Where is COTS Technology Today, webcast panel, April 21 at 11 am Est
NewsApril 20, 2015
FOUNTAIN HILLS, AZ. More than 20 years ago then U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry issued his COTS memo, which dictated that all the services use commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) technology wherever and whenever possible. Tomorrow, experts from the military electronics market discuss the impact of that memo on the defense industry two decades later in a webcast titled "Where is COTS Technology Today?"
The event, with panelists from GE Intelligent Platforms, North Atlantic Industries, United Electronic Industries, and Pentek, will be held April. 21 at 11 am Est. The event is hosted by Military Embedded Systems online.To register click here.
The COTS industry is flourishing today with many mil-spec products being offered as COTS and with strong track records of use in mission critical applications. However, the dark side of COTS – obsolescence – still lurks and is unlikely to change as commercial component suppliers answer to large volume consumer markets. Today COTS is still a method of procurement and to some still a marketing term. This webcast panel of industry experts will discuss where COTS is today, how it is defined, how it fits in with a procurement world of cutbacks, non-developmental items (NDIs), and Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs).
The speakers are: Rubin Dhillon, Global Marketing Director of Embedded Systems at GE Intelligent Platforms; Lino Massafra, VP of Sales and Marketing at North Atlantic Industries; Erik Goethert, Director of Sales at United Electronic Industries; and Rodger Hosking, VP and Co-founder of Pentek. Moderating the panel will be John McHale, EVP & Group Editorial Director for Military Embedded Systems.
