A revelation about the Army's current camouflage pattern came from Maj. Brett Lord, from the Maneuver Center of Excellence at Fort Benning, who spoke frankly about UCP. "The uniform I am wearing doesn't do the best job of concealing our soldiers," he said.
In it's place will be a set of uniforms with three new patterns; a transitional, a woodland and a desert pattern. Industry will have till early spring 2011 to submit their patterns for an evaluation and wear test.
UPDATE: The plan calls for three submissions from industry and two from the government. Initially, I thought this meant Soldiers could end up in MARPAT or AOR, it means that Natick is working on a couple of patterns that will go up against the industry patterns. The currently fielded patterns will only be used as baselines.
There's plenty more in Lance's article, so go get an Army Times this morning and find out what your next uniform may look like and how the Army plans to develop it.
