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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:
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.
Applications
AT&L Knowledge Management Systems (AKMS) applications.
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:
This page is the one-stop source for information
Lenn Vincent
RADM, USN (Ret)
DAU Industry Chair
and links about industry support for defense acquisition.
For more information, select any of the links under “Industry” in the menu on the top-left.
The defense industry's role in Equipping the Force could be better defined as… responsible for the design of systems meeting DoD performance parameters, performing developmental testing, manufacturing/producing the system, and (if called upon to do so) providing a significant level of logistic support. Thus, their role is to design, test, produce, and logistically support almost all our weapon and space systems. Far more than just 'support', or provide 'active cooperation'. In other words, U.S. Military superiority is significantly enhanced by the mutual and active cooperation between the private and public sectors.
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