3D Agile and Jake Platform Story

3D Agile Inc. is a C Corporation, majority owned by Integrated Vision Inc, set up to operate the “incubation period” of the Jake™ Modular Technology Platform supported by Operation American Agility.

3D Agile owns the intellectual property rights and program positioning of the military and homeland security market sectors of the Jake™ platform. As such, 3D Agile starts out as the leanest of companies, efficient to initiate the campaign of Operation American Agility to accomplish innovation for, and with, our young soldiers that can happen no other way.

3D Agile capitalizes on proven strengths in rapid product development and is positioned to support program growth through an existing network of resources, partners, suppliers and management leaders. This team shall match the tasks at hand and perform at the highest levels of execution of the program, speed and integrity. We see the American people as our customer and shall be working for, and with, you.

Operation American Agility draws on 3D Agile and Integrated Vision's ready access to proven development teams, technologies, production and test facilities.

3D Agile’s engineering and development resources bring focus on vehicle systems and high power density hybrid drive-train packaging, working in concert with teams of chassis, electronics, military systems integration and attachments developers. We shall combine contributions of the electronics and communications systems of L3-Com and robotics of iRobot and technologies of other defense leaders (When we create movement on the Jake™ platform, these technology leaders will match movement with contribution of their technologies with view towards the larger programs American Agility opens up.)

The team bringing forward the “next generation” Jakes has proven capabilities in being ‘forward leaning’, continually generating innovative solutions with our Soldiers and Marines that are Soldier-centric, a core mission of American Agility.

This expertise, with this platform and proven methods of innovation can rapidly fill the gap between the footsoldier and the Humvee: A catalyst to further tactical innovation with our Soldiers and Marines, equipment required to meet new strategies for a changing battle space and peacekeeping missions.

Integrated Vision’s unique team has worked with our US Special Forces at Ft Bragg, gotten “inside the heads” of our young soldiers, and designed for how they think and move. Over six years in prototyping and brainstorming with our major defense technology labs, they have developed a new system of systems. It radically amplifies what our Soldiers and Marines can carry on patrol and into the alleys. It radically amplifies their maneuver agility and dispersion. It is tactical adaptation into the future.

The program is logistically advanced and addresses a spectrum of missions and environments in combat, security, peacekeeping and civilian engagement in urban settings. A very unique program for assessing 12 units teamed with Humvees was structured within the US Army Rapid Equipping Force in 2005 with the Jake program laying significant groundwork for the US Army in manned/unmanned ground maneuver concepts. Though then stalled for varied reasons that are common within the dynamics of a process heavily affected by larger existing program interests, the Jake was termed the “Mobile foxhole”, the “Category Three Exoskeleton” and “Warrior Transformer”. Of 23 defense and commercial industry submissions to a 2005 US Army BAA “Vehicle for Individual Soldier Protection” that the Jake program of Integrated Vision defined, the Jake was determined by the US Army to be “the only innovation warfighter platform”, yet is now suspended due to other priorities.

Though having broad support, this program is accomplished to date with no government funding.

But what has been a tough path for us uniquely allows an opportunity today for America: a program with the highest level of freedom for innovation and evolution with our young Soldiers. This generation is educated, talented and capable. Their video-gamer intuitions are techno-based and convergence of this with today’s technologies and a new platform architecture opens amazing opportunities.

The website of American Agility and 3D Agile tells how this program can generate solutions to the frustrations we all feel in wanting to provide our troops tools to hold the upper hand. We invite you to explore the challenges 3D Agile faces and help us in a program of rapid adaptation that is: