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New MYSTERY RANCH Medic Pack: MOLE

Tuesday, July 28th, 2020

Designed for requirements around their winning bid in the Norwegian TCCC program, the MYSTERY RANCH MOLE fills the demand for a scaled-down, feature-rich medical pack. Every square inch of this pack was designed with function in mind.

At 22L, the MOLE is similar in size, but has a slimmer profile than its popular predecessor, the RATS pack. It is built with custom spec’d 500D CORDURA® with Teflon® and PU coatings for maximum durability, UV and weather protection and finished off with IR-compliant YKK® zippers. The MOLE is highly configurable with its carrying options and internal organization, adapting to changing mission profiles.

It features removable shoulder straps and waist belt, along with a system for attaching directly to body armor, and a top handle for multiple carrying options. Also noticeable is the incorporation of the removable Stick-it pouch for stowing a helmet, jacket or other bulky object on the outside. Underneath that are a sheath for trauma shears and dual tourniquet holders. The clamshell top lid opens widely for full-viewing access to contents.

Interior removable panel for single-access items.

External shear pocket with elastic on either side for quick access items (tourniquets).

The main compartment splays open via one-handed access from its two-zip design, allowing full access to the removable internal pouches inside the pack. An additional, internal handle keeps from fighting the top lid when hanging the pack to work out of.

The internal main compartment is lined with loop fuzz which allows you to customize its five removable medical pockets. Each pocket has clear vinyl windows and internal elastic bands to keep items tidy. An extra removable panel is included for even faster access to certain materials such as tourniquets, gauze and/or gloves. Two inner sleeves along the sides provide secure slots for splints or other long items.

Here’s a quick video detailing the MOLE:

MYSTERY RANCH really stayed focused on versatility and quick access on this pack. The MOLE has already been very popular in Europe as it launches here, looks to be a consideration for your combat trauma essentials. Check out the full line of medical military packs and accessories at MYSTERY RANCH.

We are pleased to collaborate with our friends at North American Rescue for kitting out our medical packs for these photos and videos. Please contact NARescue customer service to order medical contents as shown.

*Contents not included with MR pack.

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AirBoss Defense Group Awarded Contracts Valued at Over $123 Million to Support the PPE Requirements of the U.S. Strategic National Stockpile and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Monday, July 27th, 2020

LANDOVER, MD (July 27, 2020) – AirBoss Defense Group (ADG), which is focused on the design, development and manufacturing of American-made, proven, commercially available personal protective equipment (PPE) that protects front-line workers and defense personnel, announced today that it has been awarded more than $123 million in contracts to supply PPE to U.S. Government agencies.

ADG been awarded a $121 million contract by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) – Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), for 50,000 American-made FlexAir™ Powered Air Purifying Respirators (PAPR), 3,000,000 High Efficiency Filters and related accessories, including spare protective hoods, that will be part of the inventory for the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS). The FlexAir PAPR is designed to enable medical providers and first responders unencumbered protection over extended periods of time, while providing critical medical care. Deliveries under the contract to HHS are expected to be completed over the next nine months.

ADG further announced that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has placed a sustainment order of $2.55 million with ADG for 60,000 high efficiency (HE) filters and 20,000 protective hoods to establish a contingency stockpile of equipment for the ongoing fight against COVID-19. This sustainment order supports the continued use by VA medical personnel of the over 10,000 American-made FlexAir PAPR systems that had been delivered to the agency earlier this year. Deliveries to the VA are expected to be completed over six weeks, beginning in mid-August.

Patrick Callahan, CEO of ADG, stated: “These new contracts underscore ADG’s ability to quickly respond to the COVID-19 crisis by focusing the entire company on delivering FlexAir PAPR systems to front-line workers across the United States. These orders to supply the PPE needs of the SNS and the VA will bolster U.S. capabilities to respond to public health hazards and ensure that the United States has a more robust domestic capability to support the federal response to future emergencies.”

“To this end, ADG has increased staffing to support the urgent needs of the U.S. federal government and is manufacturing PAPR systems at facilities in Landover, Maryland; Auburn Hills, Michigan; Scotland Neck, North Carolina; and Charleston, South Carolina,” Mr. Callahan noted.

The FlexAir PAPR system is a compact, lightweight respirator system powered by an onboard battery in a waist-mounted blower, designed and manufactured in the United States. The flexible design permits the use of two high-efficiency particulate filters that are designed to provide a 99.7% protection level against particulates, aerosols and biohazards, including the COVID-19 virus.

The PAPR order for the SNS follows an earlier Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) order for 100,000 PAPR systems that was placed to respond to the immediate threat posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. ADG has since successfully delivered over 90% of the initial order and remains on track to complete this original contract on time, by the end of July 2020. Additional future follow-on orders for sustainment filters, hoods and accessories are anticipated. The VA order builds upon ADG’s proven record of dependability as the PAPR system provider of choice for federal agencies.

ADG’s PPE products have been used by various branches of the U.S. government for over 20 years. In addition to the above HHS and VA contracts, ADG has received over $15 million in non-governmental orders for PPE during the current pandemic. ADG’s emergency response equipment and PPE are utilized by the U.S. Department of State, Office of Strategic Medical Preparedness, FEMA and CDC infectious disease treatment centers.

The Company provides protective equipment to emergency first response teams and hospitals in hundreds of U.S. cities, as well as over 30 countries worldwide. ADG successfully responded during the MERS and Ebola outbreaks, by providing critical protective equipment to government and civilian first response customers. ADG will continue to engage in the response to the COVID-19 outbreak through the rapid delivery of domestically manufactured PPE and patient isolation systems to the first-responder community.

For more information, please visit www.adg.com.

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MATBOCK Monday RAPID IFAK Deployment Pouch

Monday, July 27th, 2020

RAPID IFAK DEPLOYMENT POUCH

Good morning and Happy MATBOCK Monday!

Weighing in at 7oz The Rapid IFAK Deployment pouch was specifically designed to support post assault operations when dealing with an active shooter. The pouch is designed to hold 7 Phokus Research Group “Shield Kits” for immediate care as well as a MATBOCK J-LIFT or 5 Shield Kits and an S-LIFT). It can be worn as a stand-alone fanny pack or cross chest attachment, MOLLE or mounted to an operators belt. The versatile design allows for endless possibilities to support the operator’s needs.

Don’t forget to tune in on Monday at 4:30 PM EST as we go live to demo the the Rapid IFAK Deployment pouch.

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Special Operations Aid & Rescue – Technical Austere Medical Evacuation Course

Wednesday, July 8th, 2020

The TAME course is right around the corner. It’s SOARescue’s first course since the start of things opening back up. If you’ve ever provided or will provide enroute Care in the non-standard environment this is the course for you. If critical care, flight and tactical medicine had a baby this is the course that would come of it. Seats still available. Contact us for payment plans or agency discounts. Some of what to expect:

-Basic flight physiology

-Gas laws/ effects on patients

-Operating around standard and non-standard evacuation platforms

-Unique aspects of providing care in an aircraft

-Basic hoisting and rope work related to movement of personnel and casualties

-Overview of Anatomy and Physiology

-Management of complex airways to include surgical intervention

-management of hemodynamically unstable patients to include the use of blood products and vasoactive agents

-Advanced respiratory management to include tube thoracotomy placement and management

-Ventilator fundamentals and practical application of strategy.

-Ventilator management of a complex patient.

-Pharmacology overview

-Utilization of medication pumps

-Advanced monitoring of patients and casualties.

-Obtaining and interpreting lab values

-Patient packaging and loading unloading

-Hand-off strategy and documentation

-basics of rope rescue

www.soarescue.com/events/technical-austere-medical-evacuation-tame-concord-nc-tame-nc-0720-02

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Domestic N95 Mask Production Expected to Exceed 1 Billion in 2021

Sunday, June 28th, 2020

WASHINGTON — Thanks to work by the Defense Department’s COVID-19 Joint Acquisition Task Force, U.S. industry is expected to greatly increase the production of N95 masks next year, the task force’s director said.

During a House Armed Services Committee hearing yesterday, Stacy Cummings told lawmakers that nationally, the U.S. was consuming about 50 million N95 masks each year. During the COVID-19 crisis, demand for masks increased substantially to about 140 million during a 90-day peak-use period.

DOD investments to help domestic industry ramp up production of those masks and other equipment will help ensure that in the future the U.S. will better be able to meet demand for personal protective equipment with domestic production, she said.

Based on the investments made by the department, Cummings told the House panel, an increase in production of 450 million masks a year will be attained by October, with a rate of more than 800 million masks per year by January.

“Starting in 2021, we anticipate our total domestic production to be in excess of a billion per year,” Cummings said.

Ellen Lord, the undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, told lawmakers that increasing domestic production capabilities has been a focus of the department.

“In order to decrease our dependence on foreign suppliers for medical resources, DOD has focused on increasing domestic industrial capacity and capabilities,” she said. “To that end, we executed some $284 million in industrial expansion efforts during the first two weeks of May 2020. Reconstituting domestic production or creating new production that shifted offshore years ago often requires capital expenditure, capital equipment expenditures, retooling and retraining of the workforce.”

Lord also said DOD has been focused on maintaining the health of the defense industrial base during the COVID-19 pandemic. The DIB includes a wide array of businesses that produce weapons, equipment and supplies for the U.S. military.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses that make up the DIB suffered as other U.S. businesses did, Lord said. Should some of those businesses fail as a result of COVID-19-related disruptions, it might result in the department not being able to procure important defense-related supplies, equipment or weapons, she added.

Lord said the department is using $688 million of CARES Act funding to address impacts to the DIB by directly offsetting financial distress and providing investments to regions most severely affected.

She also said that increased communication between the department and the DIB were key in allowing defense officials to better understand where the industry was hurting most, and where the need existed most. When first she stepped into the A&S leadership role in 2017, she said, she set up quarterly meetings with DIB representatives to better assess their needs. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated that communication.

“When the pandemic hit and we saw how catastrophic it could be to our defense industrial base, what we did was just really amped up those engagements,” she said. “So starting on March 17, we had our first [teleconference] with industry, and we broadened beyond just the three industry associations that we worked with, to really start including nontraditionals and others.”

The number of industry representatives involved in those meetings also increased, Lord said, “For multiple weeks, we had calls three times a week. One of those calls per week was focused on small business, and we listened to what the problems were,” she said. “As a result of that, … a lot of the leadership of A&S listened to what the issues were, and we tried to start taking the first small steps.”

Lord said as a result of that communication, the department worked to simplify how to do business with the military, including raising the threshold for micropurchases and increasing the progress payment rate from 80% to 90% for large businesses, and from 90% to 95% for small businesses.

“This change will infuse an estimated $3 billion in cash to all levels of the DIB,” Lord said. “Further, the department has partnered with the major primes to ensure this increase in cash makes its way throughout the supply chain.”

By C. Todd Lopez, Defense.gov

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High Speed Gear Releases ReFlex Vehicle Mount

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020

SWANSBORO, N.C. – June 23, 2020 – High Speed Gear® is proud announce the expansion of the ReFlex™ line with the ReFlex Vehicle Mount, a companion accessory for the ReFlex IFAK System.

The ReFlex Vehicle Mount is designed specifically to mount the Med Roll to the back of most detachable headrests. The elastic cinch strap design allows the Med Roll, or similarly-sized pouches/items, to be quickly pulled out to the side without disengaging the side-release buckle. This mounting platform can also hold a tourniquet with a 3” elastic loop for easy vehicle storage.

“This is just a logical accessory that brings the ReFlex IFAK System directly into the everyday,” said Bill Babboni, HSGI® vice president of sales and operations. “The ReFlex Vehicle Mount is exactly what you need to keep your medical gear within easy reach.

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Med Mag PillPack from SOAR Rescue

Thursday, June 18th, 2020

These days, almost everyone carries some from of IFAK, but the contents are generally focused on trauma. There’s not a lot of stuff you’ll use day-to-day, and even if there is, it’s all packed so tightly, you’d never get it all back together if you took out just a couple of tablets.

Enter the Med Mag PillPack from SOAR Rescue. It’s one of those things you didn’t know you needed until you had it. It’s packed with stuff you’ll need and meant to be used. The 10mil thick bag features a side, waterproof zipper for easy access. Plus, it’s sized to fit in an Ammo pouch, which is easy to get ahold of and tends to be a pouch chosen based on personal preference.

Contents:
• Acetaminophen x 4
• Ibuprofen x 4
• Diphenhydramine x 4
• Loperamide x 4
• Bismuth Subsylicate x 2
• Multi-System Cold x 4
• Burn Cream x 2
• Triple Antibiotic Cream x 4
• Hydrocortisone Cream x 4
• Band-Aids x 4
• Eye Drops x 2

shop.soarescue.com/products/the-medmag-pillpack

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ADS Inc – Remote Health Solutions – SDNA-1000 COVID-19 Saliva-Based Test Kit

Wednesday, June 17th, 2020

ADS Inc is the exclusive distributor of Remote Health Solutions’ SDNA-1000 test kit to the Department of Defense. it is the only FDA EUA at-home COVID-19 saliva-based test kit for sale directly to U.S. government entities.

KEY HIGHLIGHTS:
-The only FDA EUA-authorized Saliva -Collection Device for COVID-19 testing
Proven to stabilize and protect -COVID-19 RNA during specimen transport in all extreme
temperatures over 10 days
-Engineered to reduce at-home user and self-collection errors
-Sample collection is done through saliva (spit) as opposed to nasal swab
-97.50% sensitivity
-100% Positive Predictive Value (PPV)
-97.56% Negative Predictive Value(NPV)
-24-hour laboratory turnaround time (not including shipping time)

For a quote, visit www.adsinc.com.

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