Annual Federal Range Day 2014 from ADS INC on Vimeo.
Check out this video of the ADS Federal Range Day that was held on May 16th, 2014 at the Trijicon range near Fredericksburg, Virgina. If you look closely, you can catch SSD and Tactical Fanboy in a couple of the shots.
Tactical Distributors and Uber Group are co-presenting the first annual No Brakes Throwdown. Sponsored by Arc’teryx, S&S Precision, Daniel Defense, SSD, Smith Optics, and more, the No Brakes Throwdown is a charity fundraiser consisting of barbecue, beverages, and go kart racing! Don’t miss it!
Racing is open to all, but limited to just 130 available slots. Naturally, those not wishing to race can also attend as spectators! The top four racers will receive prizes from the sponsor companies, and the first place winner will choose the charity the funds are donated to.
The event is being held at American Indoor Karting in Virginia Beach, Virginia on July 9th, 2014 from 1730-2200 Eastern. That’s the night before ADS Warrior East.
For more information and to purchase tickets visit www.tacticaldistributors.com/blog/no-brakes-throwdown
Travis E,
Keep up the fight, nobody deserves a transplant quicker than you do. It will all be better soon.
Our thoughts and prayers are with you.
-The SSD Family
Vertx is hiring Subject Matter Experts on a contract basis for the Summer to travel with their commercial reps. Here are the details of the position.
Summer SME Contractors (June-August 2014)
– Work in conjunction with commercial business development reps to drive Vertx-specific brand awareness and set up new accounts
– Work within established and measured budgets and parameters to meet territory or account-specific ROI
– Act as tactical subject matter expert (SME) specific to Vertx brand for the commercial business development representatives within assigned territory and account base
– Prospect for new and incremental commercial retail partners appropriate for Vertx brand
– Keep commercial retail partners informed of current company promotions, train customer staff, and monitor inventory
– Former military, LE, shooting sports experience desired
– Must be able to travel three to four days a week
If interested send resume to dmorrow@vertx.com.
Photo Credit – Courtesy The Researchers
Researchers at MIT have developed a new algorithm that analyzes photos of a scene taken from multiple perspectives and produces a camouflage covering for an object placed within that environment.
Objects hidden by the best performing algorithm took more than 3 seconds to find, which is significantly longer than the casual glance the camouflage is intended to fool.
Although camouflage systems like this aren’t new, this latest effort from the MIT research team is seemingly the most advanced variant to date. Technology like this could easily be adapted to cover up sensor placements, machine gun placements, or other pre-established structures and equipment in the field. However, I don’t see an application for its use with clothing, individual equipment or vehicles as it’s too specific.
Hat tip: newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/algorithms-produce-patterns-that-could-hide-public-eyesores-
The Valhalla Project is a Veteran reintegration and homesteading education project founded by retired Special Forces LTC Gordon Cucullu and his wife Chris Fontana. Based in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, the long term goal of the Valhalla Project is to become a completely self sufficient, permaculture based farm. It serves as a place for combat veterans and civilian wartime contractors to learn life skills, decompress, and transition back to a peacetime lifestyle.
Currently, Valhalla requires a Utility Vehicle for use as a workhorse and to transport Veterans with limited mobility around the 200 acre property, which operates year-round and sits on rough terrain.
A fundraiser set up on GoFundMe is working towards purchasing a $12,000 Yamaha Viking UTV. Donate to support this worthy cause, and take advantage of some best donation rewards we’ve ever seen in a crowd funding campaign, including signed novels, certificates for training courses, a 762Tactical Operator Chest Rig, and even having your name immortalized in the latest Dalton Fury Delta Force book. The donation period is limited, so please, help out if you can.
This is an official announcement from SilencerCo regarding the recent hiring of Johnny Primiano to a position in their Business Development department.
SilencerCo is proud to issue a formal welcome to the newest member of our team, Johnny “Primo” Primiano. Johnny is an Army Special Operations Veteran with two handfuls of deployments under his belt. A year and a half of his enlisted time was spent as Senior Selection Board Member during the writing of the current requirements for SOCOMs suppressor and muzzle device programs. This background makes Johnny ideal for his position in SilencerCo’s Business Development department, focusing on Government Programs in both the foreign and domestic realms. We are excited to have Johnny on board, and look forward to the impact he will have on SilencerCo’s culture of innovation, education, and dedication to customer service.
Congrats Primo!
Called SITA by its creator Physical Optics Corp, the Tactical Flex Display Unit is offered in a couple of different sizes. It’s currently greyscale and sunlight readable as well as compatible with NVGs. They’re working on a color version that will also be sunlight readable. Below, you can see a couple of mockups.
SITA runs on Android OS and offers a certain amount of inherent functionality along with the ability to serve as a I/O peripheral for other devices. Currently using a commercial mapping software, they are working on the integration of NGA digital mapping products (raster and vector), SITA can be used as an autonomous Blue Force Tracker. POC pairs SITA with a digital GPS Receiver and commercial satellite tracker/text messenger Track24 to offer BFT services as well as sat text messaging.
