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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, leaderÂship training, overÂarching 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.
Communitiesof 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 andContinuous 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.
Displays tabs for additional AT&L Special Topics Gateways:
And popular AT&L Career Fields Gateways:
Portals
Functional Gateways
Sixteen functional knowledge gateways, one for each of the defense acquisition career fields.
Special Topics
Links to gateways about important topics outside the general portals and beyond the standard career fields:
The Defense Acquisition Portal (DAP) was launched to replace the AT&L (Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics) Knowledge Sharing System (AKSS). Like its predecessor, DAP continues to provide acquisition information for all DoD service components and across all functional disciplines. DAP serves as the central point of access for all AT&L resources and information, and to communicate acquisition reform. As the primary reference tool for the Defense AT&L workforce, it provides a means to link together information and reference assets from various disciplines into an integrated, but decentralized, information source. DAP is one part of the Defense Acquisition University knowledge system. This knowledge system encompasses two web sites that meet two different workforce needs, but when combined are complementary in assisting the workforce in completing their missions, and finding the right information at the right time in the right place. The two sites are the DAP and the Acquisition Community Connection.
The vision for the DAU knowledge system is that it not only be a reference source for policy documents, but a means to foster and facilitate the growth and sustenance of AT&L related Communities of Practice (CoP). CoPs are an integral part of the Knowledge System vision and serve to promote sharing of discretionary assets (lessons learned, best practices, templates, etc.) on a continuing basis. CoPs do this by bringing together individuals who have a common interest in a particular topic and who find value in connecting to peers for the purpose of increasing their knowledge and understanding of the subject matter to better perform their jobs.
The DAP provides the AT&L workforce with a single entry point to acquisition, technology and logistics resources. It helps you to:
The DAP is designed to ensure that the information it provides is the most current information available. The new philosophy of directing users to the official source for references and documents assures you that you are accessing the most current version of policy documents and references.
Yes. DAP will continue to evolve and improve over the coming months by:
We appreciate all of the feedback we have received to-date. We are acting on that feedback to continue to improve this site to provide you with a true "golden source" of all acquisition-related content. Please continue to provide us with your ideas and express your needs via e-mail to our Help Desk or by completing our feedback survey.
The management of Defense Acquisition information has moved from the Joint Program Office (JPO) at Wright Patterson AFB to the Defense Acquisition University (DAU) at Ft. Belvoir, VA. The DAP Program Manager may be contacted via postal mail at:
Defense Acquisition University Attn: DAP Program Manager Bldg #209 9820 Belvoir Road Fort Belvoir, VA 22060-5565
Contact the help desk at:
AT&L Knowledge Sharing System Defense Acquisition University Operations, Information Systems (Help Desk) 9820 Belvoir Road Ft. Belvoir, VA 22060-5565 Comm: 703-805-3459 DSN: 655-3459 Fax: 703-805-3481 E-Mail: issc@dau.mil
We're interested in your opinion. If you have feedback you'd like to give with regards to the DAP, please go to the Feedback Survey, which is a button on the DAP Home Page, to complete our survey.
To see the DAP privacy and security policy click here.
Legal notices and policy statements for the DAP can be found here.
The abbreviations and acronyms used in the DAP include:
You can find more definitions in our glossary of Defense acquisition acronyms and terms.
Policy documents in the DAP are organized by:
A mandatory policy is a policy for which compliance is required. It usually has its genesis in law or a higher-level regulation. A discretionary policy consists of content that can be used in order to assist job performance, like Guidebooks and Handbooks.
In addition to the Home Page, there are six main tabs in the DAP. They are:
The content under each tab is further organized using context-sensitive menus on the left side of the screen.
Policy reference content is maintained and updated by the individuals responsible for the source documents. The remaining content is maintained by the DAU Program Manager and incorporates content identified as useful by users.
For more information regarding the 5000 series documents, please go to the 5000 Series Resource Center. Click here.
You may search the subject areas of previously asked Ask A Professor questions by going to the Advanced Search page and selecting the Ask A Professor Library.
You can copy and paste text from a PDF document to Word by using the "Text Select" tool. This feature is available with both the basic Reader, as well as the full version of Acrobat.
Using the DAP tabs and menus will take you to the content you are looking for with fewer clicks. Rollover a tab to read a description of the content of the pages under it. After selecting a tab, notice the list of items in the menu on the left of the screen. Next to some menu items is a small box with a "plus" sign: this indicates that when you click the menu item, a roll-up sub-menu will appear. If there is no box, there is no sub-menu. If the box has a "minus" sign, then when you select the item, the items below the box roll-up to save space on-screen.
The Community Resource Center contains information about Communities including:
Select any question to see the answer.