One of these things featured a color selected after someone went to Home Depot and picked a Ralph Lauren paint called "Coyote Brown".  
A public contest to design new versions of these things saw entries from the then-makers of them, Crye Precision, but a cheaper in-house design from the Natick Research Center was chosen instead.  One of these things featured a color selected after someone went to Home Depot and picked a Ralph Lauren paint called "Coyote Brown".  These things include MARPAT and the recently rolled-out (*) Scorpion W2.  Some of these things introduced in the early 2000's suffered from a problem called isoluminance.  Consistency in these things was mandated by the 2014 Defense Authorization Act.  Five billion dollars were spent to develop and implement a "universal" one of these things known as UPC, which was criticized for making people easier to spot, despite the futuristic-looking pixelated pattern which made its wearers "more cool" than a rival branch.  For 10 points, name these pieces of clothing, often in camouflage patterns, worn by GIs in battle.
A public contest to design new versions of these things saw entries from the then-makers of them, Crye Precision, but a cheaper in-house design from the Natick Research Center was chosen instead.  
US military uniforms [or US Army combat uniforms or ACU or US Marine uniforms; accept US military camouflage until mentioned]