This article doesn't mention AJX but we know that AJX has...

This article doesn't mention AJX but we know that AJX has already wont the FR contract on the FRACU and they are now simply testing cut and material combinations.  This article gives a good insight into the process and some guidance on when production (ie income for AJX) will kick off.

My read of this is that commercial production will really only kick off in late 2018 (2 more years)

"As a control in the uniform trials, some soldiers wore the Army’s standard FRACU.

The Army conducted a total of four uniform user evaluations over the past year and a half and three of those were focused purely on material. Soldiers all wore the same ACU design, the stripped down version, but made with different fabric combinations.

Textile chemist Melynda Perry, the Jungle Fabric and Architecture Development Effort project lead for Natick, said the lab data on the materials, combined with soldier feedback, would help the Army create requirements for a new fabric it would design in 2017......

Once Natick analyzes the uniform materials, lab data, and user evaluations, it will report findings to PEO Soldier as well as the Maneuver Center of Excellence.

As Perry noted, the Army will take what it learned and design a material and a uniform during 2017. Natick aims to hold final user evaluations in either the fall of 2017 or the winter of 2018.

Perry said Natick would present the final user evaluation results to PEO Soldier in the winter or spring of 2018.

The boots could be arriving even sooner. Natick has also been analyzing boot tests and soldier feedback, and will report in the fall to PEO Soldier.

The next year or so will consist of getting documents and requirements approved by organizations from the Maneuver Center of Excellence (which develops requirements) to Army Requirements Oversight Council, as well as some limited testing and user evaluations of the final design.

Adams said the Army hopes that by the first fiscal quarter of 2018, which starts Sept. 1. The Army will have completed its engineering and design phase and moved on production contracts. Multiple vendors will produce the Army-owned design."

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