• Integrating Commercial Systems into the DOD, Effectively and Efficiently, Defense Science Board Report, 2009.

• Managing the Use of Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) Software Components for Mission-Critical Systems, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, AIAA, G-118-2006.

• COTS-Based System Initiative

Articles

• Do you copy? COTS Tools Reduce Downtime and Aid Network-Centric Operations, Military & Aerospace Electronics, June 23, by Asif Naseem.
• Federal Cost-Reimbursement Contract Overview is a Mess, GAO Says, Federal Computing Week, November 2, 2009, by Alice Lipowicz.
• Cost Reimbursement Contracts Gain Bigger Foothold in Procurement, Federal Times, January 27, 2009, by Elise Castelli.
• Wheel Invented, Reinvented, COTS Journal, August 2007, by Jeff Child, The RTC Group.
• Pentagon Cuts Back on Award Fees, Long a Source of Billions for Contractors, InsideDefense, Aug. 10, 2007, by Jason Sherman.
• More Dollars, Less Sense: Worsening Contracting Trends Under the Bush Administration, June 2007, by U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Majority Staff.
• Enhancing Competition in Federal Acquisition, Memorandum for Chief Acquisiton Officers, May 31, 2007, by Paul Dennett, Administrator, Office of Federal Procurement Policy.
•  Experts Contradict Pentagon on anti-RPG Tests, May 6, 2007, by Adam Ciralsky, Lisa Myers, et.al.
•  Acquisition Reform, Déjà Vu All Over Again, COTS Journal Online, April 2007, by Pete Yeatman.
•  Washington's $8 Billion Shadow, Vanity Fair, March 2007, by Donald L. Bartlett and James B. Steele.
• House Passes the Accountability in Contracting Act, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, March 15, 2007. To view the full text of the Accountability in Contracting Act (H.R. 1362), click here.
•  Oversight Bill (the Accountability in Contracting Act) Moves Steadily through House, March 13, 2007, by Matthew Weigelt.
• Pentagon IG: Procurement Laws Are Routinely Broken | Blames DoD for Hiring Other Agencies to Help Spend Funds, Defense News, January 22, 2007, by William Matthews.
• Small Firms Grab More Prime Contractor Roles, Defense News, November 27, 2006, by Mark A. Kellner.
• Law (the 2007 Defense Authorization Bill) Calls for DOD to Clean Up Acquisition, October 16, 2006, by Josh Rogin.
•  Commercial Off-the-Shelf Technology:  Where We Stand, Space News, October 9, 2006, by Dr. Sally Baron.
•  Senate Passes GSA Reorganization Bill, September 7, 2006, by Matthew Weigelt.
• Army Shuns System to Combat RPGs, NBC News, Sept 5, 2006, By Adam Ciralsky, Lisa Myers & the NBC News Investigative Unit. 
• The FBI’s Upgrade That Wasn’t: $170 Million Bought an Unusable Computer System, The Washington Post, August 18, 2006, by Dan Eggen and Griff Witte.
• Defense Stifles Innovation Despite Urgent War Needs, Defense Watch, July 2006, by Sandra Erwin.
•  Doing IT the Army Way, Infoworld, May 15, 2006.
•  Fuel-oil Blenders Save time, Money, and Lives: Environmental professionals at the Army Engineer School found a way reduce oil disposal problems in Iraq by using commercial off-the-shelf equipment. Army Logistician Pg. 50(1) Vol. 38 No. 3 ISSN: 0004-2528, May 1, 2006, by Albert M Vargesko.
•  Fixing Space Acquisitions, Military Aerospace Technology Online, April 19, 2006, by Rep. Terry Everett.
•  Lockheed Martin Leads the Way for FBI Sentinel Project, Information Week, March 17, 2006, by Larry Greenemeier.
•  Competitive Sourcing: Is Government Moving Forward or Backward, Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), by Joe Tasker, Senior Vice President, Government Affairs, ITAA.
•  Boeing Again Finds Itself in Sen. McCain's Investigative Sights, The Hill, March 9, 2005, by Megan Scully.
•  Small Defense Contractors Unite in Bid for More Work, Boston Business Journal, January 14, 2005, by Sheri Qualters.
• A Revolutionary Use of COTS in a Submarine Sonar System, Crosstalk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering, November 2004, by Capt. Gib Kerr and Robert W. Miller.
•  The Outsourcing Hole, Federal Computer Week, July 19, 2004, by Matthew French.
•  “The Good News About COTS,” SEI Vol. 6, No. 1, First Quarter 2003, by Lisa Brownsword and Ed Morris.
•  Specifications and Standards: A New Way of Doing Business, June 29, 1994 by William Perry.