Found on the US Patent and Trademark Office website, these are the only two pages publicly available from a concept paper produced by Crye Associates, a revolutionary industrial design firm now known as Crye Precision and the creator of some of the most innovative individual clothing and equipment on the market.
Published in March 2001, this concept would eventually be funded by Natick Soldier Systems Center under the Objective Force Warrior program.
Apparently, based on other IP filings we know that before MultiCam Crye Associates had a pattern named UniPat, as in Universal Pattern, which may have been an earlier version of MultiCam. The name UniPat is from 2002 and may offer a clue as to where the Army came up with the Universal Camouflage Pattern name or why Crye quickly abandoned it.
Just imagine, imagine if we had scorpion in 2005 instead of UCP.. Just like if MTV had never stopped playing music. We would probably have laser rifles with all that money we had saved messing around with a simple camo pattern and all the fraud waste and abuse.
Not to mention the lives that must’ve been lost because of the poor concealment value of the UCP.
Personally, I think All-Over Brush would’ve been a better choice, but I’m certain the brass thought it looked too much like DPM.
And it ain’t the only big blunder in the past 100 years. Just read up on what hoops the US jumped through and made NATO jump through with the .308 selection as 7.62NATO. Same guy who orchestrated that tried to sabotage early M16s in the field. That definitely had to have cost lives.
SPECWARGER.com has some awesome pics of the Prototype Body Armor that SS has covered here before.
Do you think Crye will ever release some of these docs? Unless they wont due to something legal, I love reading about these historic ways of how things came to be. It would be a great read to almost have as a coffee table book even!
I think it was Future Force Warrior. Just saying.
It was Objective Force Warrior -> Future Force Warrior -> Land Warrior -> Nett Warrior -> IVAS?
Good word. Thanks for the clarification.
I became aware during FFW.