A large, but not comprehensive collection of U.S. governmental websites in the areas of Finance and Trade, Federal procurement, defense, government information, and technology and science.
US tax forms
Federal Reserve Economic Data bbs
Maintained by the St. Louis Federal Reserve this excellent site contains links to a
variety of other Fed Reserve sites, publications, economic and financial research sources
and financial data.
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Information from the SEC and links to SEC filings through EDGAR for no fee.
U.S. Department of Treasury Web Server
Good site for financial information, news, links.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Very good website with a great deal of information and reports on bank compliance, banking
statistics, asset information and a banking and FDIC library.
National Trade Data Bank
The National Trade Data Bank (NTDB) is the U.S. Government's most comprehensive source of
international trade data and export promotion information. Types of information on the
NTDB include: International Market Research, Export Opportunities; Indices of foreign and
domestic companies; how-to market guides; Reports on demographic, political, and
socio-economic conditions for hundreds of countries; and much more.
United States International Trade Commission
The USITC is an independent, quasi-judicial federal agency that provides objective trade
expertise to both the legislative and executive branches of government, determines the
impact of imports on U.S. industries, and directs actions against certain unfair trade
practices, such as patent, trademark, and copyright infringement. USITC analysts and
economists investigate and publish reports on U.S. industries and the global trends that
affect them. The agency also updates and publishes the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the
United States, available through the WWW.
FinanceNet Web Site
The Internet's home for public financial management worldwide. It was established by Vice
President Gore's National Performance Review in Washington, D.C. in 1994 and is operated
by the National Science Foundation (a Federal agency) under sponsorship of the U.S. Chief
Financial Officers Council. FinanceNet reaches across geopolitical boundaries to link
financial management administrators, educators and taxpayers worldwide to catalyze
continuous improvements in the productivity of government personnel and in the stewardship
and accountability for taxpayer resources.
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
Website features an FAQ about PBGC guaranteed benefits, PBGC publications and technical
material including regulations, interest rate charts and Technical Updates.
Small Business Administration
Quite a good site featuring SBA information, news and technical date, SBA property for
sale, software and links to other business and governmental resources.
EC/EDI & CALS Resource Locator
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Procurement
Home Page
Includes a list of contracts put out for bid by NASA under the link, "Business
Opportunities."
Federal Acquistion Institute
Website for the Federal Acquisition Institute, an organization developed to train and
support government staff involved in acquisitions process.
Defense Logistics Service Center
The military's logistics and supplies support center.
National Technology Transfer Center
NTTC, established by Congress, is the hub of a national network linking U.S. companies
with federal laboratories to turn government research results into practical,
commercially-relevant technology. The center's free Gateway Service, staffed by
specialists in biology, physics, chemistry, computer sciences, and various branches of
engineering, provides private sector callers with person-to-person contacts in the federal
laboratory system.
DefenseLINK
Defense Logistics Service Center
The military's logistics and supplies support center.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Extensive data files and technical reports available for access and/or downloading. Nice
picture of a general reviewing the troops.
Central Intelligence Agency
US CIA World Factbook
This site has been recently shut down due to a high publicity hacking event. If it
returns, it contains very helpful political, economic and demographic information about
every country in the world.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
Website from the Japanese Foreign Affairs office, includes some news and business
information.
Bureau of Justice
Copyright
Clearinghouse for copyright laws, decisions, regulations, register of copyrights, etc.
from Cornell's Legal Information Institute.
U.S. Department of Justice
Average site from DOJ, lots of news, press releases, links to subject specific pages
including FBI pages.
FBI homepage
Features FBI investigations, public statements, hearings (including Senate hearings on
Ruby Ridge), statistical information and the 10 Most Wanted list.
Cap Web
A guide to the U.S. Congress, includes links to Members web pages and e-mail, links to
other congressionally-oriented sites.
Congressional Directory
Gopher information on members, committees, caucuses, etc.
Federal Elections Commission
Includes financial information on parties, candidates and PACs, as well as
"how-to" information on conforming to FEC rules, includes reporting forms.
Senate Gopher Site
Helpful mainly for directory information, includes member press releases, etc.
Library of Congress's Thomas
Legislative Information on the Internet. A well-known, excellent full-text source for
bills, reports, Congressional Record and other congressional information.
House of Representatives Gopher Site
House of Representatives Web Server
Sites from the U.S. House, the Web site in particular features the excellent Internet Law
Library
NASA Ames Research Center
Census Bureau
Large volume of demographic and statistical documents available online- or by ordering
through the web site.
U.S. Census Information
Gopher site at Rice University providing a substantial collection of Census and other
demographic information.
U.S. Department of Commerce
Fairly bland server with information about the DoC, but little substance other than links
to other government and private web sites.
U.S. General Services Administration
The government's business management department. Information about buying from and selling
to the government.
Consumer Information Center
Full-text editions of a number of the Pueblo, CO based agencies publications, along with
indexes and order forms for the rest of their material.
U.S. Information Agency
Agency charged with promoting the U.S. in foreign lands. Website includes policies and
regulations on international exchange and other matters.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Includes grant application information, testimony and news.
U.S. Department of Education
"Award-Winning" site from DoE.
Science, Environmental Protection, Technology and Energy Sites
The Alternative Fuels Data Center
The Alternative Fuels Data Center (AFDC), the nation's most comprehensive source for
information on alternative fuels. The AFDC collects operating information from vehicles
running on alternative fuels, analyzes those data, and makes them available to the public.
The AFDC also maintains information on research reports conducted for both the Biofuels
Systems Division and the Fuel Utilization Data and Analysis Division of the DOE Office of
Alternative Fuels.
Argonne National Laboratory
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Sandia National Laboratory
Web sites for a number of the government's research laboratories.
Eviro$en$e: Idaho National Engineering Laboratory
Full-text resources in environmental issues from "the Site". Its databases offer
full-text and multi-site search tools to address technical and regulatory issues.
Enviro$en$e's information comes from a wide spectrum of government, industry, academic,
and public interest sources.
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
Includes DoD and DoE nuclear facilities technical reports and publication, plus relevant
legislation, press statements and similar information.
U.S. Department of Energy
Of particular interest are "OpenNet" a full-text database of declassified and
"sanitized" documents that relate to the U.S.'s nuclear programs, and the
Electronic Exchange Initiative collection of scientific and technical documents including
information about SGML documents and document creation.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Press releases, technical documents, directory of locations and buildings.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission on FedWorld
Data files produced by the NRC and accessed through the FedWorld FTP site.
Agency for Toxic Substances
and Disease Registry
Environmental Protection Agency
Includes directory information about the EPA, reports and publications, statistics, laws
and regulations, links to other resources
Gulf of Mexico Program Information Network
The Gulf of Mexico Information Network (GIN) is a developmental effort designed to make
Gulf of Mexico ecosystem data and information readily available and to facilitate
communications between parties involved in Gulf of Mexico projects and programs.
National Biological Survey, Southeastern Biological
Science Center
WWW site for the Florida and Caribbean Science Center's. The resource information
available here comes in a variety of forms, including text, photos, statistical databases
and Geographic Information System (GIS) digital maps. Resources are from many sources,
including local, State and Federal government agencies, academic institutions, and
community groups.
National Estuary Program
Subset of the EPA page focusing on estuary and wetland issues.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOAA data includes the latest GOES images of the U.S., the latest weather maps for the
U.S., pictures of Hurricane Emily hitting the Outer Banks, studies of solar terrestrial
physics, information on marine biology from the National Marine Fisheries Service, sea
surface temperatures from Coast Watch images, weather in space, and many other things.
NOAA Environmental Information Gopher
Downloadable data from NOAA
NASA Technical Report Server
Searchable database of reports from a number of NASA's research sites and contractors.