# Chief Acquisition Officers Council (CAOC)

> The Chief Acquisition Officers Council is a senior interagency forum of the U.S. federal
> government, established under Section 16 of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act
> (41 U.S.C. 1311). It brings together agency Chief Acquisition Officers, the Under Secretary
> of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, and Senior Procurement Executives to monitor and
> improve the federal acquisition system. The Council publishes its charter, membership,
> working-group output and acquisition guidance through Acquisition.GOV; it operates no
> developer program, no API, and no host of its own.

Generated: 2026-09-05
Method: generated (from apis.yml and the artifacts in this repository; every URL below was
fetched on 2026-09-05 and returned HTTP 200 unless annotated)
Source: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/chief-acquisition-officers-council/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
Publisher of this file: API Evangelist — an independent third-party profile, not the Council.

## API surface

There is none. The Council publishes no OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, GraphQL SDL, gRPC/Protobuf, WSDL,
MCP server, A2A agent card, SDK, or developer portal. Contract discovery was run on
2026-09-05 against acquisition.gov and www.acquisition.gov — the only hosts on this record —
covering /openapi.json, /openapi.yaml, /swagger.json, /v1/openapi.json, /api-docs, /graphql,
/api, /developers, /data and the /.well-known/ path list. Every one returned HTTP 404.
Agents should treat this organization as a documentary source, not a callable service.

## Council resources

- [Acquisition.GOV](https://www.acquisition.gov): the federal acquisition platform (operated by
  GSA) through which the Council publishes.
- [CAOC home](https://www.acquisition.gov/cao-home): the Council's home page. Returned HTTP 403
  to anonymous fetches on 2026-09-05 and is absent from the site sitemap.
- [CAOC charter](https://www.acquisition.gov/caoc-charter): the Council's charter, effective
  June 1, 2004. Returned HTTP 403 to anonymous fetches on 2026-09-05.
- [Policy Network](https://www.acquisition.gov/policy-network): the interagency acquisition
  policy network the Council sits within.
- [FAR Council](https://www.acquisition.gov/far-council): the Federal Acquisition Regulatory
  Council, the Council's rulemaking counterpart.
- [FAR Council members](https://www.acquisition.gov/far-council-members)
- [Federal Acquisition Regulation](https://www.acquisition.gov/browse/index/far): the full FAR text.

## Related organizations

- [Office of Management and Budget](https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/): OMB, whose Office of
  Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) the Council supports.
- [GSA Office of Acquisition Policy](https://www.gsa.gov/policy-regulations/policy/acquisition-policy/office-of-acquisition-policy)
- [CAOC on USAGov](https://www.usa.gov/agencies/chief-acquisition-officers-council)

## News

- [Acquisition.GOV news feed (RSS)](https://www.acquisition.gov/rss.xml): the site-wide feed
  carrying FAR Overhaul notices, Federal Acquisition Circulars and Acquisition.GOV changes.

## Standards this body works under

- Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)
- Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act (41 U.S.C. 1311)
- OMB Circulars A-130 and A-131
- Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA)

## Optional

- [This profile's apis.yml](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/chief-acquisition-officers-council/refs/heads/main/apis.yml)
- [Well-known probe record](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/chief-acquisition-officers-council/refs/heads/main/well-known/chief-acquisition-officers-council-well-known.yml)