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Web Exclusive Articles Online News | Industry News Flash | Executive Watch | Exclusive Content | Mil & Aero Blog | Archives Home Mil & Aero Blog 2009 P1 COTS, COTS, COTS, COTS Nearly everyone I speak to at defense electronics trade shows or for interviews over the phone brings up the COTS (commercial-off-the-shelf) procurement term in some way. They make COTS products, use COTS practices, or think COTS is the worst thing in the world. We're not playin' around: E-networking means business, not socializing All of us conducting business on E-networking sites like Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, and the others are running into a problem: a growing number of companies and other organizations are coming up with policies that ban the use of so-called "social networking" while at work. While it's difficult to characterize the depth of this mistake, we have ourselves at least partially to blame. DOD contracting: it's quiet out there; too quiet There seems to be a lull in technology-related contracting at the U.S. Department of Defense over the past week. A scan of the bluetops shows days on end with just one or two awards of consequence to the aerospace and defense electronics community. Makes me a little nervous. OpenVPX interoperability standard hands off to VITA in another step toward ratification Well I'll be jiggered! They did what they said they were going to do, when they said they were going to do it. Editor at large Wow, upon writing the headline, a flood of fat jokes popped into my head, but I will fight the impulse (which is also a good dieting tactic). It just goes to show you: I should never write a blog on a Friday night. I had an incredible week, traveling about Oregon visiting with knowledgeable, charismatic, and passionate executives at technology firms serving military and aerospace customers. Here's where I went, who I saw, and what I learned (in a nutshell anyway)... DVT: Not just in M-ATVs An editor at Military & Aerospace Electronics for a few years now, I have covered a wealth of topics and I have a few favorite "beats." Among them are vetronics, or electronic systems and devices employed in and on combat vehicles on land. It's official: Nobel Peace Prize now has no value whatsoever We have American soldiers dying in Afghanistan, bereft of top leadership as President Barack Obama dithers day after day. We have Iran speeding toward developing nuclear weapons as Obama sits on his hands. We have terrorists apprehended in war zones basking on Caribbean beaches instead of in cells in Guantanamo Bay. The #milaero online community and the stream of Twitterness -- it's all about you Did you know there's a Military & Aerospace Electronics online community on Twitter? Neither did I until yesterday. It's happening, organically, every day, through a nifty, yet powerful, Twitter tool called the hashtag. Russian T-95 main battle tank: could this combat vehicle be more formidable than we thought? I wrote about a new Russian main battle tank (MBT) more than a year ago, the T-95, in a blog headlined "New Russian battle tank: it's beginning to look a lot like the '80s." In this blog I wrote of a chilling sense I had about what felt like a return the bad old days of the Cold War between the United States and the then-Soviet Union. This T-95 tank which is supposed to enter service this year with its advanced vetronics, appears to be one of the most advanced war machines ever produced. Can commercial software-defined radio communications replace JTRS? One reader points out why not I wrote a story earlier this month, Air Force plan to cut its JTRS military radio program may acknowledge developments in private industry, in which I suggest that commercial developments in software defined radio (SDR) technology may be surpassing the U.S. military's Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS), and that commercial SDR might eventually render the military's JTRS developments obsolete. PAGE: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |

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