This is a Department of Defense web site. It is provided as a service to you. We have to monitor files and activities to protect the integrity of this site. We pull statistics to see who our visitors are, how many of you are visiting, and what pages are being used the most. This helps us make the site more useful to you. The inclusion of links to other web sites does not mean we endorse them. The formal legal statement follows below.

This web site is provided as a service to the Department of Defense (DoD) and its customers. This computer system (including all related equipment, networks, and network devices--specifically including internet access), is provided only for authorized U.S. Government use. DoD computer systems may be monitored for all lawful purposes, including to ensure that their use is authorized for management to the system, to facilitate protection against unauthorized access, and to verify security procedures, survivability and operational security. Monitoring includes active attacks by authorized DoD entities to test or verify the security of this system. During monitoring, information may be examined, recorded, copied, and used for authorized purposes.

Use of this DoD computer system, authorized or unauthorized, constitutes consent to monitoring of this system. Unauthorized use may subject you to criminal prosecution. Evidence of unauthorized use collected during monitoring may be used for administrative, criminal or other adverse action. Use of this system constitutes consent to monitoring for these purposes.

The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) is committed to protecting the privacy rights of our web site visitors. The DLA web pages may offer you the opportunity to ask questions, request information, or provide comments. Use of this option is voluntary and may require an e-mail address. Aside from site management and site security purposes discussed above, your data will only be used for the purposes you provided it. In those instances where we do not have the data necessary to answer your question or cannot provide the requested information, we may forward your e-mail address and comment or question to the appropriate agency for purposes of responding. Any information you provide will be destroyed after the purpose has been fulfilled and in compliance with National Archives and Records Administration requirements.

For site management, information is collected for statistical purposes. Information collected is the site the user is coming from and the pages accessed. This government agency 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. In some instances, session cookies are used to maintain state and session contol but expire at the end of the logical session.

The appearance of hyperlinks does not constitute endorsement of the linked web site or the information, products or services contained therein. Such links are provided consistent with the stated purpose of this DoD web site.