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Adapting commercial equipments to military operations may be beneficial in many perspectives, i.e., low cost, reduced acquisition time, and technology advancement. On the other hand, there are many situations where it may be impractical to replace an entire military system with a commercial one. In these cases, it is necessary to replace some components of the military system with commercial substitutes. Technical review and feasibility study are essential for this switchover, and a reliability assessment is one of the most important issues. We propose the sensitivity measures related to the importance of a certain component in military system. The idea is that selecting the component with least sensitivity as a COTS (commercial-off-the-shelf) candidate will minimize the adverse effect on system reliability. A case study is presented in order to verify the feasibility of the idea.