Acquisition & logistics excellence: an internet listing tailored to the professional acquisition workforce

Defense AT&L, March-April, 2008

Government relations department; links to issues councils; market research assistance.

Federal Acquisition Institute (FAI)

www.fai.gov

Virtual campus for learning opportunities; information access and performance support.

Federal Acquisition Jumpstation

http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/pub/fedproc/home.htm

Procurement and acquisition servers by contracting activity; CBDNet; reference library.

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

www.asu.faa.gov

Online policy and guidance for all aspects of the acquisition process.

Federal Business Opportunities

www.fedbizopps.gov

Single government point-of-entry for federal government procurement opportunities over $25,000.

Federal R & D Project Summaries

www.osti.gov/fedrnd/about

Portal to information on federal research projects; search databases at different agencies.

Federal Research in Progress (FEDRIP)

http://grc.ntis.gov/fedrip.htm

Information on federally funded projects in the physical sciences, engineering, life sciences.

Fedworld Information

www.fedworld.gov

Central access point for searching, locating, ordering, and acquiring government and business information.

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

http://.gao.gov

GAO reports; policy and guidance; FAQs.

General Services Administration (GSA)

www.gsa.gov

Online shopping for commercial items to support government interests.

Government-Industry Data Exchange Program (GIDEP)

www.gidep.org

Federally funded co-op of government-industry participants, providing electronic forum to exchange technical information essential to research, design, development, production, and operational phases of the life cycle of systems, facilities, and equipment.

GOV.Research_Center

http://grc.ntis.gov

U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Technical Information Service (NTIS), and National Information Services Corporation (NISC) joint venture single-point access to government information.

Integrated Dual-Use Commercial Companies (IDCC)

www.idcc.org

Information for technology-rich commercial companies on doing business with the federal government.

International Society of Logistics

www.sole.org

Online desk references that link to logistics problem-solving advice; Certified Professional Logistician certification.

International Test & Evaluation Association (ITEA)

www.itea.org

Professional association to further development and application of T & E policy and techniques to assess effectiveness, reliability, and safety of new and existing systems and products.

Joint Capability Technology Demonstrations (JCTD)

www.acq.osd.mil/jctd

JCTD's accomplishments, articles, speeches, guidelines, and POCs.

U.S. Joint Forces Command

www.jfcom.mil

"Transformation laboratory" that develops and tests future concepts for warfighting.

Joint Fires Integration and Interoperability Team

https://jfiit.eglin.af.mil

USJFCOM lead agency to investigate, assess, and improve integration, interoperability, and operational effectiveness of Joint Fires and Combat Identification across the Joint warfighting spectrum. (Accessible from .gov and .mil domains only.)

Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC)