SAF/AQ ANNOUNCES `HOME PAGE' ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB On 22 September 1995, Air Force Acquisition will join the ``information superhighway'' with the debut of their World Wide ``Home Page.'' The Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Acquisition), or SAF/AQ, WWW page will be the starting point for accessing a wide variety of information pertinent to the acquisition community. It will include such topical areas as: Acquisition Reform, including Lightning Bolt updates and the monthly newsletter; Acquisition Policy; Budget and Congressional; Contracting, including opportunities, acquisition regs, and policy; Technology; Engineering, Industrial, and Environmental Policy. SAF/AQ plans to use their World Wide Web site to communicate with subordinate organizations, other agencies, interested business entities, and with the general public. The WWW will help to alleviate the problems normally associated with distributing large amounts of information. Initially, the SAF/AQ WWW page will have only a small fraction of the eventual content. All information will initially be publicly releasable. Sometime in the future, as additional information is added, certain parts of the page will be accessible only to appropriate audiences. Because of the dynamic nature of the page, interested users are encouraged to visit often. The World Wide Web is essentially a graphical front end interface to the Internet. The Web is based on hypertext, with the notion that from one piece of information you should be able to jump directly to something related. It allows users to easily navigate and find information by simply clicking on a word or graphic. Web pages are electronic documents that have been enhanced with text codes. The codes tell your computer how to get to related material, which may be located halfway around the world. The codes are readable by a ``browser'' such as Lynx, Netscape or Mosaic. The growth of the Web has been explosive. Leading measures estimate there are approximately 30 million users on the Internet today, with nearly 8-10 million of those users reaching the Web. SAF/AQ plans to use this powerful technology to deliver an unprecedented and powerful combination of openness and security, intuitive access to highly graphical information, and flexibility for customization. This announcement is only the first step of greater things to come. Anyone interested in the SAF/AQ WWW page can visit it at Universal Resource Locator (URL) ``http://www.hq.af.mil/SAFAQ/''. If you have any questions, you may call the point of contact, Capt Barry Graham, SAF/AQXA, at (703) 697-6513, or email grahamb@aqpo.hq.af.mil.

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