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On Keeping Your COTS Products in the Mattress

After the Great Depression, people kept money in the mattress. Some defense health IT vendors are doing the same with their COTS products.

Mary Womack December 4, 2025 5 min read

There's a pattern in defense health IT acquisition that doesn't get talked about enough: vendors sitting on commercial products rather than investing in modernization. The implications for the government — and ultimately for service members — are significant.

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Mary Womack
Mary Womack

Federal health IT professional and founder of Mission Meets Tech. I write about what policy, procurement, and platform decisions actually mean for the people doing the work.

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