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FirstSpear Formally Launched

Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

Scott Carver, FirstSpear founder has announced the formation of his new company concentrating on specialized load carrying and armor systems for warfighters. He has assembled one hell of a team and we wish him our best. Below is the press release in its entirety.

FirstSpear Utilizes Unique Technology Advancements and Focus to Provide Enhanced Capabilities for Warfighters and Professional Users

Saint Louis, MO, January 11, 2011 – Today, President and CEO, Scott Carver, announced the launch of FirstSpear, a company focused on the rapid design, development and delivery of Integrated Personal Protective Equipment and Enhanced Load Carriage Solutions for warfighters and professional users. The company will begin new product roll-outs in early 2011 and is already accepting orders for production.
FirstSpear’s founders have a legacy of designing, developing and producing some of the most widely used and sought after tactical equipment for military and law enforcement. Carver’s newest venture will focus on providing our men and women in uniform the next generation of mission-critical equipage. Based upon an unsurpassed understanding of operational requirements and dedication to ensuring high-speed fielding, FirstSpear has a unique capability for custom product design and innovative manufacturing. Built to meet the highest quality standards, FirstSpear’s products are engineered to be light weight, withstand harsh combat conditions, and maintain their durability over time, no matter the mission.

“FirstSpear is about empowering our professional users with solutions that exceed expectations, in any environment, during any mission profile,” said Jonathan Laplume, FirstSpear’s Vice President for Strategy and Development. “Our products utilize advanced design, lightweight materials, and our first-hand knowledge of user needs to provide our warfighters with a consistent combat advantage.”

“Our user’s needs are constantly evolving, FirstSpear’s vision is to evolve with them in real time,” said Carver. “FirstSpear integrates past experience and proven technology with a unique advancement in materials, configuration and production efficiency, to offer the most advanced load carriage solutions possible.”

FirstSpear, LLC is dedicated to rapidly delivering innovative individual equipment systems to professional users. To follow the launch of FirstSpear, LLC visit www.first-spear.com.

FirstSpear was founded in 2010 by a team of experienced industry professionals and former U.S. servicemen, with the mission of rapidly delivering innovative personal protective equipment and enhanced load carriage solutions to US and allied warfighters and professional users. With over 20 years of hands-on manufacturing experience with tactical equipment, Scott Carver has proven experience and dedication to meeting the warfighter’s evolving mission needs. FirstSpear’s uniquely focused research and development team is lead by former SOF Infantryman and present industry design specialist Jonathan Laplume.

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SOTech VIPER Program Info

Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

We received this from SOTech and thought it would be good for our readers to see why they started the VIPER program.

The staff of SOTech want to take the opportunity of the coming of a New Year to mark the successful completion of a year’s work and hard fought establishment of its Veterans Industry Program for Employment Reintegration (VIPER) charity. The program started as a group of veterans in industry wanting to help out their less fortunate brethren. The Veterans Administration Hospital in West Los Angeles had over 1000 veterans with afflictions related to tours of duty from Vietnam to the current conflicts, stagnating in a domiciliary. In the name of SPC Clayton Taylor, a soldier who died by his own hand, Jim Cragg decided to start VIPER in order to provide support for returning vets and draw attention to their psychological needs.

Cragg is the CEO of SOTech / Special Operations Technologies Inc and was Taylor’s Officer in Charge prior to Taylor deploying to Afghanistan. About half of SOTech’s administrative staff are OEF and OIF Veterans. VIPER may have started as a good will effort, but it has grown into a program employing a significant number of patients, enabling them to move towards job proficiency and self reliance away from hospital grounds. These heroes work on SOTech projects manufacturing and assembling medical projects for units deploying into combat. These veteran warriors, many of whom felt a sense of abandonment after being injured and leaving government service, know that they are part of a team supporting our troops in the field and helping to bring them home alive. Expanding on the mission of service, VIPER vets are sewing recycled cloth shopping bags for local cities. They have also embarked on the Battle Bear program, assembling camouflage teddy bears that deployed soldiers can adorn with their patches and badges and send home bonding them with their families.

SOTech will be on booth #20113 for SHOT SHOW 2011

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The U.S.-South Korea trade pact puts a bullet in DuPont’s ballistic fabrics business

Sunday, January 2nd, 2011

Fortune magazine did an excellent article on the US-Korea Free Trade Agreement. It seems that our number one textile export; Kevlar which is an aramid will be at a disadvantage to Korean produced fabrics. What’s worse, DuPont has been embroiled in lawsuits with one Korean producer for several years due to alleged theft of intellectual property.

Unfortunately, despite that fact that our country is at war and we rely heavily on aramids, it looks like our trade negotiators sold the industrial base out on this one.

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Stuff We Didn’t Write About

Saturday, January 1st, 2011

The MM Action Figure

Ruger Scout Rifle

An Update on the Medium Rucksack

ADS Job Listings

Part II – How to Establish a Win-Win Relationship with a Cut and Sew Shop

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GSS Awarded GSA Schedule

Thursday, December 30th, 2010

You may know of them by their formal name, or the more user friendly GSS Gear. But either way you say it, you can also say that they are now on GSA. They have been awarded a Federal Government General Services Administration (GSA) Schedule contract, number GS-07F-0192X.

The GSA’s supply schedules are contracts that allow Federal and Executive agencies, the Department of Defense, and other authorized institutions and organizations to purchase products and services from commercial suppliers at pre-negotiated rates. For a purchaser, using a GSA contract eliminates potentially cumbersome and lengthy bidding processes while assuring quality and consistency. It also helps to ensure that purchases are made within the confines of the procurement rules.

“We are very pleased that our manufacturers’ products are now available through GSA,” says Emily Whittaker, CEO of GSS Gear. “Being awarded a GSA schedule means that we will be able to streamline the procurement process for our customers while ensuring that the price will be fair.”

Military, Federal, State and local agencies can obtain information about GSS Gear’s GSA Schedule by visiting GSA Advantage at www.gsaadvantage.gov or by contacting GSS Gear directly at 877.MOR.GEAR.

www.gssgear.com

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Ahhh…Now It All Makes Sense

Thursday, December 30th, 2010

So we’ve been sitting around the office for weeks trying to figure out Hypersealth came up with SMARTCAMOâ„¢, that color changing camo material they recently teased us with.

Then, we find out that Dr. Joseph Resnick, Lt. Col. Timothy R. O’Neill, Ph.D (U.S. Army, Ret.) and Guy Cramer (of Hyperstealth fame) have owned mineral rights for 95% of the side of the moon that faces Earth, the polar regions and 50% of the far side of the Moon since 2007. And that isn’t to mention their mineral rights on Mars!

So this has got to be it, they have found some rare mineral on the Moon that makes SMARTCAMOâ„¢ work. Now the question is, how did they get it back to Earth?

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How to Establish a Win-Win Relationship with a Cut and Sew Shop

Thursday, December 30th, 2010

Tom of Bearse USA has a great blog on the cut and sew industry. He writes on a variety of topics but his latest article, “How to Establish a Win-Win Relationship with a Cut and Sew Shop” brings up some excellent points for those considering outsourcing.

www.tacticalgearsewing.com

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Tactical Distributors In-Store Promo

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010

Tactical Distributors is looking to spread some holiday cheer by holding an in-store promo. When you shop in their store front you will get a -FREE- TD BIG Logo tee with $50.00 purchase. In addition they are offering a 10% percent discount on total purchase. Their warehouse is right out back so anything you see on the website is available for a showroom purchase. This promo is running now until December 24th at 12:00 noon. They will be serving hot coco so be sure to ask for a cup.

Their address is:
476 Viking Drive
Virginia Beach, VA
23452
1-866-916-6905

www.tacticaldistributors.com

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