Off-the-shelf may refer to: . Commercial off-the-shelf, a phrase in computing and industrial supply terminology; Government off-the-shelf; Ready-to-wear; Shelf corporation, a type of company; Off the Shelf Festival, a festival of writing and reading which takes place each year in Sheffield, United Kingdom; A product recall (the product is "taken off the shelf") ...

CUCV/COTS. The Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) concept, which translated into the CUCV program, was originally intended to augment the purpose-built but expensive Gama Goat 6 x 6, 1¼-ton trucks and M151 series ¼-ton "jeeps" approaching the end of their service life in the mid-1970s. Initially, Dodge D series trucks were provided in the late 1970s with several military …