The Use of Commercial Standards in DoD Applications.

Abstract

The current DoD policy for Acquisition Reform uses COTS products whenever possible to avoid development costs of new systems acquisition. The Next Generation Instrumentation Bus (NexGenBus) project is currently evaluating commercial standards for a high-speed instrumentation bus standard. Since commercial vendors, institutes, and groups design these standards for commercial applications, DoD cannot blindly adopt one of these standards for use in military environments. The standard should be tested, evaluated, and possibly changed based on the application. Using COTS products to evaluate a commercial standard can be tricky - if a unit fails, which is at fault? From a standards perspective, deviations are never desired, though they are required to make it usable for a specific application (e.g., test instrumentation) and creating a nonconforming variation to the standard.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 17, 1999
Accession Number
ADA368642

Entities

People

  • Sidney Jones Jr.
  • Tom Deselms

Organizations

  • Naval Air Warfare Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Aerial Warfare
  • Aircrafts
  • Commercial Communications
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Costs
  • Data Acquisition
  • Data Rate
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Environment
  • Instrumentation
  • Network Topology
  • Simulations
  • Standards
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Equipment
  • Topology

Readers

  • Applied Combinatorial Optimization and Logic Circuit Design.
  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Defense Acquisition Program Management