WELCOME TO THE ARC
About Us
The Acquisition Research Center (ARC) is a website operated by the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) Acquisition
Center of Excellence (ACE) that is used by the Intelligence Community (IC) to support e-commerce with Industry. It
provides a unique ability for procurement officials to participate in the communication exchanges that are controlled
to protect the source selection sensitive information and proprietary equities of the participants, and features
specialized services and capabilities critical to the successful acquisition of goods and services for the IC and
other Government activities. The ARC is available in both a classified and unclassified format to support a wide
range of source selection activities.