Dates: October 6-8
Where: KOA Campground Virginia Beach, VA
Tickets: 420.00 for 2 day pass
Where to buy the tickets: www.devongrubebbqclassic.com
Devon Grube BBQ Classic Fundraiser
September 22nd, 2017BioLite FirePit – Now On Kickstarter
September 22nd, 2017BioLite has a very successful history of using Kickstarter to launch products. Their latest effort is the FirePit. It’s a smokeless wood-burning device that cooks your meals and gives you a front-row seat to everything going on inside your fire.
There are 51 airjets which inject the fire with oxygen along key locations thanks to the fan located inside the USB-rechargeable orange power pack. This promotes uniform temperature and gas mixing to burn the wood as effeciently as possible in order to reduce smoke.
#1: Get an efficient burn with way less smoke than a conventional fire pit
#2: Enjoy the feeling of a 360-degree floating fire with the FirePit’s X-Ray Mesh
#3: Burn charcoal or wood embers for a hibachi-style grilling experience
Bonus: Kickstarter backers receive a free Solar Carry Cover ($60 value).
www.kickstarter.com/projects/biolite/biolite-firepit-see-fire-not-smoke
USSOCOM Small Business Roundtable
September 22nd, 2017The United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) is hosting a Small Business (SB) Roundtable in Tampa, FL on 17 October 2017 from 2:00pm-4:00pm, with a no host social from 4:00pm-5:00pm. Government participants will be the USSOCOM Acquisition Executive, Director of Procurement, and Director of the Office of Small Business Programs.
SB Roundtables are intended to allow small businesses to discuss barriers to doing business with USSOCOM, provide input as to what USSOCOM is doing well, and provide suggestions for ways to make doing business with USSOCOM easier. These roundtables are not meant to be an opportunity for firms to present their capabilities to USSOCOM, or to receive a forecast of upcoming requirements.
USSOCOM would like to have participation from all socio-economic categories and a variety of industries. Space is limited to 25 individuals; therefore, participation is restricted to one participant per small business.
The criteria considered when selecting attendees (in no particular order and not listed in order of importance):
1. Socioeconomic status (they would like representation from each socioeconomic category (SB, SDB, WOSB, HUBZone, VOSB, and SDVOSB);
2. Products and/or services provided (they lean more towards firms that provide what the command buys, but want a variety of industries represented);
3. Experience with USSOCOM (they would like a mix of experienced and inexperienced firms);
4. The last time your firm has attended a SB Roundtable (they want to afford all firms an opportunity to attend a roundtable);
5. When your request to attend was received; and
6. Where your firm is located (they would like a mix of local and non-local firms).
Interested parties visit, www.fbo.gov.
UPDATED – CSASS Update
September 22nd, 2017Naturally, if word gets out that the Interim Combat Service Rifle effort has stopped midstream, folks are going to wonder about other 7.62mm programs, especially CSASS.
Despite a contract award in early 2016 to H&K for a G28 variant, the US Army has yet to field any M110A1 Compact Semi Auto Sniper Systems. So far, the program has no funding. It’s not dead; it just doesn’t have money to buy anything.
However, a directed requirement for 6069 G28 rifles, which are essentially M110A1s minus the optic, is still rumored to be moving forward, albeit rather slowly. These rifles will be fitted with a different optic and used in the Squad Designated Marksman role. While the Army will not have a widespread capacity to bring 7.62 hate, the DMR guns and existing M110s, built by Knight’s Armament Co, offer a limited capability.
However, CSASS is still alive and well with the US Navy and US Air Force, who are reportedly still on track to field several thousand of the rifle system.
UPDATE
Within an hour of this post being published, The Army Contracting Command published an award on FedBizOpps entitled, “Compact Semi-Automatic Sniper System Engineering Change Proposal”.
The U.S. Army Contracting Command – New Jersey (ACC-NJ), on behalf of the Project Manager Soldier Weapons (PM-SW), awarded a modification to incorporate Engineering Change Proposals to the Compact Semi-Automatic Sniper System.
If I were a betting man, that ECP turns the CSASS into a DMR by eliminating the Optic and Suppressor as well as lengthening the Barrel, which results aggregately in lowering the price and producing the desired variant of the G28 specified in the Directed Requirement. If it includes a full-auto function, ICSR could still happen as an ECPed CSASS and offer the Army the 7.62 H&K G28, it wants.
We will update you as we learn the details of this ECP.
FirstSpear Friday Focus – Molded Speed Tab Kit
September 22nd, 2017
The all new Molded Speed Tab Kit from FirstSpear was designed to give the user a low profile and light weight solution for adding a secondary measure of retention to magazine and pistol pockets when desired. 2-molded speed tabs and 2- 20” pieces of color matched bungee are included with the kit.
The speed tabs work exceptionally well with the all new FirstSpear MultiMag Rapid-Adjust Pockets offering a variety of bungee placement options for different pocket set ups from 5.56 to .308 to AK47 to dual pistol magazines and more. Speed tabs will work with just about any rifle or pistol pocket that offers attachment points on the front and back of the pocket.
Designed to be gripped and pulled from either direction even while wet or muddy.
Now available in Black, Coyote, Tan499 (mutlicam), and Foilage (manatee grey).
Order any MultiMag Rapid-Adjust Pocket this weekend and get a free Molded Speed Tab Kit included.
You Never Know Where They’ll Show Up
September 22nd, 2017
Taaken in Dubrovnik, Croatia by my friend Kel.
SureFire Field Notes – Bill Blowers
September 21st, 2017SureFire Field Notes is a multi-segment informational video series with tips and techniques from subject matter experts of all backgrounds. In this episode, Bill Blowers of Tap-Rack Tactical discusses his setup for running a ballistic shield.
MDM 17 – National Molding Two-Point Release Evil Twin
September 21st, 2017National Molding is always working on new products.
The Two-Point Release Evil Twin is a direct pull cable release system which can be built into an armor vest or other system.
