But potential United States adversaries have access to the commercial market as well, and, as a result, the U.S. military must rely on dedicated military systems. COTS does not ensure U.S. military dominance, EIA warns. They are ours and are not going to be on a commercial shelf anytime soon.
Funding is competitive.
Jones praised the Pentagon team that developed ABIS, the starting point for the EIA study. But EIA said it is concerned that the services have yet to agree on the common architecture. In its study, EIA also said the U.S. must spend more on defensive information warfare. The study recommends broadening the efforts to include defensive measures to thwart intruders after they have entered the system, plus ways to rapidly recover data and function and to attack the attacker. The study also recommends creating an information warfare czar.