After a week of voting we have a winner and it is pattern “Z” by William S with his aptly named Rocky Cliffs camo. He will receive a $500 gift card from our friends at GSS.
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Camo Design Contest Final Results
Monday, April 25th, 2011Warrior Expo West Breakout Session Update 
Monday, April 25th, 2011
The breakout session list for Warrior Expo West has just grown with the announcement that Guy Cramer President & CEO of HyperStealth Biotechnology Corp will speak on “The New Science of Stealth”. This is very exciting news in that Hyperstealth will most assuredly be submitting a family of camouflage patterns in response to the Army’s Camouflage Improvement Effort solicitation.
The breakout sessions also include Dr. Brad Bennett CAPT, US Navy (Ret.) from the Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care’s talk on “TC3 – Now and in the Future” as well as ADS’s own Brad Anderson’s seminar on “Navigating DOD Contracting Vehicles”.
In addition to a full MRO section of the expo, attendees will have an opportunity to try out the Joint Forces Extrication Kit in person.
For full information make sure to visit www.ADSinc.com/warriorexpo.
SSD Camo Design Contest Voting Closes
Friday, April 22nd, 2011Voting has now closed for the SSD Camouflage Design contest sponsored by GSS. Unfortunately, we detected some voting anomalies so we will not announce the winner until Monday morning. Thanks to everyone who submitted patterns and to those who voted as well.
The Last Day to Make Your Vote Count
Thursday, April 21st, 2011New Patterns from Tiger Stripe Products
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
Ever since my days as a kid, I’ve always liked the Tiger pattern. Maybe the old versions were more art than science, but they were definitely distinctive. Over the ensuing years, Tiger Stripe Products started to produce recreations of the Viet Nam advisor pattern and then began to develop new, unique patterns culminating with the initial modern USAF blue tigerstripe pattern. While the Air Force chose to go a slightly different direction, TSP hasn’t stopped their work. In addition to a couple of patterns developed for specific clients they have just released images of their newly reworked All Terrain Tiger patterns. In addition to the version above, they have also produced “digital” variants. You will notice that the colorway is very familiar as it is proving the be the most effective for use with transitional patterns based on the 2009 camo testing.
Check the entire line out at www.tigerstripeproducts.com.
Get Out The Vote! Only 48 Hours Left
Wednesday, April 20th, 2011SSD Camo Design Contest Phase III
Monday, April 18th, 2011Follow the link below to vote for your favorite camo pattern. The winner will be chosen by popular vote. Full details at the link.
Army 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.
