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Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2008 Ron Storm	COTS Power Supplies: The Solution or the Starting Point? With the proliferation of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products being offered for military use since the 1990s, it is all too easy to be lulled into believing that COTS products are always the most economical. That is not always true.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2006 Richard Kirk	Flexible I/O: Meeting the challenge of a standards-based market Increasing standardization, however, is taking place against a backdrop in which customers are ever-more demanding.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2006 John Keller	The new breed of major systems integrators Industry consolidation in the printed circuit board business is creating what looks suspiciously like a new breed of major defense-systems integrators.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2005 Estro Vitantonio	Military and aerospace component manufacturers learn from the commercial market Military and commercial component suppliers traditionally have done business in different ways. Not so much anymore, however. And the changes are all for the better.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2006 Mike Macpherson	Embedded COTS computing suppliers must understand the concept of Evolutionary Acquisition System planners need partners who will develop products that align with their product development schedules so that they can bring out new technologies at the appropriate increments.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2010 John Long	When High Performance Really Matters in Mil-Aero: A Comparison of ATCA and VPX Solutions ATCA systems are shipping in volume, while VPX is still overcoming interoperability issues.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2006 John Keller	The Re-Emergence of Mil-Spec Technology We've seen the end of extremes that have marked the COTS movement over the past decade, thanks to the often-painful real-world lessons learned from military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2008 John McHale	Embedded Computing Specialist Curtiss-Wright to Acquire VMETRO The acquisition would make the Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing (CWCEC) division even more of a giant in the defense embedded electronics market.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2007 John McHale	Customizing to Their Needs Commercial off-the-shelf technologies have streamlined components in defense applications, but some mission-critical situations call for products that must be designed from the ground up to aid war fighters on the battlefield.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2004 Dave Garcia	COTS Systems Streamline Costs for Military Suppliers An adroit military supplier would do well to focus on the areas that are central to its strategy and then streamline its business by outsourcing the non-value-added processes to trusted partners.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2007 John Keller	Military Officials Take a Hard Look at Their Needs for COTS Rugged Rack-Mount Computers With the advent of a commercial computing industry that has come into its own and has surpassed military systems in performance, ease of use, and price, converting to COTS for most military applications seems an obvious choice.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2008 Courtney E. Howard	Computational Complexity Single-board and mezzanine-board computers deliver expanded functionality in a reduced size.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2007 John Keller	Remembering Motorola Embedded Computing Motorola Inc. is selling its Embedded Communications Computing (ECC) business to Emerson Electric Co. to strengthen the company's position in the embedded computing industry.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2007 Jeff Milrod	Redefining COTS Signal Processing FPGA frameworks are necessary to provide true commercial off-the-shelf solutions.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006 John McHale	Sense of Urgency Among Primes Drives VME Market, While VITE 46 Highlights Company Roadmaps Designers of VME single-board computers for military applications say their market is strong because prime contractors feel pressure to field programs quickly, which forces them to use commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) technology.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2006	Rugged VME Power Supply for Mission-Critical Applications Behlman Electronics' VME-1000 power supplies offer low-cost COTS and modified COTS solutions for VME-based mission-critical applications.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2006 Courtney E. Howard	Covert communique coming through loud and clear COTS suppliers in the defense industry collaborate with systems integrators to further electronic-warfare and signals-intelligence technologies.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2006 John McHale	Proposed GE Fanuc/SBS merger creates mixed feelings among industry observers The merger might spark more consolidation by making other companies look for further acquisitions or mergers to be number one in the market.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2006 Ron Storm	Form-Fit-Function Replacement Power Supplies Breathe New Life Into Old Systems The redesign and manufacture of form-fit-function replacement power supplies present unique and significant opportunities to address any shortcomings in the original design, as well as a chance to improve system performance and reliability.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2006	VME Growth Outpaces 2005 Projections in Military COTS Market The market for commercial-off-the-shelf VME slot cards reached $408.7 million in 2005 for the North American and European markets combined, according to analysts.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2008	VME market to grow 10 percent next year, VITA director predicts Much of this market growth is anticipated be in new VME technologies and in maintaining legacy programs in the military commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) and industrial market.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2006 John Keller	Could RoHS Mean the End of COTS as we Know it? The electronics industry's move away from using solders containing lead is setting up a clash between private industry, both here and in Europe, and the U.S. military that may well lead to the end of the COTS era as we have come to know it.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2009 J.R. Wilson	Lead-Free RoHS on Military Electronics Procurement Worldwide environmental requirements to use lead-free solder continues to squeeze military system designers.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008 John McHale	COTS Integration and Acquisition is Focus of Military & Aerospace Electronics Forum Dr. Stephen M. Jarrett, chief technologist of the U.S. Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems (SPAWAR) will discuss solutions to COTS integration challenges and other issues facing defense COTS electronics designers.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2005	Navy Improves Hawkeye Computers with Elma Bustronic Engineers at Northrop Grumman Corp. will use Elma's VME and PCI adapters to provide mechanical interfaces for new system cards and a custom backplane on the Hawkeye 2000 aircraft.
Linux Journal September 30, 2006 Ibrahim Haddad	Linux and Open Source in Telecommunications This article examines the impact that Linux and open-source software are having on the telecommunication industry, technology trends moving toward open and standards-based platforms and the .orgs that are active in promoting carrier grade base platforms.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2007 John McHale	Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Ronald c. Jost to Keynote Military & Aerospace Electronics Forum Conference in March Session topics include: COTS integration panel discussion, COTS acquisition, software-defined radio and the Joint Tactical Radio System program, IPv6 and its influence on military systems, information assurance, and more.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2005	VITA maps out future path for VMEbus technology Today, VITA's mission includes not only promoting VMEbus, but also promoting the very concept of open technology as embodied in the many standards currently under development within the VITA Standards Organization.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2009 John Keller	Distributed Power and Space Applications Are Major Trends in Power Integrated Circuits Designers of high-reliability power integrated circuits say they are focusing on space power applications, because many of even the most demanding military power applications can use commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) power electronics.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2005 John Wemekamp	The sea change to serial-switch fabrics As battlefield communications become increasingly distributed and network-centric, a sea change has begun in the design of embedded computing systems for defense and aerospace applications
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2004 John McHale	European Militaries Show Steady Appetite for American Electronics Designers of military electronics systems in the U.S. find that growth in the European military market is steady, but import/export regulations and new security measures tend to stymie companies that do not have European-based manufacturing.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2006 Mike Murphy	Lead-Free Solder Regulation Unfairly Given a Bad Name for Military Applications Letter to the editor: Why doesn't nonlead solder work for the military?
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2010 Courtney E. Howard	By Land, by Sea, by Air: Rugged Computers Are Everywhere Military and aerospace organizations around the world tap novel rugged mobile computers for mission-critical applications.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2009	Carlo Gavazzi Introduces Rugged Air-Cooled Enclosures for Avionics and Vetronics Applications Carlo Gavazzi is introducing a series of re-circulating air-cooled rugged ATR enclosures for commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) printed circuit boards for extreme temperature, vibration, humidity, and contaminants.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2005	Lightweight Rugged COTS Chassis That Meets Mil-Specs Elma Electronic is offering a low-weight rugged 7U 12R1 COTS shielded chassis for military, aerospace, and defense applications.