Briefing
Analysis and field notes on protective construction, ballistic materials, and infrastructure resilience.
2 November 2026
A fence and a camera record an attack on a pump station. They do little to delay one. How to turn a water utility’s risk and resilience assessment into protective construction…
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26 October 2026
The equipment that keeps a server hall running often sits in yards behind a fence. Where the exposure is on a campus, how to write the threat, and what to specify…
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19 October 2026
Most protective construction goes into a building that already exists and has to stay open. How to plan the protected line, the structure, the openings and the phasing…
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12 October 2026
A substation fence marks the boundary. It does not stop a rifle round. What owners should specify for transformers and control buildings, with NERC CIP-014 as the frame…
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12 October 2026
Storage sites are unstaffed, remote and full of long-lead equipment. The ballistic, forced-entry and vehicle threats an owner should evaluate, and how each is addressed…
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12 October 2026
A protective envelope is only as strong as its weakest component, and the weak links are usually at the interfaces. Seven joints to specify by name, and who should own them…
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13 August 2026
ArmorBlock is a fillable CMU filled with Amidon Shield to build reinforced protective walls using familiar masonry methods — engineered for a job conventional block was never meant to do…
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13 August 2026
Government laboratories define the hardest problems; specialized industry partners help make solutions practical to build, deploy, and sustain — how that works for technologies like SMRs…
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11 August 2026
Not every threat comes from a hostile actor. In data centers and industrial plants, the persistent problem is vibration and low-frequency noise — and mass is the answer…
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11 August 2026
ArmorBlock installs with standard grouting techniques and adapts on site with its break-away tab design — professional-grade mass for durable do-it-yourself builds…
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11 May 2026
Modern military operations depend on uninterrupted power. Command centers, communications networks, surveillance systems, access control, drones…
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16 September 2025
In today’s world, security is no longer optional, it is essential. From government facilities and corporate campuses to residential communities and…
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2 September 2025
How FEMA, DHS, the U.S. State Department, and Other Agencies Can Use High Performance Shock Absorbing Concretes (HPSAC) to Protect People, Assets…
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11 August 2025
For commercial real estate developers and architects, the days of designing solely for aesthetics and basic structural integrity are over.
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9 August 2025
Insurance rates look at risk and buildings can now reduce risk through advances in construction materials.
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30 June 2025
eShield is a proprietary enhancement of Amidon’s core Shield material, engineered not only to protect against ballistic and blast threats but…
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30 June 2025
June 2025 – In the wake of the latest Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian airfields, which damaged critical military assets hundreds of miles behind…
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30 June 2025
Amidon is rethinking protection through material innovation, not just hardware.
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26 June 2025
At the heart of Amidon’s proprietary technology is Shield, a proprietary blast- and ballistic-mitigating material designed to fundamentally…
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26 June 2025
ArmorBlock is a proprietary structural defense system that combines the everyday usability of a CMU (concrete masonry unit) with the advanced threat…
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