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Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2008 John McHale	Misunderstanding of COTS can hurt the military, says embedded computer expert Commercial off-the-shelf military embedded suppliers have done well in recent years, but many misperceptions still remain about the term COTS and how it affects the final product deployed to troops in the field
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2005 Peter Cavill	COTS: The Reality The prognosis for COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) solutions in the defense market is positive. Where potentially damaging geographical divergences existed, a new unity of vision is becoming apparent.
IEEE Spectrum November 2008 Robert N. Charette	What's Wrong with Weapons Acquisitions? Escalating complexity, a shortage of trained workers, and crass politicization mean that most programs to develop new military systems fail to meet expectations.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2004 David Johnson	Let's be Open About COTS Building complex military systems from commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components is a great idea, but does it work?
National Defense May 2010 Stew Magnuson	Army Seeks to Quiet Skeptics As it Tries New Acquisition Strategy One year after Defense Secretary Robert Gates canceled the Army's Future Combat Systems program, service leaders say they are moving forward with a new acquisition regime.
National Defense August 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Army's Next Combat Vehicle: New Beginning or FCS Sequel? The Army is racing toward a September deadline to present a convincing case to the secretary of defense that it should receive funds to begin designing a new combat vehicle next year.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2006 Courtney E. Howard	Wheeled Wonders and Road Warriors Major defense industry vendors and contractors are contributing to the advancement and success of combat vehicles designed to take advantage of the best technologies available now and in the future.
National Defense September 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Reform Agenda Targets Acquisition Workforce The Pentagon's cadre of "professional shoppers" could see a wave of reforms in the coming years, as the Defense Department remains under unrelenting pressure to fix its buying practices.
National Defense August 2008 Sandra I. Erwin	Future Combat Systems Accelerated, One More Time Watchers of the Army's largest ever high-tech weapons project, the Future Combat Systems, may have experienced a classic case of deja vu last month -- when the service announced its latest plan to rush FCS technologies to the front lines.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2007 Courtney E. Howard	FCS is Coming to Fruition Industry players advance vehicle electronics in an effort to put Future Combat Systems in the hands of current-force soldiers sooner than expected.
National Defense February 2006 Grace Jean	Pentagon Acquisition Reforms Likely to Encounter Opposition Radical changes to the Pentagon's acquisition system may be in place by the end of this year.
National Defense January 2008 Sandra I. Erwin	Bigger Budgets Disguise Larger Fiscal Dilemmas Nowhere is the financial outlook for the Defense Department more uncertain than in the procurement budget.
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.
National Defense April 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Army's Promise to War-Bound Soldiers: A Wireless Mobile Network If the Army's new tech-buying strategy goes according to plan, soldiers soon may be ditching paper maps, staticky radios and bulky satellite receivers.
National Defense April 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Spending Muscle Fueled By Emergency Funding A combination of bigger procurement accounts in this year's budget and war-emergency appropriations puts the Army on course to receive some of the largest levels of funding it has seen in decades.
National Defense October 2005 Lawrence P. Farrell	Defense Acquisition Reform: A Case of Deja Vu A proposed acquisition-reform blueprint will result from the work of an expert team that was hand-picked to be part of the Defense Acquisition Performance Assessment (DAPA) project. Currently, more than 80 new major weapon systems are under development, with a combined cost growth of $300 billion and total acquisition cost of nearly $1.5 trillion.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2008 John McHale	Forum Brings Out the Most Crucial Aspects of Counter-IEDs, C4I, JTRS, and More The 2008 Military & Aerospace Electronics Forum last month covered the issues such as commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) integration, adaptation of software-defined radio, and lessons learned from Iraq.
National Defense February 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Gen. Griffin: Army Procurement In Need Of Sweeping Changes The Army's procurement apparatus is undergoing a major reorganization designed to anticipate and satisfy equipment requirements.
National Defense July 2007 Stew Magnuson	Army Learns Tough Lessons From Armed Helicopter Letdown The price tag that the Army initially had estimated for its Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter has doubled.
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.
National Defense February 2009 Matthew Rusling	High-Tech Vehicles Promise Fuel Savings -- Years From Now For the Army, trying to cut its fuel use to significantly lower levels is simply not possible with its current fleet. Its old, gas-guzzling engines can be tweaked, but real fuel economy requires a shift to hybrid-electric technology
National Defense August 2004 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Soldiers Benefit From `Rapid Fielding' Mentality Among the organizations that really have pulled out all the stops to get needed technology to the field quickly is the Army Research Development and Engineering Command.
National Defense July 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Wrangling Over Future Combat Systems Raises Larger Questions A contentious bout of budget drills on Capitol Hill this year featured the Army's top brass mounting a passionate defense of its prized Future Combat Systems.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008 Courtney E. Howard	Rugged Electronics Empower Tomorrow's Technology Technology companies enable our military's net-centric vision through smaller, faster, stronger computers.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2009 John Keller	FCS: Too Big to Fail, or Too Juicy a Target to Succeed? The U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS) program appears to be finished -- at least as originally conceived
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 October 2006 John Keller	Suppliers of military connectors feel the pressure for increased performance, smaller size, and lighter weight The demand is not only for connecting subsystems, but also for connecting boards and modules inside boxes.
The Motley Fool May 22, 2009 Rich Smith	Boeing Says A-B-C-U-Later to $160 Billion Program The Pentagon confirmed that it is officially putting an end to its "$160 billion" Future Combat Systems program in its current form, heading off taxpayer fears that runaway costs could morph FCS into a $300 billion boondoggle.
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.
BusinessWeek June 25, 2007 Stanley Holmes	High-Tech Weapons: A Loss Of Control? The Pentagon may be ceding too much power to Boeing and other contractors.
Parameters Winter 2003/2004 Wilson, Gordon & Johnson	An Alternative Future Force: Building a Better Army The Army's transformation concept rests on a set of major assumptions that should be questioned. This article suggests an alternative pathway for preparing US ground forces to meet the challenges of the next several decades.
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 May 2006	Boeing standardizes FCS device development on Wind River Workbench Wind River's Workbench will be applied across the FCS program to develop the system-of-systems common operating environment (SoSCOE).
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2008 John McHale	Curtiss-Wright Controls announces another VPX win Officials at Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing won their second military design-in of their VPX products for a U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems program application
National Defense August 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Technologies Rushed to War Face an Uncertain Future In the scramble to deliver equipment requested by commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army often bypassed its own procurement bureaucracy.
National Defense May 2004 Sandra Erwin	Army Not Yet Sold On Hybrid Vehicles The Army's decision to stop funding the production of hybrid-electric Humvees is a clear sign that military vehicles will continue to be a tough sell in the world of fuel-efficient technologies.
National Defense January 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Army's Armored Force: Mix of Old and New Amid uncertainty about the prospect of its ambitious "future combat systems" program, the Army is forging ahead with plans to deploy up to 35 new armored brigades.
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.
National Defense November 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	'Cutting-Edge' Weapons No Longer the Holy Grail Because of the war experience and the fiscal outlook, experts predict, the Defense Department will for some time remain conflicted about how it should spend its research dollars.
National Defense July 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Army's Next Combat Vehicle: Cheaper and Simpler The Army lost a bruising battle to save its Future Combat Systems. Now the service is hoping that it can pick up the pieces and move on, although it's not yet clear how.
National Defense December 2003 Geoff S. Fein	Chem-Bio Defense Needs Common Standards Chemical and biological defense equipment is improving, but still is suffering from the lack of technical standards across industry and government agencies. Companies are focused on selling their technology, rather than combining forces and pushing the most promising concepts.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2006 John Keller	DOD Budget Keeps Growing, Despite the Odds Top-ranking experts in government and industry have been warning of substantial impending cuts in defense spending for the past 18 months, yet when Pentagon leaders released their 2007 spending proposals, the numbers just kept on growing.
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 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 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.
National Defense July 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Investment Decisions Haunting Army Today The oversimplified explanation of why the U.S. Army did not have enough bulletproof vests and armored trucks for troops in Iraq is that suppliers could not keep up with the demand.
National Defense February 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Army Modifies Weapon Acquisition Policies The Army's latest revision to its acquisition policy expands the responsibilities of program managers for the logistics and support of weapon systems, and stresses the importance of training equipment.
Parameters November 2004 Scott Boston	Toward a Protected Future Force The US Army plans to introduce its next-generation ground force quickly, starting with an experimental battalion by the end of the decade and a full brigade--called a Unit of Action--in 2014.
National Defense December 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Obliged to Add Troops, Army Agonizes Over Costs Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Richard A. Cody asserts the issue that should have been more thoroughly debated by political leaders, but has largely been ignored, is not the draft, but rather how the nation will pay for the additional troops the Army requires to keep fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2009 John Keller	Finally, a DOD budget request; now Congress can get to work Congress is facing a defense budget proposal from the Obama Administration of $663.8 billion -- $533.8 billion in discretionary spending and $130 billion to pay for fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.