USAFA Library Guides: Government Documents: Technical Reports

Government Issued or Sponsored Reports

Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) This link opens in a new window
DTIC serves the community as the largest central resource for DoD and government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information available today.

NACA Archive from AERADE team of Cranfield University
"The Aerade Reports Archive incorporates more than ten thousand, historically significant, digitised reports from: The Aeronautical Research Council (ARC) - the principal agency in Great Britain with a major output of reports on matters aeronautical, which existed from 1909-1979, and published reports until 1980 and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) - chartered in 1915 and operational from 1917-1958."

NASA Technical Reports Server This link opens in a new window
Access to unlimited and unrestricted NASA and NACA reports and journal articles which support the advancement aerospace knowledge.
Science.gov This link opens in a new window
Access to research and development (R&D) results and scientific and technical information from scientific organizations across 13 federal agencies including: Department of Energy, Defense Technical Information Center, Department of Education, National Library of Medicine, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Transportation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Commerce

U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board (SAB)
List of SAB studies: https://www.scientificadvisoryboard.af.mil/Studies
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SAB consists of experts in science, technology, engineering, and technical program leadership who are appointed by the Secretary of Defense. Each year the Board is tasked to conduct studies on topics critical to the Air Force Mission.
Air Force Culture and Language Center
Expeditionary Culture Field Guides (ECFGs) with information about overseas locations to include: cultural, language, and relevant country news sources; mobile app available (iOS, Android)
-- Wall Street Journal, WSJ

Additional Resources

RAND Corporation
The RAND Corporation is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis focusing on issues such as national security, international affairs, military affairs and more.
TRAIL - Technical Report Archive & Image Library
TRAIL identifies, acquires, catalogs, digitizes and provides unrestricted access to U.S. government agency technical reports.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Science and Technology Organization (STO)
Search STO and The Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development (AGARD) Scientific Publications

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Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) This link opens in a new window
Government Publishing Office index to official government publications in all formats. Many items in the catalog have links to full text online versions.

EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS)
Search McDermott Library's Discovery Service for books articles, and more
Search Prospector
Search other Colorado academic library systems plus the University of Wyoming.

Quick Search

Try searching Google, typing your keyword(s) with site:gov in Google’s search box. You can narrow the search to a certain department or agency, for example: space system site:gao.gov will narrow your results to documents from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and site:ntrs.nasa.gov will search the NASA technical reports server.

You can also limit your searches to other domains such as .mil and .edu ; refine results by date; or search for a specific type of file results. As an example, entering file:.pdf will only return PDF results: aircraft fatigue site:ntrs.nasa.gov filetype:pdf

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