Website Security & Privacy
Notices
On behalf of the
Director, Defense Research and Engineering and Deputy
Director, Defense Research and Engineering, we welcome you to the
Defense Research and Engineering Official Website.
Disclaimer for External Links
The appearance of external hyperlinks
does not constitute endorsement by the United States Department of
Defense of the linked web sites, or the information, products or
services contained therein. For other than authorized activities such as
Office of Technology Transition sites, the United States Department of
Defense does not exercise any editorial control over the information you
may find at these non-DoD locations.
Please let us know about existing
external links which you believe are inappropriate and about specific
additional external links which you believe ought to be included.
Privacy and Security
Notice
1. DR&E Website is provided as a
public service by the
Director, Defense Research and Development and the
Defense Technical
Information Center.
2. Information presented on DR&E Website
is considered public information and may be distributed or copied unless
otherwise specified. Use of appropriate byline/photo/image credits is
requested.
3. For site management, information is
collected for statistical purposes. This government computer system uses
software programs to create summary statistics, which are used for such
purposes as assessing what information is of most and least interest,
determining technical design specifications, and identifying system
performance or problem areas.
4 .For site security purposes and to
ensure that this service remains available to all users, this government
computer system employs software programs to monitor network traffic to
identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or
otherwise cause damage.
5.Except for authorized law enforcement
investigations, no other attempts are made to identify individual users
or their usage habits. Raw data logs are used for no other purposes and
are scheduled for regular destruction in accordance with National
Archives and Records Administration guidelines.
6.Unauthorized attempts to upload
information or change information on this service are strictly
prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.
7. If you have any questions or comments
about the information presented here, please forward them to the
DR&E Website
webauthor.
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and forth from the client machine to the server). DR&E may use session
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order to make the site easier to use. The Department of Defense DOES NOT
keep a database of information obtained from these cookies. You can
choose not to accept these cookies and still use the site, but it may
take you longer to fill out the same information repeatedly and clicking
on the banners will not take you to the correct link. Refer to the help
information in your browser software for instructions on how to disable
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for Military Webmasters is posted on DefenseLINK that you can view by
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of factors, including the format of the original document, whether the
look of the original document needed to be preserved, the availability
of visitors to open different formats, and accessibility for those with
physical limitations. This does not constitute endorsement of one
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