{"id":1532,"date":"2012-05-22T16:00:18","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T20:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/?p=1532"},"modified":"2012-05-29T15:31:52","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T19:31:52","slug":"special-operations-forces-industry-conference-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/?p=1532","title":{"rendered":"Special Operations Forces Industry Conference 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I just got back from the Special Operations Forces Industry Conference in Tampa, FL.\u00a0 This was the second year we attended the Exhibit Hall.\u00a0 There is some cross-over from military operations to police services, especially in the SWAT arena.\u00a0 Funding for military experimentation often leads to technological developments that trickle down into law enforcement.\u00a0 While I doubt our TAC van will be sporting a Dillon Aero Titanium Gatling Gun anytime soon, I am always interested in seeing new products for the Warfighter.\u00a0 You never know when some of these things will be the latest rage for those of us defending the streets.<\/p>\n

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"I don't think this supply requisition will go through."<\/p><\/div>\n

I was particularly pleased to speak to a few old hands that are ex-law enforcement and now company reps for defense firms and manufacturing interests.\u00a0 It seems these retired officers are lending their practical input into the creative mix.<\/p>\n

I had one discussion with an LEO veteran who was now with an equipment designer.\u00a0 The talk waxed nostalgic about how our SWAT teams all looked like British 22nd SAS in the late 1980’s with us “kitted out” in Basic Black:\u00a0 balaclavas, jumpsuits, flapped holsters for 9mm pistols, and Heckler and Koch MP-5’s.\u00a0 Things certainly have changed.<\/p>\n

I saw a few interesting products that I’ll post articles about in the coming days…<\/p>\n

Randall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just got back from the Special Operations Forces Industry Conference in Tampa, FL.\u00a0 This was the second year we attended the Exhibit Hall.\u00a0 There is some cross-over from military operations to police services, especially in the SWAT arena.\u00a0 Funding for military experimentation often leads to technological developments that trickle down into law enforcement.\u00a0 While I doubt our TAC van will be sporting a Dillon Aero Titanium Gatling Gun anytime soon, I am always interested in seeing new products for the Warfighter.\u00a0 You never know when some of these things will be the latest rage for those of us defending the streets. I was particularly pleased to speak to a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,308,48,306],"tags":[309,310,835,307],"class_list":["post-1532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-officer-safety","category-sofic","category-swat","category-technology","tag-military-and-swat","tag-police-technology","tag-sofic","tag-special-operations-forces-industry-conference"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p28xkp-oI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1532"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1620,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions\/1620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}