Special Operations Veterans Test Emerging Military Technology Under Live Combat ConditionsBOZEMAN, Mont., Dec. 9, 2025 — Reveal Technology Inc., a veteran-founded defense technology company, today announced the premiere of “BattleLab” on VET Tv, a series that brings together former Special Operators with emerging military technology to test what works under real-world conditions, addressing a widening gap in U.S. defense modernization.

The first-of-its-kind training environment puts cutting-edge defense systems through their paces in combat scenarios that mirror actual battlefield conditions. The series is hosted by Garrett Smith, CEO of Reveal Technology and Marine combat veteran, alongside co-hosts Phil Divinski and Jerad Watlington, both Army Special Operations veterans with more than 20 years of service and founders of Jeddoc.

“In the battles of tomorrow, the team that adapts first wins,” said Garrett Smith, CEO of veteran-founded defense company Reveal Technology. “The pace of technological change on the battlefield has never been faster, but the procurement process and the way units experiment with new tactics can’t keep up. If we’re not testing and adapting in training, we’ll pay for it later.”

BattleLab uses force-on-force, live-fire, and non-permissive environment simulations to pressure-test cutting-edge defense technology, including Reveal’s Farsight (geospatial intelligence) and Identifi (mobile biometrics) platforms. Each cycle is structured around a scoring rubric that gamifies performance, allowing every tactic, tool, and team to be measured consistently across scenarios.

“There’s no field manual for how we integrate a lot of these new technologies,” said Phil Divinski, CEO of Jeddoc. “BattleLab is where we figure that out by defining an operational objective, replicating the operational environment, and iterating. Mission success determines whether a tactic, technique, or technology is effective.”

BattleLab process is being fully documented to accelerate learning and increase transparency. Veteran-owned studio VET Tv is producing the documentation as a serialized program, giving viewers an unfiltered look at the scenarios, failures, and breakthroughs shaping the future of warfare.

The inaugural season features three combat scenarios:

Episode 1: Strong Point– Two teams battle for physical control of a vital village building, pitting an entrenched defensive force against an assaulting team starting from outside the village.

Episode 2: Contested Exfil – High stakes race where one team, starting from inside a building, attempts to reach their designated pick-up site before the opposing team, assaulting from outside the village, can eliminate them.

Episode 3: Organic Strike – One team must quickly camouflage and physically protect their communications link within a village against another team’s objective of finding and destroying it using drone strikes.

“VET Tv is proud to produce BattleLab,” said John Acevedo, CEO of VET Tv. “This isn’t just compelling television. What Reveal and Jeddoc are doing here is genuinely groundbreaking: bringing tactical training and defense technology integration into the 21st century. We’re honored to help tell this story with the authenticity and realism it deserves.”

BattleLab will premiere as a serialized program on VET Tv beginning December 9, 2025. New seasons will roll out quarterly, capturing every iteration of tactics, technology, and lessons learned as the BattleLab evolves.

For more information and episode access visit: www.veterantv.tv/battle-lab

Richmond, VA. (October 17th, 2025) – German Precision Optics (GPO) RANGEGUIDE 10×40 Rangefinding Binoculars are a testament to GPO’s commitment to pioneering high-performance optics. In their continued effort to provide customers with cutting-edge products, GPO has, once again,set the standard in precision rangefinding binoculars with the upgrade of their popular RANGEGUIDE lineup.

“This is a truly remarkable product,” said Mike Jensen, GPO USA’s owner and CEO. “We upgraded the display functions and modes and added a new state-of-the-art photo sensor for automatic reticle light setting. Now, the smallest 40mm rangefinding binocular in its class is loaded with features and technology second-to-none.”

The heart of these rangefinding binoculars lies in the 40mm objective lens, meticulously crafted and enhanced with GPObright™ high-transmission lens coatings. This symbiotic fusion of advanced coatings and optimal lens size ensures exceptional brightness, even in challenging low-light conditions. GPO RANGEGUIDE’s are crafted with a magnesium body and fortified by a rubber armor coating, guaranteeing the binoculars’ resilience against harsh environments and conditions.  The ranging capabilities will reach out to 3500 yards or as close as 6 yards. The 10×40 RANGEGUIDE provides a lightning-fastresponse time of .25 seconds.

This exceptional fusion of optical brilliance and state-of-the-art rangefinding technology is fortified by GPO’s enduring commitment to excellence, epitomized by the Spectacular Lifetime Warranty™. All RANGEGUIDE models come standardwith a neoprene neck strap, microfiber cleaning cloth, ocular and objective lens covers, a hard case, and a single CR-2 battery.

Features include:

• Ranging capability from 6 yards to over 3500 yards

• True-range angle technology

• Scan mode that provides three readings per second

• Temperature readings for long-range shooting

• OLED display with nine brightness settings

• Auto display brightness feature

• Double HD glass technology

• GPObright™ lens coating technology

• Waterproof and fog proof

• PASSIONdrop™ hydrophobic coating

• Humidity and barometric pressure readings

MSRP: $1,349.99 

To learn more about German Precision Optics’ state-of-the-art product line and their industry-leading Spectacular Lifetime Warranty™, please visit www.gpo-usa.com or call 844-MY-BINOS (844-692-4667). 

Dear Industry,

We’ve been very generous in posting relevant press releases submitted by our industry. We don’t charge for the service and are generally pretty quick to get them posted. More and more of these are written by a Large Language Model Artificial Intelligence.

We’ve even posted PRs written in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) even though they are a serious PITA to transfer over to WordPress (our platform).

For those of you who don’t know, ChatGPT (and perhaps others) have begun to insert syntax errors into the documents they produce which are only detectable once copied and pasted from their native workspaces.

In the future, if we detect AI derived press releases, we aren’t going to post them. Like press releases submitted in PDF format, they require a lot of work to make them presentable in the website.

You can take the time to edit them yourselves before you submit them we will happily continue to support your efforts, but we aren’t going to do the dirty work for you.

The SSD Team

SOFWERX, in collaboration with USSOCOM Program Executive Office Tactical Information Systems, will host an Assessment Event (AE) 28-30 October 2025 to identify a currently available USSOCOM modular payload Standard Version 5.1 standard compliant software defined radio (SDR) for UAS, Manned Aircraft and Small Maritime Vessels, with an open architecture to enable porting of Special Operations Forces-Peculiar waveforms as well as the ability to undergo a development effort to align SDR capabilities with USSOCOM needs.

The SDR must have an open architecture that allows a development effort to be conducted in partnership with USSOCOM to meet operational requirements. The modified SDR must have open architecture that also allows third party waveform development/ports. The operational SDR will enable efficient and effective interoperability with various maneuver platforms, antenna configurations, and Electronic Warfare systems. This is NOT an effort to develop/engineer a new SDR modular payload standard radio chassis. The SDR will have the ability to port and natively run both SOF-P and DoD communication waveforms. Software zeroization (aka “Bricking”) will be integrated into the SDR to reduce risk of critical program information loss. The SDR must have the ability to port and natively run SOF-P waveforms without additional modules while maintaining the modular payload standard.

For more information and to register, visit events.sofwerx.org/peo-tis-sdr

Submit NLT 17 September 2025 11:59 PM ET
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Imagine being at a unit and having the ability to purchase a multitude of vetted Uncrewed Aircraft Systems on a marketplace similar to Amazon. That’s just what the Army aims to do in order to get small drones into the hands of every squad by 2026 as well as manage the voracious appetite DoD will have for this game changing technology.

The U.S. Army’s Program Executive Office for Aviation (PEO Aviation), in collaboration with the Project Management Office for Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (PM UAS) and Army Contracting Command Redstone (ACC-RSA), has announced an Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS) Industry Day, scheduled for 16 through 18 September 2025 in Huntsville, AL.

This event aims to foster collaboration between the Army and industry stakeholders to advance the development, integration, and sustainment of UAS capabilities.

In an effort to accelerate its modernization and transform how it acquire UAS, the Army is introducing the UAS marketplace concept which aims to create an environment of continuous competition across multiple domains, increasing opportunities for a wide range of companies and organizations with the end goal of accelerating capability to Soldiers.

Unlike traditional, long-term contracts with limited vendors and costly upgrades, the UAS Marketplace fosters open innovation and innovative business approaches by allowing any qualified industry partner to contribute.

Areas of Interest

Air Vehicles

• Design and development of fixed-wing, rotary-wing, and hybrid UAS platforms.
• Autonomy levels, endurance, payload capacity, and launch/recovery methods.

Payloads

• Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR): EO/IR sensors, synthetic aperture radar, signals intelligence.
• Lethal and Non-Lethal Effects: Munitions, electronic warfare payloads, decoys.
• Other Subcomponents (may be grouped or separate): Batteries, motors, landing gear, and other integral components.

Software

• Mission planning and control software compatible with the Army’s Uncrewed Vehicle Control (UVC) system and Software Product Development Services (SPDS) initiatives.
• Autonomy algorithms, data processing, and user interface design.

Integration

• Methods and standards for integrating payloads into air vehicles.
• Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) compliance and interoperability considerations.

Manufacturing

• 3D Printing: Additive manufacturing techniques for UAS components.
• Large-Scale Manufacturing: Capability to produce UAS platforms given a Technical Data Package (TDP).

Architecture

• System architecture supports scalability, redundancy, and resilience.
• Network integration and communication protocols.

Repairs and Sustainment

• Maintenance strategies, supply chain management, and lifecycle support.
• Field repair capabilities and turnaround times.

Technical Data

• Level of technical data available for government use, including Software Specially Negotiated License Rights – (SNLR).
• Willingness to provide detailed technical documentation beyond generic statements.
• Right to repair.
• Production Facility Information
• ISO certifications, current production throughput, lead times.
• Capacity to scale production in response to increased demand.

Design and Manufacturing Roles

• Indicate whether your company is interested in:
• Design only
• Manufacturing only
• Both design and manufacturing

Additional Services

• Any other services or capabilities relevant to UAS development and deployment.
• Participation in UVC Software Factory/SPDS
• Interest and capability to participate in the Army’s UVC Software Factory and SPDS initiatives.

The hosts invite industry to participate in this groundbreaking concept by registering for the event.

Full details are available at sam.gov.

Photo by SPC Breanna Bradford