Acquistion And Contracting

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About This Page	Federal
Naval Postgraduate School	Commercial
Department of Defense	Periodicals
Air Force	Industry and Associations
Army	Finance Sites
Navy	Other Links
Joint

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- Army Knowledge Online	- Navy Knowledge Online	- Air Force Portal

The following links are provided for research and information purposes only to be used by students, faculty and staff.

About This Page
This page provides links to sites of interest to the Acquisition, Contract Management, Financial Management and related curricula at the Naval Postgraduate School. You should also consult the Library's web pages, particularly the Subject Guides by Topic, Databases, Resources for the Graduate School of Business and Public Policy, and Transportation Logistics pages.

Naval Postgraduate School (NPS)

Acquisition Research Program
The NPS Acquisition Research Program provides leadership in innovation, creative problem solving and an ongoing dialogue, contributing to the evolution of DoD acquisition strategies. This site includes a link to many of their Publications,

Military

Department of Defense

Acquisition Community Connection
(ACC)
Communities of practice for various acquisition career fields and special interest groups.

Acquisition Streamlining and Standardization Information System (ASSIST)
Download Military and Federal Specifications Standards, Commercial Item Descriptions, Qualified Manufacturers, and Qualified Products Lists. There is no charge for the required registration.

AT&L Knowledge Sharing System (AKSS)
Formerly Defense Acquisition Deskbook. Provides the most current acquisition policy and guidance for all DoD services and agencies. Includes access to over 1300 mandatory and discretionary policy documents (laws, directives and regulations).

Defense Acquisition History Project

Defense Acquisition University
(DAU)
Training and other resources for the Defense Acquisition Workforce.

Defense Acquisition Resource Center
from DAU
Includes latest changes to the DoD 5000 Series documents, contains an interactive version of the 5000 Guidebook (Nov 2004), a tutorial about the 5000 governing principles and framework, and a review of terminology.

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
DARPA is the central research and development organization for DoD. It manages and directs selected basic and applied research and development projects.

Defense Contract Management Agency
DCMA

Defense Information Systems Agency
DISA
Describes the structure and mission of DISA and its core mission areas, links to relevant DoD publications, and lots more.

Defense Logistics Agency (DLA)

Defense Modeling and Simulation Office (DMS0)

Defense Procurement and Acquisition Policy

Defense Supply Center Columbus (DSCC)

Defense Systems Management College (DSMC)

Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Industrial Policy (DUSD Industrial Policy)
For links to a variety of reports produced by this office, see their IP Products page (linked from their menu on the left. Includes pdf files for reports such as Foreign Sources of Supply: Assessment of the US Defense Industrial Base, Annual Industrial Capabilities Report to Congress, and more.

Directorate for Information Operations and Reports - Procurement Reports and Data Files
Provides various statistics on Prime Contract Awards, historical DoD procurement dollar values, number of DoD contractors, and more.

DoD Contracting Regulations
    Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)
    Defense FAR Supplement (DFARS)
    A page of links to the DFARS

DoD Contracts (from DefenseLink)
Provides a daily listing of DoD contracts valued at $5 million or more for the past 30 days, with a link to an archive for older contract announcements.

DoD Financial Management Regulations

DoD Inspector General Audit and Evaluation Reports
The DoD Inspector General is responsible for conducting, supervising, monitoring and initiating audits and investigations of the programs and operations of DoD. Many of their reports are available full-text online, and the Library owns many in print.

DoD Single Stock Point for Specifications and Standards (DODSSP)

EDA (Department of Defense Electronic Document Access)
Federal employees, government support contractors and vendors can register for this site which is the required repository for DoD contracts. Registered users can access the full text of contracts, contract modifications, contract deficiency reports, and other contract documents.

Selected Acquisition Reports (SARs)
This site links to SARs from 1969 - present.
SAR summary reports and news releases or memoranda for correspondents are also available by searching the news area of Defenselink. These reports, which are issued annually (with quarterly updates), summarize the costs of major defense acquisition programs. The news releases provide additional background information on selected programs.

Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics [USD(A&T)] ACQWeb
Official web site of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics. Provides information on USD functions, activities, projects and documents.

Air Force

Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) Contracting Laboratory's Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Site
View the FAR, DFARS, regulatory changes, and more.

Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition (SAF/AQ)
Information about Air Force Acquisition programs, training, reform, policy, personnel and more.

Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Financial Management and Comptroller)
Link to Air Force Comptroller magazine, Air Force financial management newsletters, other Air Force agencies. Note that some of the links don't seem to work from non-Air Force domains.

Army

Army Acquisition Support Center
This site is designed to assist members of the AAC and the acquisition workforce in obtaining information related to their professional development. Find career opportunities, career development guidelines, career management updates, professional publications, education and training opportunities and acquisition career management contacts.

Army Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) Acquisition Center
Army contracting business opportunities, acquisition reform information, and training and development resources.

Army Financial Management
Sponsored by the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Financial Management and Comptroller (ASA (FM&C)), this site provides links of interest to Army resource managers.
Publications

Army Single Face to Industry(ASFI) Acquisition Business Web Site
Established by the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology, this site provides information and interfacing for contractors interested in doing business with the Army.

Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology (Army Acquisition)

MANPRINT
The U.S. Army's MANPRINT (MANpower and PeRsonnel INTegration) program is designed to ensure that the soldier and unit needs are considered throughout the entire system acquisition process and life cycle. The site provides links to publications, regulations, speeches and other resources.

Procurement Network (ProcNet) - TACOM Acquisition Center
TACOM business opportunities.

Navy

DoN Acquisition One Source

Naval Center for Cost Analysis

Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP)

Naval Logistics Library (NLL)

Joint

Defense Business Transformation

Future Joint Warfare

Federal

Acquisition Central

Federal Acquisition Institute Training Application System
Federally sponsored educational and other resources for federal acquisition and contract management personnel.

Federal Acquisition Jumpstation
Purports to be "your link to federal acquisitions on the Internet," and is. Contains a very comprehensive list of links to procurement and acquisition servers by contracting activity (note the Navy sites), a Procurement Reference Library, federal rules, regulations, business opportunities, assistance information, Small Business Assistance, Electronic Commerce in the Federal Arena, streamlining federal acquisitions, more.\

Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS) Next Generation
Site requires free registration. Once you have registered you will have access to information about more than 12 million contract actions from across the Federal government. Detailed information about what is available on the site is here.

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
formerly: General Accounting Office
The Government Accountability Office is the investigative arm of Congress. It produces reports on a wide range of subjects of interest to Congress, including many that are defense-related. All publicly released GAO reports from 1995 onward are available full text. We own many in print as well.
Reports

General Services Administration Homepage

Procurement Reference Library
A good location for: Commerce Business Daily and other business opportunities information, Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), Executive Orders, Procurement Policy Letters and other OFFP documents, various department and agency supplements, some acquisitions manuals and handbooks, plus links to miscellaneous federal procurement resources and federal business assistance.

USAspending.gov
This free federal government site provides a single searchable interface for finding Federal contract awards including the name of the entity receiving the waward, the amount of the award, the information on the award including transaction type, funding agency, etc., the location of the entity receiving the aware, and more. Click on the Contracts tab.

Commercial

Fedmarket.com
Free site content includes news, advice, "how to" articles, a bid search engine, and a database of US-based government vendors.

GovCon
Contains, among other items, current news of interest to those involved with government contracting, the Commerce Business Daily, FACNET, FIRMR, DLAR, a guide to codes and acronyms, Cost Accounting standards, information on teaming opportunities, agency publications, lists of contracting officials, 8(a) certified firms by various criteria, the U.S. Budget, use an interactive Yellow Pages with experts in various fields. You must register to use most features, but there is no charge for registering or using.

Periodicals

Army AL&T
Full text articles from Army AL&T, which is published bi-monthly by the Office of the Deputy Director, Acquisition Career Management.

Defense Acquisition Review Journal
Formerly Acquisition Review Quarterly. Full text articles from Defense Systems Management College's quarterly journal from 1994 to the present.

COTS Journal
Monthly journal on COTS military acquisition topics. Current issues not available online. Articles from past issues are available full text as pdf files. Print subscriptions are free. Details provided on the site.

Commerce Business Daily (CBD)
NOTE: As of January 2002, Commerce Business Daily has been replaced by FedBizOpps.
The Commerce Business Daily (CBD) lists notices of proposed government procurement actions, contract awards, sales of government property, and other procurement information. A new edition of the CBD is issued every business day. Each edition contains approximately 500-1,000 notices. Each notice appears in the CBD only once. This CBD database contains notices from December 2, 1996 forward.

Defense AT&L (Acquisition, Technology & Logistics)
Bi-monthly magazine from Defense Acquisition University, replacing Program Manager in Jan/Feb 2004.

FedBizOpps
As indicated above in the description of Commerce Business Daily, FedBizOpps has replaced CBD as of January 2002.

Government Computer News
GCN.com
Full text articles and other links pertaining to e-government as well as other subjects of interest to the federal information technology community.

Government Executive
Full text news articles and abstracts of reports of interest to federal managers.

International Journal of Defense Acquisition Management
IJDAM is an online, interdisciplinary journal that will begin publishing in 2008. It is jointly published and supported by the Acquisition Research Program of the Naval Postgraduate School, and the Defence College of Management and Technology at Cranfield University.

Program Manager
Full text articles from Defense Systems Management College's bi-monthly magazine from 1994 - 2003. Continued by Defense AT&L
Acquisition, Technology & Logistics.

Industry and Professional Associations

National Contract Management Association (NCMA)
Links to Association and contracting-related news, publications, professional education and other resources.

National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA)
Links to Association news, National Defense magazine, a list of acquisition links, and more.

Software Engineering Institute (SEI)
SEI is a federally funded research and development center established by the Department of Defense to address the transition of software engineering technology. A component of Carnegie Mellon University, it is sponsored by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics.
Publications

Software Program Managers Network
Links to many useful full-text documents for managers of DoD software acquisition programs. Guidebooks, lessons learned, and more.

Finance Gateways

Finance Site List
This site from the Department of Finance at Fisher College of Business at Ohio State University links to finance journals, working papers, professional associations, research centers, link collections, and lots more.

Wachowicz's Web World: Web sites for discerning finance students
This site is maintained by one of the authors of the Fundamentals of Financial Management. Although designed as a supplement to that text, the site will be of interest to anyone interested in financial management resources on the web. It includes links to web sites, powerpoint presentations, interactive quizzes and exercises, and more.