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Safariland Introduces A-TACS to Their PROTECH Tactical Line

Thursday, March 17th, 2011

Safariland, a BAE Systems line of business, has announced a partnership with Digital Concealment Systems, LLC to exclusively offer the A-TACS® (Advanced Tactical Concealment System) camouflage pattern within the body armor category.

“We are excited to add the A-TACS line of camouflage offerings to our PROTECH brand,” said Dan McNeil, Category Director for Armor Tactical products. “Our partnership with A-TACS is another step in the right direction of providing products that meet and exceed the requirements of law enforcement officers and agencies serving our communities every day.”

A-TACS will be available as a color option for all of PROTECH’s tactical carriers and soft tactical armor accessories such as yokes, throats, collars, biceps, groin protectors and pouches.

For more information on PROTECH’s offerings visit www.safariland.com/bodyarmor.

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Criticism of SSD’s Coverage of the Army Family of Camouflage Patterns Effort

Monday, March 14th, 2011

We received a letter last week from a reader criticizing our coverage of the Army’s Family of Patterns effort. First off, it is important that you know that the author is involved commercially in the development of camouflage patterns. It is also important that SSD readers realize that we are in no way affiliated with the US Government and do not represent the views of the military but rather function as a news outlet serving the tactical industry. While we appreciate the time it obviously took to craft this letter, it seems as if the writer is expecting SSD to explain Army decisions. Since we are in no way involved in the acquisition process this is impossible. However, we will do our best to address the concerns of this writer from our perspective, based on our attendance at Industry Day and our interaction with Government and industry over the past few years. Hopefully, this article will help to expand your understanding of the upcoming Family of Patterns solicitation to be released later this week. Due to the length of the letter please read the rest of the story. (more…)

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Predator BDU Shipping A-TACS Pre-orders

Monday, March 14th, 2011

According to Tactical Fanboy Predator BDU is already shipping their A-TACS ACUs from Propper! That’s right, ahead of schedule. How often can you say that? This also means that they have them in stock.

www.predatorbdu.com

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Camo Boffins Get Ready!

Thursday, March 10th, 2011

Just in case the previous presolicitation message that was released via FedBizOpps on 28 Feb wasn’t enough, the Army issued ANOTHER presolicitation yesterday for the “U.S. Army Camouflage Improvement Effort” (Solicitation Number: W911QY-11-R-0008). According to the notice, the actual solicitation will drop on 18 March, 2011 so nothing has changed there or anywhere else for that matter. Naturally, it’s a Friday which invariably means no weekend for those working at firms who will be competing. It seems there is an unwritten rule that all deployment orders and major solicitations are issued on Friday afternoon. To those involved; gird your loins. It seems that someone is excited enough about this to issue two presolicitations in as many weeks.

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Battlefield Airmen on the Job

Thursday, March 10th, 2011

We like seeing official Air Force photos of Battlefield Airmen applying airmanship to the tasks at hand. In this case we see U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Stacy Maxey, a command air mobility liaison officer with Task Force CROM, giving a landing zone safety officer course U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, and Romanian army personnel at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Lagman, Afghanistan.

You will note the combination of AF Digital Tigerstripe, Army UCP and Army OCP (MultiCam) clothing and equipment on the Airmen in the photo. Expect this to be the norm for at least the near future as deploying Airmen transition to OCP.

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Principles of Camouflage

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011

For those of you didn’t make it to the Army Camouflage Improvement Effort Industry Day last year, we thought we’d share a little tidbit with you that you would have missed. LTC Tim O’Neill, (USA, Ret) presented a briefing entitled “Principles of Camouflage”. Just click on the first page of the briefing below and you will be up to speed on how to create your own camo pattern.

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US Army Camo Improvement Effort Presolicitation

Tuesday, March 1st, 2011

The Army issued a presolicitation yesterday for their Camouflage Improvement Effort. According to the notice, the Army continues to seek out the same things; three patterns, government use of the patterns rights, yada, yada, yada. According to the notice, the actual solicitation will be released 18 March, 2011. Folks in industry were getting itchy so it’s good to see that the Army put something out. Additionally, I am glad they have settled on a term to describe what the are doing although “effort” is somewhat unconventional in the acquisition world. It’s not a full program (although signature management should be) and it’s a bit more than a project at this point. Unfortunately, “effort’ doesn’t exactly instill confidence that it has staying power. I hope once this thing gets some legs under it they get to describe it in more enduring terms.

Read it and weep. www.fbo.gov

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CamoScience App Coming in April

Sunday, February 27th, 2011

Released at last week’s AUSA Winter Symposium in Orlando, FL, the CamoScience(tm) App from MW Research and Development, Inc will be relased in April. It is designed for use with smartphones and mobile touchscreens (including the upcoming iPad 2) and converts photos into camouflage designs.

CamoScienceâ„¢ is a photo application that turns site-specific photography into what its inventor calls “Photographic Camouflage.”

“‘Photographic Camouflage’ is the term I coined four years ago to describe any ‘camera-derived’ camo design,” said K. Dominic Cincotti, MW Research and Development President.

“Right now, we’re focused on special ops and first responders Apps,” Cincotti said. “They know what challenges they face and how quickly they want their problems solved. We also have our eyes on app developers who, like us, are interested in innovative problem solving. “If you’re in one of those categories, get in touch,” he said.

CamoScienceâ„¢ will also let users design Photographic Camouflage into a touch-screen grip for the iPad 2. Touchscreen grips provide functional, hand-traction grip to keep your iPad 2 safely in your grasp while mobile. This is accomplished with an extremely thin, adhesive graphic “skin,” with a unique frictional, micro-terrain.

We have almost no details about this technology other than their press release. We will update you as we get additional information.

HD@militarywraps.com or alternate for App Dev: CamoScience@gmail.comwww.militarywraps.com

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