Other Sources of DoD Records
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Defense Technical Information Center. Access to the STINET is available to the general public, free of charge. It provides access to citations of unclassified unlimited/approved for public release documents that have been entered into the Defense Technical Information Center Technical Reports Collection, as well as the electronic full-text of many of these documents. The public STINET also provides access to the Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals, Staff College Automated Military Periodical Index, DoD Index to Specifications and Standards, and Research and Development Descriptive Summaries. Ordering Printed Documents: Printed documents may be ordered only by registered DTIC users. The general public can order DTIC documents from the National Technical Information Service (NTIS).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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GovernmentDocs.org. 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.
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Genealogy - FamilySearch.org. FamilySearch.org is a
non-profit service sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Church believes that every person is important and that families are meant to be both sacred and eternal. The Church encourages all people to find their ancestors and preserve their family histories. To help in this great pursuit, the Church has been actively gathering and preserving
genealogical records worldwide for over 100 years. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints learned that interest in family history is not limited by culture, ethnicity or religious faith. People around the world are innately and intensely interested in their family heritage. Because the Church's family history efforts are funded by charitable donations, it freely offers its resources to anyone interested in finding their family's roots.
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Footnote.com. 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.
GovernmentAttic.org. 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.
