Vice President of Armor Systems - Mr. Robert "Bob" Coffelt

Mr. Coffelt has over twenty-four years of experience in the design, development, testing and certification of composite armor systems. Mr. Coffelt is responsible for designing and prototyping personal armor using 3WEAVE^TM fabrics. He is currently overseeing qualification and certification as well as initial production of rifle level Body Armor Inserts using 3WEAVE^TM FRP backing plates. Prior to working at 3TEX, Mr. Coffelt was the Ballistics Range and product development manager at the former Lanxide Armor Products, Inc (LAP). There Mr. Coffelt oversaw the transition of armor systems from prototype to production, instituting quality control standards, and developing several VARTM systems and other composite manufacturing techniques to facilitate economical, repeatable armor package construction. Mr. Coffelt designed numerous Body Armor Inserts, including a successful design for the original specifications for the Army Interceptor program, and several designs using 3WEAVE^TM FRP. Also, Mr. Coffelt was directly responsible for the development of multiple armor platforms for vehicle applications, which included thread levels from 7.62 mm AP (0.30 caliber) up to 30 mm canon level threats. Mr. Coffelt worked on the team, which developed ceramic armor hex tile appliqué armor, used for protection against 155 mm bomb bursts in the Gulf War. He was the coordinator for the M9 ACE armor program, and was responsible for some of the structural design work and ballistic design and evaluation. Mr. Coffelt oversaw ballistic evaluation of components for the LAV, the M1, the Breecher and the Bradley armored vehicles, and designed armor packages for the M113 and the HMMWV.

Manager of Armor Systems- Mr. James Larsen

Mr. Larsen has a Bachelor’s of Science in Applied Physics with a minor in Chemistry from Western Washington University and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Keiser University. Before joining 3TEX, Inc. in September 2007 he consulted for the armor industry in blast and ballistic engineering with Delta Elite, Inc. While there he assisted in the development of composite structures intended for military use in blast mitigation for US embassies and ballistic resistant composite structures for US naval vessels. His areas of expertise are blast mitigation and engineering for hardening of buildings, ballistic resistant composite structures for projectiles, maritime armor systems, infrastructure security and explosives.  

Project Coordinator for Armor Systems - Mr. Nicholas Parker

Mr. Parker comes to 3TEX very early in his career. He completed his Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. During his time at 3TEX he has developed and maintained a central database of ballistic threats and resposes that is state of the art. Nick is currently responsible for administration within the armor group and its congressionally appropriated research contracts.