Emissary Development’s Mlok NANO mount is designed to carry the Multitasker Tools NANO tool on board their rifle. It grants instant access to the NANO that can be used to zero optics, lasers or any other accessory that can take a flat driver or aimpoint two prong driver.
They worked with to incorporate their Multitasker Tools Spaceframe Docking Slot (the unique channel geometry) into the mount for a perfect fit.
Coming soon.
San Diego, CA, June 15, 2021 – Today, Blue Sky Network announced SkyLink, a dual-mode data management solution for land, air, sea, and IoT applications. This comprehensive software and hardware configuration is specifically engineered to capture and disseminate mission-critical information from any location and display it in a secure online portal.
“The hardware is small-form and stackable to meet the size, weight, and power requirements of any mission,” said Ron Hume, CTO of Blue Sky Network, “However, it is not just about the data collection, but how that data is received. That’s what makes the cloud portion of our SkyLink solution so invaluable.”
“SkyLink is multifaceted and configurable in form and function,” stated Tucker Morrison, CEO of Blue Sky Network, “It’s a solution born of our partners, customers, and our prospective customers’ operational needs. We are excited to see SkyLink come to life and support remote missions across the globe.”
“Developed using licensed Iridium® core technology, SkyLink’s versatility enables it to serve a variety of remote, mobile, and global operations for maritime, aviation, land, IoT and more,” says Bryan Hartin, executive vice president, sales and marketing, Iridium. “This management solution will operate on the Iridium Certus® 100 service, offering a powerful combination of small size and high performance that will make it easier and more affordable for enterprise grade voice, remote monitoring, and data management, while enabling reliable coverage anywhere in the world.”
SkyLink by Blue Sky Network offers both Iridium Certus service and local GSM/LTE connectivity for continuous, end-to-end sensor reporting, asset utilization, IoT/M2M monitoring, and two-way messaging. The lightweight, multi-stack hardware is designed for any fixed-mount, portable, or mobile application and offers a range of service configurations for mission-focused safety, efficiency, versatility, and affordability. An optional, rechargeable backup battery offers up to 6 hours of continuous power for off-grid sites, non-powered vessels, power outages, or remote operations.
Pre-orders for SkyLink begin today, June 15, 2021, with hardware distribution planned for September 2021. All pre-orders are eligible for early access to the SkyLink Cloud Services portal, live testing data, and training materials. For more information on the SkyLink solution, visit www.blueskynetwork.com/skylink.
Haley Strategic Partners (HSP) is looking for a seasoned salesperson to fill the position of Director of Sales – Government, Military & LE. This position will be responsible for strengthening and expanding HSP’s presence in the government and military sectors as well as the law enforcement communities. The right candidate must possess a proven track record of successful sales of hard goods/soft goods to government and military customers via direct sales and through dealers, distributors, and qualified partners. Moreover, the candidate is expected to have established customer relationships at various divisions within the government and military sectors. The position will report directly to the COO. Ideally, the candidate will be located in the Phoenix Metro area as HSP is a fluid fast paced entrepreneurial company.
The right candidate for Director of Sales – Government, Military & LE is expected to perform the below tasks, at minimum.
• Create yearly/quarterly strategic sales plans to meet revenue and profit targets. This shall include general prospectus, go-to-market strategy, cost/benefit analysis, product-to-market alignment, GSA schedule oversight, timeline to revenue, among other related tasks.
• Take complete ownership of sales process; lead generation, product positioning, sales opportunity evaluation, quote generation, deal closing and post-sales assistance.
• Manage relationships with all
o U.S. Department of Defense branches
o Federal, State and Local government agencies
o State and Local LE agencies.
• Be able to prepare and deliver presentations and equipment demonstrations with aim to provide product education to prospective customers.
• Assist product development by proactively querying customers about requirements, top challenges, new opportunities, trends, etc. The role is expected to consistently gather this information and submit to management.
• The Director is expected to assume responsibility and oversight in preparation and timely completion of RFIs, RFPs, RFQs, white papers, security and regulatory forms and other related documentation required to advance market penetration.
• Take ownership of customer problems to oversee definitive resolution and satisfactory closing.
• Attend and/or host tradeshows, road shows, and other sales related events
• Work directly with HSP’s marketing communications team to increase brand exposure.
• Participate in internal meetings as required by management.
Requirements:
• Minimum 5+ years in government sales experience or equivalent on procurement side
• Military clearance a plus
• Self-Starter
• Established relationships with U.S. Department of Defense branches an absolute plus
• Knowledge of military acquisition and procurement processes a must
• Self-motivated
• Proven sales closer
• Must be willing to travel as required
• Articulate communicator
• Excellent presentation skills
• Excellent negotiation skills
• Professional demeanor
• Team player
• Ability to work autonomously without field supervision
• Creative, detailed oriented with excellent planning and organizational skill
• Disciplined and problem-solving demeanor with an appetite for challenges to continuously build knowledge
• Computer skills including MS Office and CRM Systems, Accounting Packages etc.
• Valid driver’s license and personal credit in good standing
Compensation
• Compensation package is highly competitive and will be commensurate with experience.
Send resumes here.
Yes, it’s called the SureFire. Zippo’s multitool incorporates most importantly, a flint wheel ignition (includes 1 flint), along with
420 High-carbon steel cutting tool,
15″ of wax-coated red fire paracord, a double cut saw blade, flathead screwdriver, bottle opener, bail and
dual flint storage & tinder grater.
And finally, the SureFire is cheap, at just $19.95.
www.zippo.com/products/surefire-multi-tool
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — Army-funded research has resulted in the development of a programmable fiber that could transmit data from Soldier uniforms.
Researchers at the Army’s Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology developed the first fiber with digital capabilities. The fiber can sense, store, analyze and infer activity when sewn into a piece of clothing.
“This groundbreaking research, with other research underway at the ISN, could revolutionize Soldier uniforms,” said Dr. James Burgess, ISN program manager for the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, now known as DEVCOM, Army Research Laboratory. “We could outfit our Soldiers with uniforms that could generate power, give them vital information about their physiology and environmental exposures, provide their location to their team and alert someone if they incur an injury. All of this could be done with very little increase in weight carried by the Soldier.”
Ultimately uniforms with this technology could power sensors, store and analyze the collected data and transmit data to outside sources.
The research, published in Nature Communications, describes how the team created the new fiber. The team placed hundreds of square silicon microscale digital chips into a preform that created a polymer fiber. By precisely controlling the polymer flow, the researchers created a fiber with continuous electrical connection between the chips over a length of tens of meters.
Until now, electronic fibers have been analog, carrying a continuous electrical signal, rather than digital, where discrete bits of information can be encoded and processed in 0s and 1s.
The fiber itself is thin and flexible and can pass through a needle, be sewn into fabrics, and washed at least 10 times without breaking down.
“When you put the fiber into a shirt, you can’t feel it at all,” said Gabriel Loke, MIT doctoral student. “You wouldn’t know it was there.”
Yoel Fink, professor in the departments of materials science and engineering and electrical engineering and computer science at MIT said that digital fibers expand the possibilities for fabrics to uncover the context of hidden patterns in the human body for physical performance monitoring, medical inference, and early disease detection.
A digital fiber can also store a lot of information in memory. The researchers were able to write, store, and read information on the fiber, including a 767-kilobit full-color short movie file and a 0.48-megabyte music file. The files can be stored for two months without power.
The fiber also takes a few steps forward into artificial intelligence by including, within the fiber memory, a neural network of 1,650 connections. After sewing it around the armpit of a shirt, the researchers used the fiber to collect 270 minutes of surface body temperature data from a person wearing the shirt, and analyzed how these data corresponded to different physical activities. Trained on these data, the fiber was able to determine with 96 percent accuracy the activity in which the person wearing the shirt was participating.
Adding an artificial intelligence component to the fiber further increases its possibilities, the researchers say. Fabrics with digital components can collect a lot of information across the body over time, and these lush data are perfect for machine learning algorithms, Loke said.
With this analytic power, the fibers someday could sense and alert Soldiers in real-time to health changes like a respiratory decline or an irregular heartbeat, or deliver muscle activation or heart rate data during training exercises. It could also provide data on any toxins Soldiers are exposed to, the length of time they are exposed, and monitor any effects those toxins have on their physiology.
The fiber is controlled by a small external device so the next step will be to design a new chip as a microcontroller that can be connected within the fiber itself.
“When we can do that, we can call it a fiber computer,” Loke said.
The U.S. Army established the MIT Institute for Nanotechnologies in 2002 as an interdisciplinary research center to dramatically improve protection, survivability and mission capabilities of the Soldier and of Soldier-supporting platforms and systems.
In addition to the Army, the, National Science Foundation, the MIT Sea Grant and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency supported this research.
By US Army DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory Public Affairs
Paid to Raid offers a whole slew of MARSOC oriented morale items, but this one caught our eye and a former Raider gave us a big thumbs up when we sent him the link.
This rashguard is made from an elastic/poly blend with a Coyote torso and classic Frogskin Camo sleeves with USMC at the front and the WWII Raider insignia at the back.
Offered in Medium through XXXLarge.
www.paidtoraid.com/product/raider-rash-guard
These days it’s quite common to drop a pre-fabricated building, configured as a Secure Compartmented Information Facility into a deployed location, rather than setting up a tent which is vulnerable to a wide variety of hazards, both environmental and man-made.
ADS Inc offers multiple solutions including the Armag A.R.C. Vault (Armored, Rapid-deployment, Compartmented Vault), a custom manufactured, modular SCIF providing a significant level of TEMPEST, ballistic, and forced entry protection that meets or exceeds ICD 705 and SAPF requirements. The A.R.C. Vault is manufactured to customer size specification (from 200 sq ft, to 10,000 sq ft) from continuously welded 1/4″ steel and designed for rapid deployment, offering turn key, plug-and-play, and rapid integration.
To learn more about the various solutions offered by Atlantic Diving Supply, visit www.adsinc.com/news/the-importance-of-scif-rooms-in-the-military
Keep your eye out for Ferro Concept’s release of The D.O.P.E. (Diverse Operations Personal Equipment) Front Flap on June 16th at 1200 Mountain Time.
Based on their standard ADAPT Kangaroo Front flap, it is configured for “double stack” but you can remove the rigid thermoplastic internal divider. This simple feature allows the use of their Kangaroo Pocket – Large which converts the DOPE into a large, single cell general-purpose pouch.
Along with The DOPE Front Flap are five new Kangaroo Inserts: Half Pocket, Small Pocket, Large Pocket, Triple 556, and Triple 762.
Here are some examples:
