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

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:

• Milestone Document Identification (MDID)
• DAU Online Glossary

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

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.

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.

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

Links to gateways about important topics outside the general portals and beyond the standard career fields:

• DoD PS Implementation Roadmap 
• Mission Areas
• MDID ACAT I/IA Support 
• Overseas Contingency Operations
• Space Acquisition