Home

News, announcements, training, search functions, Ask-a-Professor, and similar services with direct links supporting DoD acquisition.

Acquisition Process

Three processes cooperate to deliver capabilities needed by warfighters: the requirements process (JCIDS); the acquisition process (DAS); and the program and budget development process (PPBE). Includes links to DoD and Service policies, guidance, tools, and resources:

Workforce

Information on career management, the DoD Human Capital Initiative, career planning, leader­ship training, over­arching planning and guidance documents, and relevant professional organizations.

Policy

Encyclopedic source of acquisition policy that follows a hierarchy of policy issuance (i.e., executive, legislative, federal, etc.) and filtered according to organization, career field, and special topics.

Communities
of Practice

Links to communities of practice and special interest areas, the latest contribution and discussion posts for open ACC communities, community highlights, and links to related communities.

Training and
Continuous Learning

Information on training and continuous learning that supports DoD acquisition, information that helps manage professional training portfolios, and information on training available from DAU and DoD and Services activities.

Industry

Information on DoD industry partners that helps the participation and execution of DoD processes; including industry support pages, news, information, and links to private sector acquisition contractors.
 
 

Functional Gateways

Fifteen functional knowledge gateways, one for each of the defense acquisition career fields.

Special Topics

Spcial Topics:

Better Buying Power
Mission Areas
MDID ACAT I/IA Support

Better Buying Power

News, policy, and media that support greater value and efficiency in defense acquisition.

 

Featured - Privacy and Security Notices

Security Notice

The Defense Acquisition Portal (DAP) web site is maintained by the Defense Acquisition University and provided as a public service by the sponsoring office - Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (OUSD(AT&L)).

Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, no other attempts are made to identify individual users or their usage habits. Raw data logs are used for no other purposes and are scheduled for regular destruction in accordance with National Archives and Records Administration guidelines.

Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on this service are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.

Your use of this system is subject to monitoring at all times. For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, this government computer system employs software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.

Privacy Notice

The administrators of DAP do not utilize cookies of any kind to collect user data. All data collected by this site is collected only if specifically and knowingly provided by the user. All data is protected behind multiple firewalls and when necessary, is password protected. In addition, all data is scheduled for regular destruction in accordance with National Archives and Records Administration guidelines.

For site management, information is collected for statistical purposes only. The information collected is the name of the domain from which you access the Internet, and the date and time you access our site. This information is used to create summary statistics, which are used for such purposes as assessing what information is of most and least interest, determining technical design specifications, and identifying system performance or problem areas.

Personal identification information (i.e., name, e-mail address) is collected only if specifically and knowingly provided by you. It is collected only for the purpose of responding to requests for information and is not maintained subsequently.

Raw data logs are used for no other purposes and are scheduled for regular destruction in accordance with National Archives and Records Administration General Records Schedule 20.

Disclaimer Notice

This is an official United States Government System for authorized, unclassified use only. Do not discuss, enter, transfer, process, or transmit classified/sensitive national security information of greater sensitivity than this system is authorized.

Information presented on DAP is provided as a public service and may be distributed or copied. Use of appropriate byline/photo/image credits is requested.

Neither DAP's administrators nor OUSD(AT&L) have any authority or responsibility in the maintenance of the servers that are outside the dau.mil domain. These links are provided for information purposes only and should not be construed as an endorsement or agreement by or with the Department of Defense. Please let us know about existing external links that you believe are inappropriate, and about specific additional external links that you believe should be included.

Parts of this system may be restricted to DoD personnel only. You may use any link that is not locked to you. If the area is locked there will be a notation to that effect next to the appropriate link, and/or you will receive an "access denied" error when attempting to follow the link.