PENTAGON TALKS COTS, BUT GENERALLY BALKS

Archaic Pentagon rules and practices are making it virtually impossible to get smaller, commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) equipment into the U.S. military inventory. For instance, the T-38 jet trainer's 1960s-vintage engine-mounted fuel flow transmitter, declared unsupportable by the Air Force in 1994...

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