Acquisition & Contracting

The Defense Acquisition Visibility Environment (DAVE) provides Department of Defense personnel with access to accurate, authoritative, and reliable data to support acquisition oversight, insight, analysis, and decision-making. DAVE is the authoritative source for Program Information for major programs and provides access to data and capabilities that can give you material for analysis, as a student, and for doing your job, as an acquisition professional.  

Capabilities in DAVE:

• Acquisition Information Repository (AIR)
  (AIR account required)
  Access milestone documents for ACAT I and some lower ACAT programs.

• Acquisition Visibility Data Framework (ADVF)
  Need to understand Acquisition data in context? The AVDF provides the Acquisition community a set of integrated products supporting the Acquisition Visibility Data Matrix (AVDM). The AVDF establishes a data standard for DoD that integrates existing AV data components within the context of a use case.

• Cost & Funding Chart 
  Captures the primary acquisition and sustainment program budgets and funds-required estimates

• Data Opportunities Visualization
  Identify sources of data to use in solving Acquisition problems

• Data Sets
  Raw data for analysis

• Program Submissions
  View or create Program Submissions, such as Program Identification Data (PID) submissions for Middle Tier of Acquisition (MTA) programs, Program Progress Submissions (PPS) , or Acquisition Program Baseline (APB) submissions.

• Reference Environment for the Business of Acquisition (REBA)
  Information about Defense Acquisition data: where to find it, who has responsibility for it, what policies govern it, and more.

• SAR/MAR Catalog
  Authoritative Selected Acquisition Report (SAR) and Major Automated Information System (MAIS) Annual Report (MAR) that were submitted to Congress

With links to other acquisition sites:

• Cost Assessment Data Enterprise (CADE)
• (CADE account required)
  Access data and visualizations to support cost analysis
   
• Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System (CPARS)
  Document contractor and grantee performance information
   
• Defense Repository for Common Enterprise Data (ADVANA)
  Shared-service platform for all common enterprise data
   
• Earned Value Management Central Repository (EVM-CR)
  Centralized reporting, collection, and distribution of Earned Value data
   
• Federal Procurement Data System Next Generation (FPDS-NG)
  Authoritative source for summary-level Federal procurement data. US government-wide procurement data. It contains information on contracts whose estimated value is $3,000 or more or that may be $3,000 or more, including every modification to that contract, regardless of dollar value.
   
• Milestone Document Identification (MDID)
  Statutory and regulatory information requirements tool
   
• USASpending.gov
  Public access to information on how tax dollars are spent.