The Army's latest effort to rapidly deploy new innovations to the battlefield is a new spin on crowdsourcing. The service is testing a new concept that asks soldiers to identify combat equipment challenges, but lets the public help solve them.It's a project of the Rapid Equipping Force (REF), whose mission for the past dozen years has been to quickly deploy small quantities of new gear to solve tough challenges, and to do it within 90-day cycles.  CLICK HERE FOR THE REST OF THE STORY