ANSI/AIAA G-118-2006e

The purpose of this Guide is to assist development and maintenance projects (teams and individuals) thathave to address the use of, or consideration of, COTS products within large, complex systems, includingbut not limited to mission critical systems. This assistance is provided by capturing a set of informationabout COTS products (benefits, risks, recommended practices, lifecycle activity impacts) and missioncritical systems (variety of MCS, special needs for MCS, differences between MCS and other types ofsystems) and then providing some linkage between these topics so that various types of stakeholders canfind useful information. The document should be of value to both management and technicalindividuals/teams. It should also be of value to teams that are dealing with non-MCS, in that the scope isnot limited to only MCS.