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2 unusual facts about COTS


COTS

Commercial Orbital Transportation Services, a NASA program for delivery to the International Space Station by private companies

Commercial off-the-shelf, products that are commercially available and can be bought "as is"


AN/SLQ-25 Nixie

Several engineering changes resulted in COTS equipment being utilised extensively in the system.

Cornell University Satellite

Using a commercial off the shelf (COTS) single board computer running Windows CE and C++, C&DH will execute the ADCNS algorithms and flight code.

Cygnus Orb-D1

The flight was carried out by Orbital Sciences under contract to NASA as Cygnus' demonstration mission in the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program.

Effects of Hurricane Isabel in North Carolina

Hours after Isabel made landfall, President George W. Bush issued a major disaster declaration for 26 North Carolina counties, which allowed the use of federal personnel, equipment and lifesaving systems and the delivery of heavy-duty generators, plastic sheeting, tents, cots, food, water, medical aid and other essential supplies and materials for sustaining human life.

Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act

This Act enables simplified procurement procedures where the procurement is limited, facilitates reliance of Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) technology, and promotes the use of fixed-price Performance Based Contracting.

Game development tool

While many COTS packages are used in the production of games—such as 3D packages like Maya and 3D Studio Max, graphic editors like Photoshop and IDEs like Microsoft Visual Studio—they are not considered solely game development tools since they have uses beyond game development.

Institute for Unmanned Space Experiment Free Flyer

SERVIS-2 was a 900 kg (1,984 lb) technology test mission with COTS parts.

The aim of USEF is technology development, especially the testing of commercial off-the-shelf parts (COTS), robotics, material sciences and technology for optical earth observations.

JACK Intelligent Agents

The JACK platform was written for commercial application of the multi-agent paradigm (a COTS product) to complex problem solving and was the basis for starting the company Agent Oriented Software (AOS) where it remains the flagship product.

Mancusi v. DeForte

The only possibility that might work was four rooms at a motel where cots could be set up.

Odyssey Space Research

This start-up in the space industry founded in November 2003 has already won major contracts and is the only private company working on the 5 next human-rated spacecraft (ATV, HTV, CEV, and both COTS spacecraft with SpaceX and Orbital Sciences Corporation).

Portaledge

These heavy cots were used on multi-day climbs on granite monoliths like El Capitan, and then sometimes tossed off the summit for later retrieval.

SIMbox

It allows companies to create simulation-based training which is commercial off-the-shelf software (COTS), HLA, and SCORM compliant.

Standard Army Maintenance System – Enhanced

Hardware: COTS notebooks, host, printer and AIT equipment (handheld device, wireless access point, encoder/decoder)

Styrsö-class mine countermeasures vessel

The class is built exclusively with civilian technology, so called (COTS), everything from diesel engines to the computers on board have been bought from the civilian market.

UltraCSDB

UltraCSDB is intended to be Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) application and as such requires minimum installation efforts.

United States Military Standard

In their place, the DOD encouraged the use of industry standards, such as ISO 9000 series for quality assurance (see COTS), SAE standards such as the AS and AMS series (e.g., AS9100, AMS 2404), and others.


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