Military Librarians Workshop, 18-20 Nov 97, Dayton Marriott Hotel, Dayton, Ohio

Methods for Identifying US Military Internet Resources

• See if someone else has done the work for you!
  
  
  • When looking to see if a particular organization has an Internet presence, consult a directory containing comprehensive listings of military sites. Use the Service level home pages.
    
    
  • If browsing with no particular site in mind, consult a general guide to resources compiled by librarians at military educational institutions or think-tanks such as the Army's National Defense University Library Defense Nexus.
    
    
  • If looking for Internet resources in a particular subject area, examine lists of links compiled by organizations specializing in the subject or functional area. Many organizations compile lists of links considered to be of prime impor tance in support of their mission. For example, for links to resources in military history, go to the U.S. Army Center of Military History or for resources related to modeling and simulating, go to the Defense Modeling and Simulation Office.
    
    
  • Look for an FAQ on the subject being researched. Maybe someone else has thought of your question!
  
  
• Conduct a search using the advanced capabilities of a search engine such as Alta Vista or HotBot to limit search results to military domains or specific military servers.

Directories and Guides for US Military Internet Resources

Directories by Service

• Army Home Page
  http://www.army.mil
  Prominently displayed at the top of the Army Home Page is the capability to browse or search by keyword or organization name. There is also a "New Sites" link to keep abreast of newly added sites as well as a listing of organizations by subject area.
  
  
• Air Force Sites
  http://www.af.mil/sites/
  Browse through this alphabetical listing of publicly accessible US Air Force Web Sites. Other public listings are available by Major Command. The list of InternalAir Force sites is available only to ".mil" domains.
  
  
• NavyOnLine
  http://www.ncts.navy.mil/nol/
  Browse through Naval Web sites alphabetically by organization name or subject category or search by keyword(s) found in the title of the organization's Web site.
  
  
• Marine Corps Locations Around the World
  http://www.usmc.mil/wwwmain/marsites.htm
  Browse this list of links to Marine Corps sites around the world.
  
  
• GuardLINK
  http://www.defenselink.mil/guardlink/
  Browse by state for links or contact information for National Guard units in the United States.
  
  
• ReserveLINK
  http://raweb.osd.mil/ReserveLink.htm
  Links to the Army, Air Force, Naval, Army, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard Reserve organizations plus the National Guard and the Air National Guard.
  
  
  • Army Reserve Units
    http://www.army.mil/usar/homepage.htm
    Browse by organization name, date, keyword or state. Search by keyword or organization name.
    
    
  • Air Force Reserve Units
    http://www.afres.af.mil/units/
    Browse a list of links by organization name.
    
    
  • Naval Surface Reserve Force Organizations
    http://www.ncts.navy.mil/navresfor/navsurf/srfflorg.html
    
    
  • Naval Air Reserve Directory
    http://www.ncts.navy.mil/navresfor/navair/aircont.html
    
    
  • Marine Forces Reserve Web Sites by Location
    http://www.marforres.usmc.mil/
    Click on the link for MFR Web Sites to browse by state or search by keyword.

General Guides

• The National Defense University (NDU) Library's Defense Nexus
  http://www.ndu.edu/ndu/library/military.html
  A guide to links for the Air Force, Army, DoD, Navy and Marine Corps plus international military links and civilian defense-related links. Arrangement is by Service and then alphabetical by name of the organization. Some links are described. There are also links to subject areas of interest to the NDU community such as regional studies, defense acquisition, political science, economics, and information technology.
  
  
• CARL's Gateway to the Internet
  Combined Arms Research Library (CARL), Ft. Leavenworth
  http://www-cgsc.army.mil/carl/gateway.htm
  A brief selection of sites arranged by Service and other topical areas such as Military Education & Research; Military Photos and Graphics; Military Magazines On-Line; and Sites for CAS3.
  
  
• Defense Technical Information Web Locator
  http://www.dtic.mil/dtiwl/
  The DTIW contains links to a wide variety of DoD (and non-DoD) resources. Arrangement is by subject category.
  
  
• Information Resource Center, Canadian Forces College
  http://www.cfcsc.dnd.ca/welcome.html
  
  
  • War, Peace, and Security Guide
    http://www.cfcsc.dnd.ca/links/index.html
    An excellent guide to military (and military related) resources worldwide. Created by the Information Resource Centre, Canadian Forces College, an educational institution for Canadian military officers.
    
    
  • Military Libraries
    http://www.cfcsc.dnd.ca/links/f/millib/index.html
    Links to military libraries on the Internet. Contains an extensive listing of US military libraries.

"Civilian" Directories and Guides

• Federal Web Locator
  http://www.law.vill.edu/Fed-Agency/fedwebloc.html
  Villanova's Center for Information Law and Policy created this one stop shopping point for military (and civilian Government) information on the World Wide Web. The DoD listings are modest, however. Use the search mechanism to look for a particular agency or simply browse the DoD listings
  
  
• Yahoo
  http://www.yahoo.com/
  For Military resources, search or browse through the sites listed under Government:Military

• The Military Network
  http://www.military-network.com/
  
  
• Armed Forces .COM
  http://www.armedforces.com/
  
  
• BUBL Military Science
  http://link.bubl.ac.uk/military/
  This guide, out of a university in the UK, covers military resources around the world.
  
  
• The US Military Online: A Directory For Internet Access To The Department Of Defense, William Arkin, Brassey's, c1997. This book, published only this summer, is an excellent guide to US military resources!

Subject Specific Sites

• LabLINK - The US Department of Defense Laboratory Community
  http://www.dtic.mil/lablink/
  Great starting point for links to DoD laboratories and other federally run labs.
  
  
• TechTransit
  http://www.dtic.mil/techtransit/
  Information and links related to technology transfer at this site by the DoD Deputy Director Defense Research and Engineering, Office of Laboratory Management and Technology Transition.
  
  
• Military History
  
  
  • U.S. Army Center of Military History
    http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/default.htm
    Links to other military history resources on the Internet.
    
    
  • Naval Historical Center
    http://www.history.navy.mil/
  
  
• Defense Modeling and Simulation Office (DMSO) Links
  http://www.dmso.mil/orgs.html
  Links to military (and other) organizations involved in modeling and simulation. Arrangement under broad categories: Organizations and Groups; DMSO Projects; M&S in Government; M&S in Industry; M&S in Academia.
  
  
• Center for Army Lessons Learned
  http://call.army.mil/call.html
  
  
  • Operations Resource Links
    http://call.army.mil/call/homepage/opnsres5.htm
  
  
• Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center's LingNet
  http://lingnet.army.mil/
  Ling-Net, the Linguist's Network, supports military linguists and is located at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC) in Monterey, California. Most of the links (under LingNet's Language Resources) cited are not military but this web site is an excellent example of a specialized military site containing valuable links. Browseable by language in alphabetical order as well as searchable. Resources cited include information on special fonts needed for non-Roman alphabets, bac kground information on the country and culture where the language is spoken, and training materials for the language.
  
  
• Manpower and Training Research Information System (MATRIS)
  http://dticam.dtic.mil/hm/org.html
  Links to other organizations related to manpower, personnel, training and human factors(MPT/HF) research.
  
  
• Ballistic Missile Defense Organization's BMDO Link
  http://www.acq.osd.mil/bmdo/bmdolink/html/bmdolink.html
  This site is provides fact sheets and links to other organizations conducting research in ballistic missile defense.
  
  
• AMEDD MEDLI-NET (Army Medical Department Medical Library and Information Network)
  http://www.medcom.amedd.army.mil/medcom/medlinet/
  The US Army Medical Command Library Program office has created this site dedicated to medical resources on the Internet of interest to the US Army medical community. Internet resources are divided into sections: Information Resources which contains links to Biomedical/Research Sites, Electronic Journals & Publications, Virtual Reference Desk, and Library-Oriented Web Sites; the Health Reference Center SearchBank which is designed to be a one-stop resource for Patient Education information and is limited to MEDCOM personnel; and a link to the MEDLINE database, the premier resource for medical literature from the National Library of Medicine. Of the freel y accessible materials, of special note are medical related resources compiled under the Virtual Reference Desk such as links to health-related statistical resources and links to medical organizations and associations on the Internet.
  
  
• DoD Environmental Cleanup Home Page
  http://www.dtic.mil/envirodod/index.html
  Resources relating to the environmental cleanup of active, formerly used, and closing bases. Along with information on business opportunities, there also is a lengthy list links to DoD environment al resources.
  
  
• DENIX - the Defense Environmental Network and Information Exchange
  http://denix.cecer.army.mil/denix/denix.html
  DENIX is designed to provide DoD personnel in the environmental security arena with timely access to environmental legislative, compliance, restoration, cleanup, and DoD guidance information. Some information on DENIX is publicly accessible, the rest, however, is restricted to DoD personnel and DoD contractors with a current relevant contract.
  
  
• Defense Women's Health Information Center
  http://www.4woman.org/dwhic/index.htm
  A joint effort, composed of representatives from the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs), the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery of the U.S. Navy, the Office of the Surgeon General of the U.S. Air Force and, acting as executive a gent for the project, the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command. The site provides resources for researchers ranging from listings of past and present studies and grants and links to resources on health issues for military women.
  
  
• Defense Acquisition University
  http://www.acq.osd.mil/dau/
  The DAU was established in 1990 to consolidate and integrate education and training for DoD employees in the area of acquisition. Links to documents and other acquisition related sites can be found here.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

(army near history) and FAQ and domain:mil

• Defense Link FAQs
  http://www. defenselink.mil/faq/pis/index.html
  
  
• U.S. Army FAQ
  http://www.army.mil/Faq.htm
  Want to know if Army regulations and FMs will be available on the Web? And if so, where? Look at the Army FAQ for the answer to this and many other questions we all want to know the answers to.
  
  
• Army History FAQs
  http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/faq.htm
  
  
• Civil Engineer Objective Squadron FAQ
  http://www.afcesa.af.mil/AFCESA/A-GRAMS/1996/www9607.html
  
  
• Frequently Asked Questions about MILSPEC Reform
  http://www.acq.osd.mil/es/std/faq.html
  Six volumes of questions dealing with military specifications and standards reform.
  
  
• Naval Historical Center FAQ
  http://www.history.navy.mil/nhc3.htm
  
  
• Contracting Opportunity FAQ at Eglin AFB
  http://eglinpk.eglin.af.mil/OTHER/Faq/FAQ.HTM
  
  
• Grassland FAQ
  http://www.cecer.army.mil/grass/LAS/faq/faq.html
  
  
• Parallel Computing Meta FAQ
  http://ivory.nosc.mil/~trancv/ppdir/PP-mFAQ.new.html
  
  
• Astronomical FAQ
  http://aa.usno.navy.mil/AA/faq/

Search Engines

• Some military sites do not allow search engines to collect information on the contents of their Web pages. Therefore, no amount of searching will identify where the information might be located.
• Restricting by domain won't always work as there are some military sites which do not have a .mil domain! Some military educational institutions such as National Defense University have .edu as their domain, still ot hers have a .com such as the Army's Recruiting Web Page.
• New sites or information just mounted on an existing site may not yet have been visited by a search engine's robot
  
• Dynamically changing sites are not indexed, according to the documentation of some Web search engines such as Alta Vista.
  
• Search engines are of varying size and content. If a search fails in one, try another.
  
• There is no organization or standarized cataloging of sites. Keep your detective hat on as the information desired may be present within your search results but is not readily apparent by the description provided on the hit list.

• Alta Vista Advanced Search Option
  http://www.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=aq&what=web
  Use the boolean capabilities of Alta Vista's advanced search interface in combination with a field search to limit your searches to military Internet sites found in Alta Vista's catalog of 31 million Web pages. Be sure to repeat your most important se arch term in the results ranking criteria box which determines how search results are displayed.
  
  Those unfamiliar with how to construct a search query using boolean logic, ask your organization librarian for a tutorial. For example:
  
  Is the report to Congress "Right-sizing the DoD Acquisition Workforce" available on the Web?
  
  "right sizing" and acquisition and domain:mil
  
  A fishing expedition: Find Army sites that mention the concept of the tactical internet
  
  "tactical internet" and host:army.mil
  
  What is the URL for the Army's Foreign Military Studies Office?
  
  (FMSO or "foreign military studies office") and host:army.mil
  
  Of course, this particular search would be more easily and quickly accomplished by going to the Army Home Page to search the organizational listing.
  
  A fishing expedition: Find business opportunity information on Navy sites
  
  ("business opportunit*" or "contr act solicitation*") and host:navy.mil
  
  Find sites linked to the DSMC Home Page:
  
  link:www.dsmc.dsm.mil
  
  Alta Vista's reference literature also suggests conducting the search as follows in order to eliminate references from within the organization's many other Web pages:
  link:www.dsmc.dsm.mil and not host:dsmc.dsm.mil
  
  These searches can be done at the simple search interface (http://www.altavista.digital.com/), although due to its non-boolean search structure, searching here will return a higher number of hits with mo re of them being of marginal value. It is possible to simulate the advanced search by using the "+" symbol to require that both elements be present to satisfy search requirements. Otherwise, the search defaults to the "or" logic.
  
  For example, +"information warfare" +domain:mil
  
  
• HotBot
  http://www.hotbot.com/
  HotBot, with its catalog of more than 50 million Web pages, provides the same capability as Alta Vista for advanced searching using boolean logic and limiting by field. Users may type in a search query similar to the examples above or fill in the app ropriate choices on the search form. One peculiarity of HotBot is the existence of a Stop Word list which, unfortunately, is not present in the site's Help documentation. Certain words such as information, business, internet, appear to be on this invisi ble list. Therefore searches on "information warfare," "business opportunities" and "tactical internet" do not work very well. Except for this HotBot is an excellent search engine! An example that does work:
  
  Is the full-text of the "Quadrennial Defense Review" available yet?
  
  On the search form, select "the Boolean expression"
  (QDR or "quadrennial defense review") and domain:mil
  
  
• GovBot of Government Web Sites
  http://cobar.cs.umass.edu/ciirdemo/Govbot/
  Automatically limited to a collection of more than 334,000 military and federal Government web pages, this would seem an ideal search interface for military organizations and subjects. However, its non-boolean interface produces disappointing results and its command driven interface will put off all but the most persistent of users.
  
  

Military Internet Resources

Public Affairs and News Resources

The Department of Defense and the Services

• DefenseLINK
  http://www.defenselink.mil/
  Designed to be the starting point for information about DoD, its organizations, and functions. Links to each of the services are found on the home page as well as official news releases, photos, publications such as the Quadrennial Defense Review or the 1997 Annual Defense Report which may be s earched or browsed, and fact sheets. Look here for biographic information on senior defense officials as well as their speeches (available through Defense Issues), information on doing business with DoD, history, career opportunities, and education. There is also a searchable index of DefenseLINK material.
  
  
  • DefenseLINK News
    http://www.defenselink.mil/news/
    
    
  • BosniaLINK
    http://www.dtic.mil/bosnia/index.html
    BosniaLINK is the official home page about US military activities in Operation Joint Endeavor, the NATO peacekeeping mission in Bosnia. The site contains operation maps, fact sheets, news releases, biographies of key commanders and leaders, and trans cripts of briefings, speeches, and testimony. There are also links to NATO and State Department sites.
  
  
• United States Army Home Page
  http://www.army.mil/
  Notable links: Army installations; Fiscal Year 1998 Army Posture Statement; a subject listin g of Army sites; and information on Army Retirement Services.
  
  
  • ArmyLINK: Office of the U.S. Army Chief of Public Affairs
    http://www.dtic.mil/armylink/
    Contains links to the Army Broadcasting Service; the Fact File on Army equipment, weapon systems, vehicles, aircraft, and more; News including recent news releases plus a searchable archive for mid 1996 to present, speeches, and Army News stories; Ar my photos by category; an FAQ; and Soldiers Magazine.
    
    
    • ArmyLINK News
      http://www.dtic.mil/armylink/news/
  
  
• Air Force Link - the Official Site of the US Air Force
  http://www.af.mil/
  Notable links: The Office of the Secretary of the Air Force for Public Affairs has loaded this site with information about the Air Force such as: Global Engagement: A Vision for the 21st Century Air Force, the Air Force Library, and Air Force news services.
  
  
  • Air Force Library
    http://www.af.mil/lib/
    Contains biographies of high-level Air Force personnel; a "facts on demand" fax service; fact sheets on Air Force organizations and weapons systems; an FAQ; Air Force bands and music; publications; and speeches by high ranking Air Force civilian and m ilitary leaders.
    
    
  • Air Force News
    http://www.af.mil/news/
    Updated daily, there are current news articles on issues of concern to the USAF; links to news by major command; a calendar of public events hosted by the Air Force; and news from other federal government sources. An easy to use search interface make s it easy to find news resources on this web site.
  
  
• The United States Navy: Welcome Aboard
  http://www.navy.mil/
  Notable links: Updated daily, this site contains a wealth of information about the US Navy. There is an FAQ about the Navy, the biography, speeches, and testimony of the Secretary of the Navy, highlights of the FY98/99 Navy Budget, status of the US Navy, the 1997 Posture Statement, the Navy Fact File which contains complete descriptions of the roles and characteristics of Navy aircraft, ships (for example, aircraft carriers), and weaponry, as well as news and a listing of naval related links. Those fortunate to have audio capability will be greeted by the sound of bells traditionally rung aboard ships to announce the arrival of important guests.
  
  
  • Navy News Service
    http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/news/navnews/.www/navnews.html
    
    
  • The Navy Office of Information
    http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/chinfo/chinfo.html
    The Navy Office of Information is the representative for Navy-wide public affairs matters and is the creator of the United States Navy Home Page.
  
  
• MarineLINK: The United States Marine Corps
  http://www.usmc.mil/
  Notable links: General Officer biographies; Command Directory; and Marine Corps Orders and D irectives.
  
  
  • Marine Corps News Summary
    http://www.usmc.mil/mcnews.nsf/New+MCNEWS
    
    
  • Division of Public Affairs
    http://www.hqmc.usmc.mil/pashops.nsf/PA+Shops
    
    
  • Marine Corps Public Affairs Points of Contact Around the World
    http://www.usmc.mil/opages/paoshops.htm
  
  
• GuardLINK
  http://www.defenselink.mil/guardlink/
  Information on the National Guard, "hot spots" for the Guard around the United States, and the Annual Review reports for 1994 and 1995.
  
  
• ReserveLINK
  http://raweb.osd.mil/ReserveLink.htm
  Handy compilation of links to all the Service's Reserve programs: the Army, Air Force, Naval, Marine Corps Reserve and the Army National Guard, Air National Guard, and the Coast Guard Reserve.
  
  
• American Forces Press Service
  http://www.dtic.mil/afps/index.html
  AFPS provides news stories, feature articles, line art and photographs for editors of DoD publications, military service Public Affairs Officers, and news directors of DoD's broadcast media. Civilian news media are encouraged to download and publish information from this site. AFPS is available in electronic format only.

Other Public Affairs Efforts and Military Exercises

• U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, Office of the Chief, Public Affairs
  http://www-tradoc.army.mil/pao/index.html
  
  
• MobilityLINK, Air Mobility Command Public Affairs, Scott Air Force Base
  http://www.safb.af.mil/hqamc/pa/
  
  
• Headquarters, Air Force Personnel Center Public Affairs Office
  http://www.afpc.af.mil/publicaf/
  
  
• The Advanced Warfighting Experiment
  http://www.monroe.army.mil/pao/awe1.htm
  Information and links relating to the AWE held at Ft. Irwin, California, in April 1997.
  
  
• Tandem Thrust '97
  http://www.c7f.yokipc.navy.mil/dwnundr.html
  Tandem Thrust '97 was a U.S. Pacific Command-sponsored military exercise involving Australian and U.S. forces in Queensland, Australia in March 1997. 22,500 U.S. and 5,700 Australian military personnel participated in this exercise.
  
  
• Exercise Agile Lion
  No longer available at: http://www.eucom.mil/ecpa/exercises/agilelion/
  Agile Lion was an exercise conducted 11-25 July 1997 by the United States European Command "designed to demonstrate and to enhance the ability to provide humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations following a simulated civilian nuclear pow er plant accident. The exercise was a command post exercise which will test the ability to provide humanitarian assistance without major troop deployments to Europe." Participants included the government of Lithuania, the US European Command, and various US Government and international agencies.
  
  
• RIMPAC '96 (Rim of the Pacific)
  Rim Of The Pacific '96 was a U.S. Pacific Fleet exercise involving 30,000 Navy and Marine Corps forces from six Pacific Rim nations: Australia, Canada, Chile, Japan, Republic of Korea and the U.S. It was conducted 22 May - 21 June. Web site no longe r available.
  
  
• U.S. Navy Pacific Fleet
  http://www.cpf.navy.mil/
  
  
  • Pacific Fleet News and Information
    http://www.cpf.navy.mil/pages/cpfnews/cpfnews.htm
  
  
• U.S. Navy Seventh Fleet
  http://www.c7f.navy.mil/
  The Seventh Fleet Public Affairs Office has made a tremendous amount of information available about Seventh Fleet history, port call schedules, photos, composition (ships, aircraft, submarines), news, and much more available at this site.

Educational Institutions, Think Tanks and Research Labs

• Air Force Academy
  http://www.usafa.af.mil
  
  
• Naval Academy
  http://www.nadn.navy.mil/
  
  
• West Point
  http://www.usma.edu/
  
  
• Merchant Marine Academy
  http://www.usmma.edu/
  
  
• Coast Guard Academy
  http://www.dot.gov/dotinfo/uscg/hq/uscga/uscg.html
  The Coast Guard actually falls under the Department of Transportation but as many of its activities relate to the military, it is included here.
  
  
• The Naval Postgraduate School
  http://www.nps.navy.mil/
  
  
• Air University
  http://www.au.af.mil/
  
  
  • Air University Research Database
    http://www.au.af.mil/au/database/research.html
    This database contains information on all research being conducted at Air University and provides a link to the faculty member responsible for the research. Search or browse for information on research conducted 1995 to the present.
    
    
  • Air University Faculty Expertise Database Search Engine
    http://www.au.af.mil/au/database/expertise.html
    This expertise database compiles a list of all faculty and staff assigned to Air University, providing information on each individual's area(s) of expertise and research interests. Address, phone number, and email contact information is provided.
    
    
  • Air University Library
    http://www.airuniv.edu/au/aul/aulv2.htm
    
    
    • Air University Index to Military Periodicals
      http://132.60.136.133:8002/
      Search the AUL Index for military periodical literature for 1990-1996. Searches may be conducted by using keyword, title, author, or subject. There is a "simple" and an "advanced" interface. Click on the link for Geoweb and then click on AUL Index.
      
      
    • Aviation Images
      http://www.au.af.mil/au/aul/image/image.htm
      
      
    • Air University Library Bibliographies
      http://www.au.af.mil/au/aul/bibs/bib97.htm
      An extensive listing of bibliographies compiled to support the educational needs at Air University. Many, but not all, are linked to the actual bibliography. The bibliographies contain links to Internet resources and citations to books, documents, a nd journal articles.
  
  
• National Defense University
  http://www.ndu.edu/
  NDU is home to the Armed Forces Staff College, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Institute for National Strategic Studies, Information Resources Management College, National War Coll ege, and the NDU Library. NDU publishes research and other information primarily in the area of national security through the NDU Press and the Joint Force Quarterly. Some of the publications are accessible on the NDU web site in full text and may be searched for.
  
  
• Army Logistics Management College
  http://www.almc.army.mil/
  This site contains the full text of articles from Army Logistican dating from January 1996, a catalog of courses, and information on the Defense Logistics Studies Information Exchange (DLSIE) database which is not available on the Internet pl us links to a small number of sites.
  
  
• Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, PA
  http://carlisle-www.army.mil/
  Contains links to resident activities: the Center for Strategic Leadership, the Strategic Studies Institute, the Military History Institute, the Army Physical Fitness Research Institute, and the jour nal Parameters. A selection of the studies produced in the various research institutes is available here.
  
  
• Defense Systems Management College
  http://www.dsmc.dsm.mil
  The Defense Systems Management College (DSMC) was established in 1971 to provide systems acquisition education and training.
  
  
  • Acker Library
    http://www.dsmc.dsm.mil/library/library.htm
    Of special note is the online catalog for the Library's collection of acquisition and management related publications as well as the book lists which are bibliographies on subjects of interest to the DSMC and acquisition community.
  
  
• U.S. Military History Institute
  http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usamhi/
  Part of the U.S. Army War College, the Military History Institute is the U.S. Army's central repository for historical materials. It's mission is to collect, preserve, and make available to researchers source materials on Military History, especially American military history. Researchers may browse or search American Civil War Biographical Bibliographies, American Civil War Unit Bibliographies, Archives Database (electronic catalog of MHI's manuscript holdings), Normandy Photos Database, Photo Coll ection Database, Reference Bibliographies such as on the Airborne since WWII, and U.S. Army Unit Bibliographies.
  
  
• Foreign Military Studies Office, Ft. Leavenworth
  http://leav-www.army.mil/fmso/index1.htm
  Full text of many FMSO publications as well as a lengthy list of links on subjects of interest to the military such as information warfare and peacekeeping.
  
  
• Center for Army Lessons Learned, Ft. Leavenworth
  http://call.army.mil/call.html
  Valuable information here includes the CALL Dictionary and Thesaurus, a browseable database containing definitions of military terminology, acronyms, geographic codes, names of statesmen, milit ary leaders, UN peacekeeping operations, and other useful information and the CALL Database of information on Army tactics, techniques, procedures and other research materials. The CALL Database requires registration and is FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY, limited to DoD employees and US military personnel. There are also links to CALL prod ucts such as the CALL Newsletter List and Internet resources of interest such as those in the area of operations such as milita ry logistics.
  
  
• George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies
  http://www.marshall.adsn.int/marshall.html
  The Center provides instruction in national security affairs to Europe's senior defense officials, conducts research on European security issues, holds conferences on those issues, and conducts specialized regional studies and language training course s. A small number of publications are available in full text on the web site.
  
  
• Naval Research Laboratory
  http://www.nrl.navy.mil/
  The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is the Navy's corporate research and development laboratory. The lab addresses basic research issues concerning the Navy's environment of sea, sky, and space. Investigations have ranged widely from monitoring the sun's behavior, analyzing marine atmospheric conditions, measuring parameters of the deep oceans, to exploring the outermost regions of space.
  • Ruth H. Hooker Library
    http://infoweb.nrl.navy.mil/
    The Library has an extensive list of links in the Sciences and other areas.
  
  
• United States Marine Corps Research Center
  http://138.156.203.52/www/mcrc.htm
  
  
  • Marine Corps University Libraries
    http://138.156.203.52/www/library/library.htm
    Of special note are bibliographies such as "International Threats, Terrorism, And Foreign Policy: List Of Internet Links" and The New Scien ce Collection, a bibliography of Internet links in the subject areas: Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Life, Artificial Life Simulation and Research Groups, Autonomous Agents, Cellular Automata, Chaos, Fractals, Fuzzy Logic, Genetic Algorithms, Gen etic Programming, Intelligent Software Agents, Neural Nets, Nonlinear Dynamics, Software, and Time-Series Analysis.
    

Business Opportunities

• DoD Costing References Homepage
  http://www.dtic.mil/dodim/costweb.html
  
  
• Central Contractor Registration
  http://ccr.edi.disa.mil/
  The purpose of the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) process is to facilitate registration by a commercial company as a Trading Partner with the Federal Government.
  
  
• DefenseLINK's Doing Business with the Department of Defense
  http://www.defenselink.mil/other_info/business.html
  
  
• Defense Logistics Agency (DLA)
  http://www.dla.mil/
  Note the small business opportunity links on DLA's home page.
  
  
  • Doing Business with the Defense Logistics Agency
    http://www.dla.mil/doing.htm
  
  
• ACQWeb
  http://www.acq.osd.mil/
  A wealth of acquisition related information can be found at this site. In addition to the business opportunity information, the Acquisition Reform Home Page is of special note for its detailed lists of publica tions, events, and links to other acquisition reform sites.
  
  
  • Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization Office
    http://www.acq.osd.mil/sadbu/
    
    
  • DoD SBIR and STTR Home Page
    http://www.acq.osd.mil/sadbu/sbir/homepg.htm
    
    
  • Women-Owned Small Business Resources
    http://www.acq.osd.mil/sadbu/wosb/resources.html
  
  
• DoD Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR)
  http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/sbir/
  The SBIR and STTR programs aim to foster participation by small firms in high-tech research and development.
  
  
• Air Force Acquisition Home Page
  http://www.safaq.hq.af.mil/
  
  
  • Air Force Contracting
    http://www.safaq.hq.af.mil/contracting/
    
    
  • Air Force Business Opportunities on the Web
    http://www.safaq.hq.af.mil/contracting/biz_opty.html
    Currently there are links to 10 AF Major Commands (MAJCOMS) that host "Business Opportunity" web sites as well as links to other Federal Government business opportunity sites including the Commerce Business Daily v ia the Government Printing Office.
  
  
• Air Force Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization
  http://www.safsb.hq.af.mil/
  
  
• Air Force Materiel Command Business Opportunities on the Web
  http://www.hq.af.mil/SAFAQ/contracting/business_oppty/afmc.html
  Links to information on business opportunities at Air Logistics Centers, Product Centers, Laboratories, and Test Centers.
  
  
• Army Research Laboratory
  http://info.arl.army.mil/
  
  
  • ARL Contracting Home Page
    http://w3.arl.mil/contracts/
    
    
  • ARL Technology Transfer Home Page
    http://www.arl.mil/tto/index.html
  
  
• Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) Headquarters Contracts Directorate
  http://www.contracts.hq.navsea.navy.mil/
  
  
• Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport, Commercial Acquisition Department
  http://www.npt.nuwc.navy.mil/contracts/
  NUWC posts: Announcements (current synopses of upcoming solicitations, special notices, contract awards, Broad Agency Announcements and announcements as published in the Commerce Business Daily); Solicitations (listing of our current open solicitations, announcement as published in the CBD, statement of work, personnel qualification sheets, entire solicitation t o review and download); Information Documents (draft solicitations and other advance planning information regarding upcoming solicitations); and Points of Contact (information on key personnel within the Division).
  
  
• Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division
  http://www.ntsc.navy.mil/contract/procure.htm
  Requests for proposals are listed here.
  
  
• The Office of Naval Research: Business Opportunities
  http://www.onr.navy.mil/02/bus_op.htm
  Opportunities for small businesses. Contains information on and links to: Broad Agency Announcements at ONR and NRL; information on How to Submit a Proposal; the U.S. Navy SBIR Online Submission Interface; the Navy SBIR/STTR Bulletin Board; the D oD SBIR/STTR HomePage; the ONR SBIR Program; the Navy SBIR Technology Tranfer Program, the Navy Small Business Technology Transfer Pilot Program (STTR); and the Office of Small Business.
  
  
• Tri-Service Solicitation Network
  http://tsn.wes.army.mil/
  A selection of solicitations from the Army Corps of Engineers, Navy, and Air Force are listed here.

Practical Information -- Facts, Figures, Definitions, Jobs

• DoD Organizations and Functions Guidebook
  http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/ofg.html
  This Guide outlines the functions of the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), Defense Agencies, and DoD Field Activities.
  
  
• DFAS Lane
  http://www.dfas.mil/
  This is the place to view current military and civilian pay charts. You can also find information about military pay, civilian pay, retired and annuitant pay, vendor pay, travel pay, transportation pay, garnishment and involuntary allotments, and gove rnment credit card programs. DFAS customers can also find help with a pay or debt problem.
  
  
• HQ Air Force Personnel Center
  http://www.afpc.af.mil/
  There is a great deal of useful information on Air Force personnel issues, for both civilian and military personnel. Of particular note are: demographics on military and civilian personnel; Officer and Enlisted assignments; the AF Civilian Career Management Program; military promotion information; information on awards including a graphic for each, and training materials for new supervisors.
  
  
• The Directorate of Time at the U.S. Naval Observatory
  http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/
  When you need to know the official time in the United States, visit this site.
  
  
• Sunrise/Sunset/Twilight and Moonrise/Moonset/Phase
  http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/srss.html
  Calculate the sunrise, sunset, twilight, moonrise, moonset and phase times for U.S. locations.
  
  
• CALL Dictionary
  http://call.army.mil/call/thesaur/index.htm
  This continually updated database by the Center for Army Lessons Learned contains definitions of military terminology, acronyms, geographic codes, names of statesmen, military leaders, UN peacekeeping operations, and other useful information. In add ition to the definition, there are links to related terms and an ability to execute the search in Yahoo by selecting the link, "search this term on the WWW."
  
  
• DoD Dictionary of Military Terms
  http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/doddict/
  Browse or search for definition and usage of terms in the DoD Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms.
  
  
• ADTL Acronym Database
  http://www.atsc-army.org/atdl/search/acronym.htm
  Search for the meaning of military acronyms, for which the DoD is deservedly famous! This database is courtesy of the Army Digital Training Library.
  
  
• DoD Education Gateway
  http://www.acq.osd.mil/ddre/edugate/
  Look here for information on educational programs, scholarships and apprenticeships, parterships, and other programs sponsored by DoD.
  
  
• Worldwide Defense Switch Network (DSN) Telephone Directory
  http://dsnbbs.ncr.disa.mil/phone96/dsndir96.txt
  To view other formats for the 1996 Directory, go to: http://dsnbbs.ncr.disa.mil/
  
  
• Per Diem, Travel, and Transportation Allowance Committee
  http://www.dtic.mil/perdiem/
  
  
• Army Civilian Personnel Online
  http://cpol.army.mil
  Search for a job, view publications in the Army Civilian Personnel Management Library, find information on training and career development.
  
  
• Defense Logistics Agency Administrative Support Center's World Wide HR
  http://www.worldwidehr.hq.dla.mil/
  An example of human resources information for a particular organization. DLA employees and others can look at vacancy announcements and review personnel literature at this site.
  
  
• SITES - Standard Installation Topic Exchange Service
  http://www.dmdc.osd.mil/sites/
  Terrific resource about military installations in the United States and around the world. Brief overviews of each installation along with information on the local community, housng, support services, employment, and other topics are available at the click of a mouse.
  
  
• MAPsite - Military Assistance Program
  http://dticaw.dtic.mil/mapsite/
  Visit here for information on and links to resources to aid the military family in transition. Resources include information on installations, moving benefits, child care, finance, and tips for teens whose military parents are "on the move."

Collections of Publications, Regulations, Forms, Technical Reports, and ...

• Air University Index to Military Periodicals
  http://132.60.136.133:8002/
  Follow the path to the Air University Index which currently can be searched or browsed for the years 1990 to 1996.
  
  
• The Air Force FAR Site
  http://farsite.hill.af.mil/
  Not just of interest to the Air Force! Visit this site for anything to do with Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS), Air Force Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (AFFARS), and other a cquisition regulations. Use the search capability to find what you need. Be sure to read the Help information on the rules for searching. There are three search options: simple, power, summary.
  
  
• HQ, Air Force Personnel Management and Information System
  http://www.afpc.af.mil/dps/dpsi/permiss/permiss/permiss.htm
  PERMISS contains information on over 400 areas of civilian personnel management and is organized in two ways. By an alphabetical index or by seven subject matter areas such as General Management Information, Equal Employment Opportunity, etc. In addition, each topic selected contains regulatory references and links to related subject areas. To aid managers, th ere are sample letters for performance and disciplinary actions along with forms.
  
  
• U.S. Air Force Departmental Publishing Directorate SAF/AAD
  http://afpubs.hq.af.mil/
  This is the "official source" for Air Force administrative publications and forms.
  
  
• Air Force Material Command (AFMC) Publishing Distribution Library
  http://www.afmc.wpafb.af.mil/pdl/
  This is a marvellous resource for USAF and AFMC publications, selected technical orders, and forms. Follow the links for access to:
  
  
  • HQ, USAF Departmental Publications
    http://www.afmc.wpafb.af.mil/pdl/af/
    Come here for the full text (in MSWord or PDF) of Air Force Publications Bulletins (PBs), Air Force Indexes (AFINDs), Air Force Supplements to DOD Issuances (DODAFSUPs), Air Force Doctrine Documents (AFDDs), Air Force Mission Directives (AFMDs), Air Force FAR Supplement (AFFARS), and Air Force Publications by Functional Series (AFPDs, AFIs, AFMANs, etc.). Use the search interface when looking for a specific Air Force publication.
    
    
  • Major Air Command and Air Force Field Operating Agency (FOA) Publishing Libraries/Product
    http://www.afmc.wpafb.af.mil/pdl/majfoa.htm
  
  
• Technology Area Plans via the Air Force Materiel Command's Directorate of Science and Technology
  http://www.afmc.wpafb.af.mil/STBBS/info/taps/taps.htm
  Technology Area Plans in Portable Document Format are available here. TAP Annexes and Contractors Supplements are available for viewing on-line on a secure web site which requires registration.
  

• Army Doctrine and Training Digital Library
  http://www.atsc-army.org/atdls.html
  The US Army Training and Doctrine Command has made available approved training and doctrine information. Some publications are not available for public access, authorized users (U.S. Government agencies and their contractors) must register to receive a password in order to view these materials. Some documents are in portable document format and require the free Adobe Acrobat viewer.
  
  
  • ATDL Document Type
    http://www.atsc-army.org/atdl/browse/doc_type.htm
    Selected Army Field Manuals (FMs) (422! as of 4 November 1997, of those 224 are publicly releaseable), Training Circulars (TCs), Soldier's Manuals, Mission Training Plans, and other training publications in full text.
    
    
  • Joint and Other Publications
    http://www.atsc-army.org/atdl/browse/othrsvc.htm
    There are also links to publications of other Services such as the Marine Corps as well as Joint publications.
  
  
• Army Publishing Agency
  http://www-usappc.hoffman.army.mil/index.html
  Information on and full text of many Army regulations and a few other publications. Internet access to full-text is limited to DoD organizations. Once registered, DoD organizations may download a copy of the IBM Bookmaster Viewer which is required t o view the full-text. Non DoD organizations must go to:
  
  
  • The National Technical Information Service's Army Manuals and Publications Search Site
    http://www.ntis.gov/databases/armypub.htm
    Those outside DoD who cannot use the Army Publishing Agency may order the same Army publications (such as Army Technical Manuals (TM's), Field Manuals (FM's), Army Regulations (AR's), and Technical Bulletins (TB)) from NTIS. A search mechanism is pro vided to identify materials for ordering.
  
  
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Publications
  http://www.usace.army.mil/inet/usace-docs/
  This collection of publications contains all official USACE engineering regulations, circulars, manuals, forms, specifications, and other documents originating from HQUSACE. At present, as only a portion of the publications are available in full text on the Internet, its value lies in its comprehensive listing of Corps of Engineers publications. Those publications that are available are in portable document format which requires the free Adobe Acrobat reader.
  
  
• Army Financial Management WWW
  http://134.11.192.15/
  
  
  • Resource Management Publications
    http://134.11.192.15/pubs/pubs.htm
    Look here for publications dealing with Army financial management such as the 1998 Army Budget.
  
  

• Marine Corps Doctrine Manuals
  http://138.156.107.3/docdiv/manuals.htm
  As the site says, "Life's tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid!"
  
  

• DoD Contracting Regulations
  http://www.dtic.mil/contracts/
  DoD contracting regulations and related information, including the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS), the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), open FAR cases, open DFARS cases, and Defense Acquisition Circulars (DACs), are ava ilable electronically via this site.
  
  
• DoD Acquisitions Systems Management Publications
  http://www.acq.osd.mil/api/asm/product.html
  The full text of the following are available in Word or Portable Document Format: DoDD 5000.1 -- Acquisition Policy Directive; DoD 5000.2-R -- Acquisition Policy Regulation; and the six appendices to DoD 5000.2-R.
  
  
• Joint Doctrine
  http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/
  Joint Doctrine refers to the fundamental principles that guide the employment of forces of two or more Services in coordinated action toward a common objective. Click on the link for the Joint Electronic Library for the full text of publications and r esearch papers (some of which require the Adobe Acrobat reader) on joint doctrine.
  
  
• DoD's Directorate for Information Operations and Reports
  http://web1.whs.osd.mil/DIORHOME.HTM
  A veritable gold mine for statistical information on the Department of Defense, particularly in the areas of procurement and manpower. Some of the reports are available in full text online, others are present only in sample form. See the catalog of publications for a listing of all available reports. DTIC's user community may order these directly from DTIC. The general public must order from NTIS.
  
  
  • DIOR Manpower Management Information Division
    http://web1.whs.osd.mil/mmid/mmidhome.htm
    This web site contains information on military and civilian manpower statistics. For example: totals for active duty personnel by rank and grade, numbers of females by rank and grade; casualty figures from October 1979; rosters of General Flag Officers; numbers of civilian personnel by organization and function; and a glossary of military terminology used by DIOR.
    
    
  • DIOR Procurement and Economic Information Division
    http://web1.whs.osd.mil/peidhome/peidhome.htm
    PEID collects information and statistics on the procurement process. For example statistics on: the 100 companies receiving the largest dollar volume of prime contract awards f or FY96 with the top ten cited for FY 95 and FY96; awards over $25,000; prime contract awards by state for FY96; as well as procurement guidance and the DoD Catalog of Federal Domes tic Assistance.
    
    
  • DIOR Information Control Division
    http://web1.whs.osd.mil/icdhome/icdhome.htm
    DoD Forms are available here in either Perform Pro/Form FLow electronic formats. Also available here is a handy chart of links to forms for other organizations, such as the Air Force, Army, Of fice of Management and Budget, the US Postal Service, standard and optional forms, Secretary of Defense, plus forms arranged by major subject groups (such as personnel, training, travel).
    
    
• Washington Headquarters Services Directives and Records Branch Home Page
  http://web7.whs.osd.mil/corres.htm
  Browse or search for directives and instructions.
  
  
• DoD Index of Specifications and Standards
  http://www.dtic.mil/stinet/htgi/dodiss/
  DoD Index of Specifications and Standards (DODISS) lists the unclassified Federal and Military specifications, standards, and related standardization documents, and those non-government standards adopted for DoD use. Users may construct a fairly sophisticated search (look at the tips) but only the citation for the standard is returned. Users must then order from:
  
  
  • DoD Single Stock Point for Specifications and Standards
    http://www.dodssp.daps.mil/
    According to the DODSSP, this site is the official point of access to the "most up-to-date collection of over 50,000 Military Specifications, Standards, and related documents available on the market today."
  
  
• STINET (Scientific and Technical Information Network)
  http://www.dtic.mil/stinet/
  Search here to identify publicly releaseable technical reports produced by Department of Defense agencies. STINET provides a WAIS search interface to the last 11 years of the publicly releaseable (unclassified unlimited) portion of DTIC's Technical Re port bibliographic database (approximately 400,000 citations) along with an assortment of other resources. Links to other databases of technical reports such as NASA and DOE are found here and may be searched at the STINET site. Also available is a link to the Research and Development Descriptive Summaries, commonly called RDDS or PEDS. RDDS depository includes narrative information on Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) Programs and Program Elemen ts (PE Numbers) within the Department of Defense. For .mil and .gov users, a database of gray literature is also available.
  
  
• Secure STINET
  https://www-sec.dtic.mil/S-STINET/
  Available only to DTIC's user community, this passworded site provides access to the last 11 years of unclassified portion of the Technical Reports bibliographic database (approximately 470,000 citations), including limited. Five years worth of Work Unit Information Summaries (WUIS) records will be available here as well. Users must have the domestic version of Netscape 1.2 or higher due to encryption requirements. For information on registration, please contact DTIC's Online Services Registration Branch, 703-767-8272 or DSN 427-8272.
  
  
• MATRIS
  http://dticam.dtic.mil/
  
  
  • Directory of Design Support Methods
    http://dticam.dtic.mil/hsi/
    
    
  • Directory of Researchers
    http://dticam.dtic.mil/resdir/
  
  
• GulfLINK
  http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/
  GulfLINK is the official home page for the Persian Gulf War Veterans Illnesses Task Force. This service provides background information and up-to-date research and analysis of the issues related to illnesses affecting Persian Gulf War veterans.
  
  
• Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Center for Standards
  http://www.itsi.disa.mil/
  Excellent site for information on DoD's information technology standards.
  
  
  • DISA's Information Technology Standards Document Library
    http://www.itsi.disa.mil/cfs/itsi_lib.html
    The Library's purpose is to provide a central on-line source for the policies, guidance, standards, and other references related to building affordable, maintainable, and interoperable standards-based information systems for the DOD.
  
  
• Defense Acquisition Deskbook
  http://www.deskbook.osd.mil/
  Acquisition information available for download from this site. DoD personnel may request a CD ROM version for free, contractors must pay $35 and order through the Government Printing Office. Defense Acquisition Deskbook's Reference Library contains numerous acquisition publications. The Reference Library divides the publications in two categories; Mandatory Documents and Discretionary Documents. The Mandatory Documents include directives and regulations (e.g. US Code, Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), DFARS, DoDD 5000.1 and DoD 5000.2-R). The Discretionary Documents include guides, pamphlets, and handbooks. Also notable at this site is a collection of acquisition related links.
  
  
• Defense Link Photos
  http://www.defenselink.mil/photos/
  Browse or search for publicly releaseable official U.S. military photos from around the world.
  
  
  • Joint Combat Camera Center
    http://dodimagery.afis.osd.mil/home.html
    This site contains official U.S. Military images from around the world and is restricted to Department of Defense and Government personnel. The images at this Web site are available by searching or browsing. Some of the images present may not have yet been cleared for public release.
  
  
• Joint Data Base Elements for Modeling and Simulation
  http://208.145.129.4
  Links to data models, databases, tools and utilities, projects, and more for those interested in military M&S. Registration is required for access to some of the information.

• DTIC Internet Resources
  http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/dtic-inet.html
  
  
• Joint Internet Resources
  http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/joint-inet.html

On the Horizon!

• The Air University Index to Military Periodicals
  Under development at DTIC, the Air University Index from 1990 to the present will be available for searching on DTIC's Web site. The citations will contain a link, if one exists, to the journal on the Internet. Keep an eye on the DTIC Home Page!

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