PRIVACY AND SECURITY NOTICE

1. The Directed Energy Directorate website is provided as a public service by the Air Force Research Laboratory Directed Energy Directorate, Kirtland Air Force Base.
2. Information presented on the Directed Energy Directorate website is considered public information and may be distributed or copied. Use of appropriate byline/photo/image credits is requested.
3. Information concerning visitors’ use* of this site is collected for analytical and statistical purposes, such as assessing what information is of most and least interest, determining technical design specifications, and identifying system performance or problem areas.
4. For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, this government computer system employs software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.
5. Raw data logs will only be used to identify individual users and their usage habits for authorized law enforcement investigations or national security purposes. These logs are scheduled for regular destruction in accordance with DoD Guidelines.
6. Unauthorized attempts to deny service, upload information, change information, or to attempt to access a non-public site from this service are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under Title 18 of AFI33-129 4 APRIL 2001 21 the U.S. Code to include the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.
7. The appearance of hyperlinks does not constitute endorsement by the U.S. Air Force or the information, products, or services contained therein. For other than authorized activities such as military exchanges and morale, welfare and recreation sites, the U.S. Air Force does not exercise any editorial control over the information you may find at these locations. Such links are provided consistent with the stated purpose of this DOD Web site.
8. If you have any questions or comments about the information presented here, please contact afrl.de.webmaster@kirtland.af.mil
   
   
   
   * Below is an example of the information collected based on a standard request for a World Wide Web document:

   xxx.yyy.com -- [28/Jan/1997:00:00:01 -0500] "GET/News/04-02.html HTTP/1.0" 200 16704 Mozilla 3.0/www.altavista.digital.com

   xxx.yyy.com (or 123.123.23.12)-- this is the host name (or IP address) associated with the requester (you as the visitor). In this case, (....com) the requester is coming from a commercial address. Depending on the requester’s method of network connection, the host name (or IP address) may or may not identify a specific computer. Connections via many Internet Service Providers assign different IP addresses for each session, so the host name identifies only the ISP. The host name (or IP address) will identify a specific computer if that computer has a fixed IP address.

   [28/Jan/1997:00:00:01 -0500] -- this is the date and time of the request.

   “GET /News/04-02.html HTTP/1.0” -- this is the location of the requested file on the Directed Energy Directorate website.

   200 -- this is the status code - 200 is OK - the request was filled.

   16704 -- this is the size of the requested file in bytes.

   Mozilla 3.0 -- this identifies the type of browser software used to access the page, which indicates what design parameters to use in constructing the pages.

   www.altavista.digital.com - this indicates the last site the person visited, which indicates how people find the Directed Energy Directorate website.

   Requests for other types of documents use similar information. No other user-identifying information is collected.