“We thought a lot of the funding from defense contracts was going to go to PPE,” he says. “We thought business was going to hurt during Covid.”Instead, Fredericksburg, Virginia-based Aspetto’s business boomed. “We’re not part of the norm in this industry,” Davis says. Haider figures the company’s existing contracts will help it get a foot in the door, despite being newcomers to that industry as well. “When we got into the armor industry we didn’t know much about armor, we just knew we wanted to learn about it,” Haider says.

Source: Forbes October 06, 2020 10:30 UTC