Other Sources of DoD Records

• Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC).
  All visitors can search DTIC´s publicly accessible collections and read or download scientific and technical information, using DTIC Online service. DTIC also makes available sensitive and classified information to eligible users who register for DTIC services.


• National Technical Information Service (NTIS).
  The National Technical Information Service serves as our nation's largest central source for government-sponsored scientific, technical, engineering, and related business information. NTIS has over 3 million information titles in its collection.


• National Archives and Records Administration


• George W. Bush Presidential Library


• William J. Clinton Presidential Library


• George Bush Presidential Library


• Ronald Reagan Presidential Library


• Other Presidential Libraries


• The National Archives at College Park


• Military History Centers and Museums (PDF | 40 KB)


• The National Security Archive, George Washington University.
  An independent non-governmental research institute and library located at The George Washington University, the Archive collects and publishes declassified documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. The Archive also serves as a repository of government records on a wide range of topics pertaining to the national security, foreign, intelligence, and economic policies of the United States.  The Archive is our most frequent requester, with their requests representing approximately one third of our overall workload.  Consequently, the Archive is a good source of DoD information.


• DoD Publications Archive


• The Center for Public Integrity-Databases
  The Center for Public Integrity is a nonprofit organization dedicated to producing original, responsible investigative journalism on issues of public concern. The website contains a variety of documents from the Department of Defense and other Federal agencies, all searchable using subject specific databases.


• Governtment Docs
  GovernmentDocs.org is a project of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), in partnership with several other non-profit organizations (e.g., Electronic Frontier Foundation, Project on Government Oversight (POGO), Public Citizen, The Sunlight Foundation). The website contains documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act from the Department of Defense and other Federal agencies.


• Pentagon Library


• Military Services History Offices
  
  • United States Air Force
  • United States Army
  • United States Coast Guard *
  • United States Marine Corps
  • United States Navy
• Footnote
  The National Archives and Footnote.com are working as partners to bring unprecedented access to selections of the vast holdings of the National Archives. See NARA press release. Please note that FootNote.com is a fee -based service, but select groupings of records are available at no cost.


• Government Attic
  This site claims to make available materials that are unavailable elsewhere. According to the site, there is no topic-oriented theme to their content. They further state that if they have a theme, it is one of openness. They have a number of FOIA logs posted for various agencies.

* USCG is a component of the Dept. of Homeland Security, not DoD.