Follow the link below to vote for your favorite camo pattern. The winner will be chosen by popular vote. Full details at the link.
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SSD Camo Design Contest Phase III
Monday, April 18th, 2011Army Releases Camo Improvement Solicitation – Updated
Friday, April 15th, 2011The Army has finally released the Camouflage Improvement Effort solicitation. The solicitation closes at 1PM on 31 May 2011. In 45 days potential offerors must submit their design concepts. Following this will be a multi-phase effort to search for a new family of camouflage patterns consisting of woodland, desert, multi-terrain or transitional patterns in addition to a possible fourth pattern for field equipment such as armor and packs. The final decision won’t be made for two years and Soldiers will be stuck in the current ill-suited UCP for that entire time as well as well into a transition period. Based on this course of action, we could see UCP being used for another three to five years despite the availability of more effective patterns.
US Army Camouflage Improvement Effort Solicitation
Notes to industry and those that fancy themselves camouflage barons: The Army is placing a lot of emphasis on technical performance. From the solicitation, “Technical Area is the most important of all the areas; the Technical Area is more important than the Management/Production Readiness Area; the Management/Productin (sic) Readiness Area is significantly more important than the Contract/Cost/Price Area; the Contract/Cost/Price Area is more important than the Past Performance Area; the Past Performance Area is more important than the Small Business Participation Plan. Area I – Technical Factor A is more important than B. Area II – Management Factor A is significantly more important than B, and Factors B and C are of equal importance. To receive consideration for award, a rating of no less than “Acceptable†must be achieved for all areas. Offerors are cautioned that the award may not necessarily be made to the lowest price offered.” You are not going to win this on lowest cost. So make it count.
Camo Design Contest Enters Phase II
Friday, April 15th, 2011We have now received all of your entries and will be preparing them over the weekend for Phase III which consists of voting. Phase III will begin Monday morning and run through Friday. You will only be able to vote once to preclude voter fraud. The most popular design will win the prize.
Today is the Day
Friday, April 15th, 2011We know that the Secretary of the Army signed off on the Army Camouflage Improvement Effort earlier this week and at yesterday’s media roundtable hosted by PEO Soldier BG (P) Peter Fuller, he stated that it would be released today. So, the question is, what time and how will the delays affect the timeline? In the big scheme of things these few weeks are really pretty minor. Rather, industry’s concern is if they will still have as long as was originally mentioned to complete their submissions.
On another camouflage note, look for the phrase, “befowled globe” to rear its head soon.
Only 1 Day Left to Enter the Camo Design Contest
Thursday, April 14th, 2011Make sure you get your entry in before tomorrow morning at 1200 GMT. Your entry doesn’t have to be computer generated. Take a couple of cans of krylon to an old bed sheet and take a photo of your handiwork if you don’t have computer skillz. The winner will be determined by a popular vote of your peers (kind of like how UCP was chosen, except there was no vote) next week. That $500 gift card to the winner from GSS is sounding pretty good.
Check out the full rules here.
Just Two Days Left to Enter the Camo Contest
Wednesday, April 13th, 2011Feeling creative? Well channel that energy in a positive direction by creating a new, unique camouflage pattern. Then, send it in to SSD for your chance to win a $500 gift card from GSS.
View the full rules here.
Camo Design Contest
Friday, April 8th, 2011The Schtick
We feel we’ve waited long enough for the Army to release their Camouflage Improvement Effort solicitation so we thought we’d get things cooking with a little camo contest. The idea is this. You design a new, original camo pattern and send it to SSD (Don’t submit somebodyelse’s work). On 15 April we collect all of the patterns, and over the weekend, post them as a poll to allow you, the readers to vote on your favorite pattern. Every original pattern that is submitted will be posted in the poll. Submissions are due 15 April so this gives you one week to develop your pattern and submit it.
To the winner goes the spoils!
SSD sponsor, GSS has generously offered a $500 gift card to the winner. If that doesn’t motivate you to participate, we don’t know what will.
The rules are simple
1. You must own the pattern you submit, it just has to be a camo pattern, and can be for any environment but remember, the winner will be chosen by a vote of SSD readers (cool is king here)
2. You must submit it in .jpg format but we don’t care if you do it on the computer, draw it by hand, stencil it with krylon, or even finger paint it; Just make sure we get it in .jpg format
3. We just want the pattern by itself, not applied to something
4. Make it as big as you want to show your pattern. We aren’t printing it on fabric so it doesn’t matter how long the pattern is or if it repeats
5. The submission phase of the contest closes at 1200 GMT on 15 April, 2011
6. Submit your pattern to camo@soldiersystems.net
7. You must be 18 to enter
8. Void where prohibited
9. Neither Soldier Systems Daily or GSS are responsible for improper entries or entries that violate other’s IP, nor are they responsible for the outcome of the poll used to determine the winner
10. One entry per person
By entering you retain all rights to the design but you give rights to GSS and SSD to use the pattern for promotional purposes.
SSFN Releases ExtremePRO Camo
Monday, April 4th, 2011With the impending Army Camo solicitation, interest is up in all things camouflage. Slovenia’s School for Survival from Nature’s Land Camo is now available under the ExtremePRO brand.
For more info go here.
