it called McCurdy's? "The gear is named for one of my Marines," Lance Corporal Ryan S. McCurdy, "who was killed by a sniper in Fallujah," Iraq, in 2006, Dimond told me. Dimond was McCurdy's sergeant. More on McCurdy's Armor here.
Full News Story from USA Today.
November 16, 2009
Leading Manufacturer of Defense Products Dynamic
Defense Materials Organizes Holiday Drive For Troops
Dynamic Defense Materials has collaborated with two NJ schools to organize
a Support Our Troops Holiday Drive along with Lipinski Outdoor Services.
Contact:
Joe Dimond
Product Specialist/Military Liaison
856-552-4150
jdimond@ddmat.com
"We wished some of these men and women could be with their
families over the holidays. We wanted to send a reminder that
people care and appreciate all they do for our country."
Dynamic Defense Materials, creator of the McCurdy's Armor portable armored wall system, along with Lipinski Outdoor Services, a leading exterior services company, has recently organized a Support Our Troops Holiday Drive in order to show appreciation for a group of US Army troops stationed in Afghanistan.
The two companies, both founded by Robert A. Lipinski, reached out to students at Demasi Middle School and Pitman Memorial Elementary School for help writing warm holiday messages for the troops.... Full News Story. Download article in .PDF format.
July 2009
Base Defense
Defining the Threats is Key to Base Camp Protection.
By J.J. Smith
SOTECH Correspondent
The development of cutting edge base camp protection technologies being deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq has been fueled by assessments of the threats each U.S. camp is facing, say representatives of the companies producing those products. A key to protecting the troops and civilians as they go about their business on a base is for the threat to be... Full News Story. Download article in .PDF format.
Jun 14, 2009
Work pays honor to fallen Marine
By SANDY DAVIS
Advocate staff writer
Former Marine Staff Sgt. Joe Dimond still remembers the day in 2006 when he saw his friend, Lance Cpl. Ryan McCurdy, shot and killed by a sniper in Iraq.
“It’s something I live with every day — remembering my friends,” Dimond said.
Dimond, 32, of Pennsylvania, was inside a building in Fallujah that day, but he could see McCurdy, who was using a concrete barrier for protection.
McCurdy, 20 and a lifelong resident of Baton Rouge, and Cpl. Clifton Trotter were two of three Marines taking turns standing post on the outer side of the concrete barrier — which was open to the Iraqi people.
“They had to have someone stand out in the open because you couldn’t see around the concrete barrier,” Dimond said... Full News Story
Jun 11, 2009
Fallen soldier honored with new armor
The death of a local soldier could help save the lives of many more. Ryan McCurdy was killed in Iraq three years ago while trying to save a fellow Marine... Full News Story
May 27, 2009
Marine lives on in armor
By BARBARA ORMSBY
Times Correspondent
RIDLEY TOWNSHIP — It was a solemn ceremony Tuesday when the memory of a young Marine from Baton Rouge, La.,who died in Iraq while saving the life of a wounded comrade, was honored with the introduction of a portable armored wall system named after him.
The event took place at the Herbert W. Best VFW Post 928.
McCurdy’s Armor is named for Ryan McCurdy, who served in Fallujah with Joe Dimond of Clifton Heights. Dimond is the products specialist/military liaison for Dynamic Defense Materials of Marlton, N.J. The armored system sets up in minutes and can be assembled into multiple configurations, removed easily and used repeatedly. Information on the product states that its windows will stop most ammunition and can be opened to return fire or communicate as needed... Full News Story
May 26, 2009
Local Marines Sendoff Marked by Renaming of Critical
Military Equipment
Congressman Sestak recognizes Delco Marine Division, equipment
manufacturers and fallen warrior for whom product is named
Folsom, PA — Congressman Joe Sestak (PA-07) recognized 80 members
of the 6th Marine Engineer Support Battalion company based
in Folsom, expressing his appreciation for their service as they prepare to depart Wednesday for their final training before deploying to Iraq.
As part of the occasion, Dynamic Defense Materials LLC made an announcement about a product it developed to better protect the men
and women of the Folsom company, and thousands of other American military personnel overseas.
The company renamed the equipment after Marine LCpl. Ryan S. McCurdy, who was killed in a sniper fire incident in Fallujah, Iraq
that Dynamic Defense’s product could have potentially prevented. McCurdy’s parents, Grant and Jan, flew from Baton Rouge, LA to
attend the ceremony and a presentation by the company, which now employs Joe Dimond, an area Marine Veteran who served with McCurdy.... Full Press Release
May 26, 2009
Lentz joins Dynamic Defense Materials in renaming product line after fallen Marine
Ryan McCurdy’s ultimate sacrifice inspires company to introduce portable armored wall system in his name
SWARTHMORE, May 26 – State Rep. Bryan R. Lentz, D-Delaware, joined Dynamic Defense Materials to announce the name change of their Evaloch Armor product line to McCurdy’s Armor in honor of Marine Lance Cpl. Ryan McCurdy (KIA) at the Herbert W. Best VFW Post 928.
“Lance Corporal McCurdy was a true American hero who lost his life saving another Marine with whom he was standing guard,” Lentz, who is a war veteran, said. “Ryan saved a life on the battlefield and now he will save countless lives through his inspiration.”... Full Press Release
May 26, 2009 5:37 pm US/Eastern
Young Marine Memorialized Through New Armor
A young marine, who gave his life in Iraq to save a fellow comrade, will forever be memorialized by soldiers as they head into war.
Marine Ryan McCurdy of Baton Rouge, Louisiana was honored in a special way Tuesday at the VFW in Folsom, Pa.
Joe Diamond of Clifton Heights was in Fallujah in 2006 with McCurdy, when McCurdy lost his life saving a wounded comrade, Cpl. Clifton Trotter of Mississippi.
Diamond works as a products specialist for Dynamic Defense Materials in Marlton, N.J and announced to a crowd at the VFW that a new protective armor will be named after McCurdy... Full News Story
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Marine’s heroism not lost on survivor
By BARBARA ORMSBY
Times Correspondent
RIDLEY TOWNSHIP — An act of heroism in Iraq by a young Marine that cost him his life will be remembered in a very special way in a ceremony set for 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Herbert W. Best VFW Post 928.
Joe Diamond of Clifton Heights was in Fallujah in January, 2006, with fellow Marine Ryan McCurdy of Baton Rouge, La., when McCurdy gave his life while trying to save the life of a wounded comrade, Cpl. Clifton Trotter of Mississippi. Trotter survived and named his son after McCurdy... Full News Story
Tue May 12, 2009 9:00am EDT
Defense Solutions Holdings Inc. / DFSH Announces Distribution Agreement with Dynamic Defense Materials
EXTON, Pa.--(Business Wire)--
Defense Solutions, Inc., an international project management and executive consulting firm, a wholly owned subsidiary of Defense Solutions Holding, Inc.
(OTC Bulletin Board: DFSH - News), announces that the Company has signed a distribution agreement with Dynamic Defense Materials, LLC, manufacturer of portable anti-ballistic and anti-blast structures. Defense Solutions will be an exclusive distributor of these portable armored wall systems called McCurdy’s ArmorTM in Iraq... Full Press Release