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Pentagon Should Continue To Promote COTS, AIA Official Says

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By Ann Roosevelt The Defense Department should continue to promote the use of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) products and technologies where they make sense, and not go back to military specifications for everything, according to top official of the Aerospace Industries Asssociation (AIA). "I think the Pentagon has promoted that [COTS]. I hope the Pentagon will continue to promote that," Clayton Jones, president and CEO of Rockwell Collins [COL] and chairman of the Board of Governors of AIA for 2008, said at…

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