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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.
Salon.com April 2, 2001 Max Garrone	The people speak Online discussions in the People's Daily forum slam the U.S. -- but take shots at China, too...
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 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 2010 John Keller	Industry and Government Prepare Counter-Attacks Against Electronic Parts Counterfeiting Experts agree that about the only way of avoiding counterfeit parts is to purchase components only through authorized sources.
National Defense July 2009 Stew Magnuson	Navy Awaits Arrival of Powerful New Radar-Equipped Aircraft The Navy's new E-2D Advanced Hawkeye surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft has a powerful new radar.
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 December 2006 John Keller	Military Aircraft Funding to Peak This Year, Decline Over Next Decade U.S. military aircraft spending will peak this year at $47 billion, and decline to $41 billion in 2017, predict analysts of the Government Electronics and Information Technology Association.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2010 John Keller	Revenge of COTS Procurement: Counterfeit Parts A decade and a half after military commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) procurement burst onto the scene in a big way, the scourge of high tech counterfeit electronic parts is still with us, but industry finally seems to be getting off the dime to do something about it.
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 June 2005 John Keller	Industry Scores a Win with Military Technologies Conference We sat down with a panel of experts representing the most important corners of our industry. Their insights led us to craft three separate conference segments: sensor fusion for command and control; transformational communications, and directed-energy systems.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006 J.R. Wilson	Military and Commercial Avionics Draw From the Same Technology Well The increasing imperative for the military to be able to adopt and adapt new technologies has led to a dramatic push for new, avionics-specific industry standards for power, form factors, and interfaces that will apply to military as well as commercial aviation.
National Defense January 2007 Grace Jean	China's Defense Build-up Merits Closer Attention From Navy, Say Analysts China has been beefing up its military might, and the rapid growth of its navy, in particular, is creating disagreements in the Defense Department over whether such a build-up ought to be perceived as a threat to U.S. interests in the Pacific.
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.
Salon.com April 12, 2001 Lindsey, Montgomery & Tapper	War of words The Chinese get what sounds like an apology, and President Bush gets a resolution that silences the right -- for now...
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?
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2008 John McHale	JTRS Program Executive to Lead SDR Discussion at Military & Aerospace Electronics Forum One of the chief architects of the U.S. military's Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) program will headline the military communications session of the Military & Aerospace Electronics Forum conference and trade show.
InternetNews November 15, 2007	U.S. Panel Urges Vigilance on China Spying, Cyber War Chinese espionage poses "single greatest risk" to American technology, a congressional report says.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2007 John Keller	The Scourge of High Tech One of the worst trends to emerge in military systems design involves counterfeit electronic parts -- those that appear genuine, but which actually are substandard, altogether different, or in the worst cases, simply empty packages.
HBS Working Knowledge May 16, 2012	Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed? Costs tend to rise in all organizations unless managers and their staffs have the motivation and skill to control them. This phenomenon is analyzed during 50 years of US military overspending.
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 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
National Defense January 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	'Milspec' Technology Makes a Comeback A rising propensity to "militarize" the Defense Department's information networks will be making it more difficult for the Pentagon to take advantage of cutting-edge technologies from the commercial sector, say analysts and industry experts.
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.
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.
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Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2004 John Rhea	UAVs Provide Situational Awarness in Iraq This kind of surveillance capability is valuable not just for opposing combat forces. It would certainly be useful to monitor and pinpoint the locations of facilities used to develop weapons of mass destructions (WMDs).
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 April 2005 John Keller	Balancing national security and freedom of commerce Should U.S. technology developers sell their products to whomever they want, or should the government step in and strengthen technology export controls in what some consider a futile effort to keep important technology away from terrorists?
IEEE Spectrum June 2012 Celia Gorman	Counterfeit Chips on the Rise As more firms report finding phony chips, the danger they pose becomes clearer
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 August 2008 John Keller	COTS or military: sometimes it's hard to tell The two design approaches do not represent clearly different technologies, but instead the two are simply opposite sides of the same coin.
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.
Parameters Spring 2005	Review Essay Is there a Chinese Way of War?... Political Success Trumps Operational Victory... Use Force Sparingly; Repeat as Often as Needed... etc.