The Defense Acquisition Portal (DAP) provides a central and organized point of access to AT&L resources and information. The DAP is the trusted source of acquisition news, web sites, training opportunities and other relevant information. Specifically, the DAP provides direct links to DoD acquisition policies, including USD(AT&L) memoranda, Federal Acquisition Regulation, and Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement, as well as department and service guidance and instructions.

The mission of the Defense Acquisition University (DAU) is to provide practitioner training, career management, and services to enable the AT&L community to make smart business decisions and deliver timely and affordable capabilities to the warfighter. The vision of the faculty and advisors at DAU is to enable the AT&L workforce to achieve the right acquisition outcomes.

The Acquisition Community Connection (ACC) is a collaboration environment that focuses on acquisition-related topics and disciplines such as contracting, logistics, program management, and risk management. It consists of Communities of Practice, Special Interest Areas, and collaborative workspaces that connect people with knowledge across DoD organizations and industry; enable members to interact and share resources, ideas, and experiences to support job performance and avoid duplication of effort; and identify partnership development opportunities.

The Best Practices Clearinghouse (BPCh) is an innovative knowledge repository that improves DoD acquisition processes by helping programs select and implement proven practices appropriate to the individual program needs. The BPCh focuses on software acquisition and systems engineering.

ACQuipedia is an online encyclopedia of common defense acquisition topics. Each topic article includes a definition, context narrative, and links to the most pertinent policy, guidance, tools, practices, and training. ACQuipedia provides the acquisition workforce with quick access to information in a succinct and digestible format.

The DAU Program Manager’s Tool Kit contains a graphic summary of acquisition policies and managerial skills frequently required by DoD program managers.

ACQuire is a search tool that focuses on the specific needs of the acquisition workforce. It uses the DAU acquisition taxonomy, trusted acquisition sites, and selected AT&L resources to enhance searches and derive better results. Searches can be conducted by individual or multiple sites; document titles; topic; content, via an index of major categories; and subcategories.

The Defense Acquisition Guidebook (DAG) provides links to policy, law, and useful content housed in communities of practice. It allows users to navigate through the DAG via a document index, graphical interface (Life Cycle System), or a search by topic.

This Integrated Life Cycle Chart is a pictorial road map of key activities in the systems acquisition process. Users navigate through a graphical model of the three major acquisition process areas: Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS); Defense Acquisition; and Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPB&E).

Ask a Professor (AAP) is a service offered by faculty and advisors of DAU. Users submit acquisition-related questions and receive formal responses. In addition, AAP contains a database of questions and answers that are categorized by subject area and can be browsed or searched.

The DAU Media Library provides live and pre-recorded videos and briefs on topics within the career fields taught at the Defense Acquisition University; as well as messages from the Undersecretary of Defense for AT&L, and DAU HQ corporate media.

The mission of David D. Acker Library and Knowledge Repository is to support the curriculum of DAU and the research, consulting, and professional development of its staff, faculty, and students. The library collects, preserves, and makes accessible the most accurate, current, and complete information relating to defense acquisition.

The Better Buying Power gateway supports an iniative of the office of the USD(AT&L) that establishes guidance for defense spending: to obtain greater efficiency and productivity, and to restore affordability and productivity.

DAU's Interactive Catalog (iCatalog) provides information regarding the University's regular (certification and assignment specific) training courses, continuous learning courses, various acquisition career field certification and Core Plus development guides, and alternate means to meet training requirements.

The Glossary of Defense Acquisition Acronyms and Terms contains most acronyms, abbreviations, and terms commonly used in the systems acquisition process within the Department of Defense (DoD) and defense industries. It focuses on terms with generic DoD application but also includes some Service-unique terms.

The Milestone Document Identification (MDID) page is an interactive list of all the documents and actions required for each major milestone or decision point in the acquisition lifecycle, as described in DoDI 5000.02 Enclosure 4.

DAU’s Service Acquisition Mall (SAM) is intended to help you get your job done by providing usable tools and templates to create your performance-based service acquisition requirements. The Mall consists of “Wings” and “Stores” that contain information related to categories of service. In addition, you will find Departments that are applicable across multiple areas, not just one SAM Wing or Store.

At the DAU Continuous Learning Center's portal for Continuous Learning (CL) Games, play games related to popular acquisition topics for fun and for continuous learning points.