Official portal of the U.S. government. A helpful starting point if you're looking for a particular topic but don't know where in the government to look.
The Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC) is a Federal Advisory Committee with a U.S. Government Charter to promote security cooperation between American business and private sector interests worldwide and the U.S. Department of State as well as other US Government Agencies. OSAC currently encompasses the 34-member core Council, an Executive Office, over 100 Country Councils, and more than 2,700 constituent member organizations, 600 associates and 5 US Government Agencies (US Agency for International Development, US Chamber of Commerce, US Department of Commerce, US Department of Treasury).
The U.S Agency for International Development is the U.S. federal government agency that implements America's foreign economic and humanitarian assistance programs. USAID's history goes back to the Marshall Plan reconstruction of Europe after World War Two and the Truman Administration's Point Four Program. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed the Foreign Assistance Act into law and created by executive order USAID. USAID-funded publications are disseminated to the international development community through the Development Experience Clearinghouse
The Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) is the primary research faculty of the U.S. Army War College. The Strategic Studies Institute is a versatile, dynamic organization that identifies international security issues likely to affect the United States, its friends, and potential adversaries; analyzes national security issues and, through the timely publication of studies and conduct of conferences, informs Army leaders of policy options; and provides the U.S. Army with a source of ideas, criticism, innovative approaches, and independent analyses.
The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with nearly 128 million items on approximately 530 miles of bookshelves. The collections include more than 29 million books and other printed materials, 2.7 million recordings, 12 million photographs, 4.8 million maps, and 57 million manuscripts. Global Gateway provides access to a wide variety of international resources from the Library.
