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WirelessDevNet.com Press Release
Special Operations Apps Flexes Power of New Mobile Devices at Fort Bragg
SOFEX 2011 -- Special Operations Apps (SOA), the applications innovator for warfighter mobile devices, touchscreens, laptops, and smartphones, will introduce its newest technologies to the Special Operations community at this week's SOFEX 2011.
"SOA is attending SOFEX to allow SF Operators and SF leaders to let us know exactly which Apps they need — immediately," said K. Dominic Cincotti, president and founder of Special Operations Apps.
"No other company in existence produces Apps specifically with SF Operators in mind," Cincotti said.
SOF Operators will then be able to purchase and use the Apps they suggest through the SFAppStore.com beginning in 2012.
"The SOA Apps process works this way: Former Operators like David Mullins, an SF Operator on four continents throughout his career, translates needs into task orders for the SOA development team," Cincotti said. "That team includes Dr. Craig Hunter — who has already won Best App honors in the Apple Store — and Samuel Thompson, who worked on NASA's unmanned Mars exploration, before working on SOA concepts and solutions.
Among the SOA advances on display at SOFEX are CamoScience HD™ — the application that now integrates the high-definition video of the Apple iPhone 4S for camouflage on demand, executed direct to garment and for next-generation adaptive concealment, known as GEOINT Camouflage™.
The integration of CamoScience HD™ with the new Apple device came 96 hours after the iPhone 4S was made available to the public. CamoScience HD™ was unveiled 17 days ago at GEOINT 2011 in San Antonio, TX.
Cincotti cited a recent interview given by Brigadier General Edward M. Reeder, Jr., the commanding general of the U.S. Army Special Forces Command (Airborne).
Gen. Reeder, speaking in Special Operations Technology magazine's October issue, stressed the desire for "miniature individually used UAVs"; "lightweight long-range communications and situational awareness systems and linkage"; and "smartphones with supporting Mobile Mesh Network capability."
"We're here to create Apps that precisely meet those needs," said Mark Tocci, vice president of business development, who along with Mullins, is at SOFEX speaking directly with Operators.
"SOA is leading the way as mobile smart devices go military-wide, said SOA chief technology officer Cathlena Spencer. "SOA Apps are integrating technologies as disparate as Pedestrian Dead Reckoning, Human Geography, and Crowd Sourcing into what we call U2-DOP2 — Unit/User Defined Operational Pictures and Perspectives," Spencer said.
"SOA is now creating the SF App Store, set to launch in 2012 with the Operator's "15 Must-Have Apps," Spencer said.
The SF App Store will include new applications made within SOA development protocols that take full advantage of emerging smart-devices capabilities, including geo-locating, augmented reality, 3D mapping, high-definition video, and time-stamping.
The SF App Store will also serve as the commercial gatekeeper for useful or overlooked Apps created by other developers that can meet specific Operator requests. The SF App Store will also serve as an incubator responding directly to need statements and wish lists from Operators, she said, including Apps for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Apps that shorten the informational pipeline in C4IT — command, control, computers, communications, information technology.
SOA is in talks with App developers, Operators with specialized needs, and defense companies looking to utilize mobile smart devices and special operations Apps to remain current in the latest wave of technology revolutions.
"SOA develops Apps for Apple iOS and the Android OS," Cincotti said, "like Dell's Mobile Security for the Android platform, which just yesterday received approval on defense networks by the Defense Information Systems Agency."
SOFEX 2011, sponsored by the Association of Special Operations Professionals (ASOP), features more than 80 exhibitors, across a range of corporations with products of interest to the SOF community.
Special Operations Apps (SOA) is the only dedicated mobile-Apps company attending SOFEX.
SOA's CamoScience™ has been featured on CNN and NBC, and Cincotti was recently interviewed by Popular Science magazine.
CamoScience HD™ was created as the result of a cluster of successive patent-pending technologies, including Photo-Real™, Photo-Stealth™, and simultaneous multi-spectral adaptive camouflage processes, introduced by Cincotti in 2007, 2009, and earlier this year. This camouflage was designed initially for unique Special Forces requirements by SOA's independent affiliate, MW Research and Development, Inc., also founded by Cincotti.
To develop CamoScience™, Cincotti and his team partnered with Dr. Craig Hunter, who, with his brother Todd, founded Hunter Research & Technology. The Hunter brothers are renowned as the minds behind the iPhone 4's Theodolite App, the best-selling, award-winning navigation application.
Most recently, physicist Samuel Maxton, who helped provide solar-power solutions for NASA's unmanned Mars explorations, has come aboard to contribute to SOA's burgeoning array of new technologies.
At SOFEX, SOA will also demonstrate the mobile CM-4 Solar Charging Station, developed by Coyle Industries, a breakthrough for tactical solar needs, Cincotti said. Attendees are welcome to charge their smart devices for free.
"This teaming of Coyle Industries and Special Operations Apps shows that mobile solar power is now both tactical and practical for SOF needs," Cincotti said.
Coyle Industries founder Mack Coyle said, "Using CamoScience HD, we can actually produce better camouflage/concealment for mobile solar assets."
According to Cincotti, by creating new Special Operation Apps for smartphones that allow for precisely tracking the sun throughout the day, "Special Forces can generate power in remote or off-the-grid locations that SOF Operators routinely find themselves in."
The CM-4 Solar Charging Station is:
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completely mobile
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requires only one-person to set-up
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completely silent operation
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easy to use, requires no training
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practically zero maintenance — solid state
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low cost
The two-day SOFEX event also includes presentation of the ASOP Man of the Year Award to David H. Petraeus, named by President Barack Obama as director of the Central Intelligence Agency and sworn into office September 6. Petraeus, as a four-star general, led coalition forces in Iraq, Afghanistan, and served as head of U.S. Central Command, among many other posts. Petraeus is scheduled to receive the award Nov. 2.
At SOFEX 2011, Lieutenant General John F. Mulholland, Jr., commander of U.S. Army Special Operations Command, will receive ASOP's Colonel Aaron Bank Award, given annually to the individual contributing the most to the advancement of the objectives and philosophy of Special Operations Forces as set forth by the "Father of Special Forces." The award was presented Nov. 1.
At Special Operations Apps, Mark Tocci, a former Ranger and a patent-pending inventor, is vice president of business development. David Mullins, a former Special Forces Operator with counter-terrorism and HALO experience, leads in-house subject matter experts. Spencer, SOA's chief technology officer, led the MW R&D commercial-application team for the earliest iteration of CamoScience™. Cincotti, in addition to his duties at Special Operations Apps, continues as president of MW Research and Development, Inc.
Special Operations Apps is a privately held company based in Wilmington, NC, strategically situated between Fort Bragg and Camp Lejeune, and convenient to Virginia Beach, VA.
For further information: 650-209-0762 (Zero-SOA)
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