By now you’ve read these cool revelations online that the Army camo program race is too close to call. That couldn’t be further from the truth.
I spent some time in the Test and Evaluation business and one thing you should notice is that the more data you collect, the closer you will come to a true average of performance. In this case, with over 120,000 data points collected, pitting four commercial families of camouflage patterns across examples of the Global Military Operating Environments, everything started to look flat. One family’s woodland might do very well yet their desert pattern, not so much, and so on throughout testing. This was especially true with the transitional patterns that all used virtually the same color palette. As test data was weighted and tabulated, everything started to look like it performed the same. And yet, there was one area, where one family of patterns stood out, and that was the family that was recommended to the Army’s leadership.
Now, we wait to hear the announcement of that decision.
