COTS Guidelines Task 04-001

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COTS GuidelinesTask 04-001
Description
Benefits

Industry continues to struggle with the use of
COTS in military/aerospace applications.
Individual COTS guidelines have been generated by
various companies and agencies but are not
collected into a location useful for the Agency.
This task will survey COTS guidelines and
approaches used throughout industry categorizing
the approaches by commercial, military, and space
applications. This task is confined to surveying
industry and gathering the various COTS
guidelines and approaches. Survey results will
be centrally located for NASA use. Common
elements within the documents will be combined
into one document section as applicable. Point
of contacts will be identified for each document.
NASA users of COTS hardware will have a central
location for various COTS approaches and
guidelines. These guidelines provide a basis for
the user to evaluate the COTS hardware for the
application consistent with other COTS users.
Deliverables
Survey results listing guidelines and approaches
for various COTS application. POC for each
guideline. Consolidation of common guidelines
and approaches.
Schedule/Costs
Risks
Total ROM Cost (non-CS) 65K
CS FTEs .1
Red, Yellow, or Green
Lead Center/PI JSC Co-Is All centers to
provide existing documentation Center Funding
SplitJSC-65K/.1
Non-NASA Organizations/Procurements CALCE, AQEC,
SPAR, DOD, RAC

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