Once put on, the stealth field should work normally.
A way to solve this is to wear the armor, drop it, save the game, reload, and then pick it up from the ground.
South Boston military checkpoint, in a trunk. This armor can be modified with ballistic weave, and has several different levels of upgrades depending on the ranks in the Armorer perk. The technology was the basis for the unstable 'Stealth Boy' wrist units developed in the U.S. It generates a modulating field that transmits the reflected light from one side of an object to the other, making a person much harder to notice (but not completely invisible).
The armor is a form-fitting armored jumpsuit, with stealth camouflage system embedded. It was available to elite Chinese Crimson Dragoon troops as well as the Black Ghost counter-insurgency/terror units before and during the Great War. Chinese stealth armor was used during the Chinese invasion of Alaska and was the Chinese solution to invasion by U.S.
