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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Click here to enroll in a course, update your student record, or contact the people who register you. Students who may apply include U.S. Armed Services personnel (military and civilian); and civilian employees of U.S. Government Agencies, and companies supporting DoD.

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.

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 Milestone Document Identification (MDID) web site is a group of interactive lists of all the documents required for each major milestone or decision point in the defense acquisition lifecycle. The information for these lists comes from official policies, such as DoDI 5000.02 and DTM-11-009.

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

The DoD Integrated Product Support Implementation Roadmap is a tool to help the Defense Acquisition Workforce understand and build the best product support package in support of the Warfighter.

The “List View” is a compact list of Product Support activities and outputs required. The “Timeline View” shows activities and outputs over the total lifecycle.

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.

The DAU Training Center quickly links the Defense Acquisition Workforce member to individual requirements, standards, and policies as well as DAU training resources and information.