<P> In May 2014 , the Army unofficially announced that the Operational Camouflage Pattern ( OCP ) would replace UCP on the ACU . The original `` Scorpion '' pattern was developed at United States Army Soldier Systems Center by Crye Precision in 2002 for the Objective Force Warrior program . Crye later modified and trademarked their version of the pattern as MultiCam , which was selected for use by U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan in 2010 . After talks to officially adopt MultiCam broke down over costs in late 2013 , the Army began experimenting with the original Scorpion pattern , creating a variant code named `` Scorpion W2 '' , noting that while a pattern can be copyrighted , a color palette can not and that beyond 50 meters the actual pattern is `` not that relevant . '' The pattern resembles MultiCam with muted greens , light beige , and dark brown colors , but uses fewer beige and brown patches and no vertical twig and branch elements . On 31 July 2014 , the Army formally announced that the pattern would begin being issued in uniforms in summer 2015 . The official name is intended to emphasize its use beyond Afghanistan to all combatant commands . The UCP pattern is planned to be fully replaced by the OCP on the ACU by 1 October 2019 . ACUs printed in OCP first became available for purchase on 1 July 2015 , with deployed soldiers already being issued uniforms and equipment in the new pattern . </P>
<P> In May 2014 , the Army unofficially announced that the Operational Camouflage Pattern ( OCP ) would replace UCP on the ACU . The original `` Scorpion '' pattern was developed at United States Army Soldier Systems Center by Crye Precision in 2002 for the Objective Force Warrior program . Crye later modified and trademarked their version of the pattern as MultiCam , which was selected for use by U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan in 2010 . After talks to officially adopt MultiCam broke down over costs in late 2013 , the Army began experimenting with the original Scorpion pattern , creating a variant code named `` Scorpion W2 '' , noting that while a pattern can be copyrighted , a color palette can not and that beyond 50 meters the actual pattern is `` not that relevant . '' The pattern resembles MultiCam with muted greens , light beige , and dark brown colors , but uses fewer beige and brown patches and no vertical twig and branch elements . On 31 July 2014 , the Army formally announced that the pattern would begin being issued in uniforms in summer 2015 . The official name is intended to emphasize its use beyond Afghanistan to all combatant commands . The UCP pattern is planned to be fully replaced by the OCP on the ACU by 1 October 2019 . ACUs printed in OCP first became available for purchase on 1 July 2015 , with deployed soldiers already being issued uniforms and equipment in the new pattern . </P>
when does the new army uniform come out
when does the new army uniform come out
summer 2015
summer 2015