Chief Acquisition Officers Council
The Chief Acquisition Officers Council (CAOC) is a senior interagency forum established pursuant to Section 16 of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act (41 USC 1311). The Council brings together the Chief Acquisition Officers (CAOs), the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, and the Senior Procurement Executives of Executive Branch agencies to monitor and improve the federal acquisition system, promote effective business practices, deliver best-value products and services, and further integrity, fairness, competition, and openness in federal procurement. The CAOC publishes resources, charters, working group output, and guidance through Acquisition.gov, and operates alongside the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council and the Office of Management and Budget's Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP).
More than an index entry, but the surface is still mostly links rather than artifacts — the cohort most likely to move a full band from modest, well-targeted work.
API Evangelist profiles Chief Acquisition Officers Council the way a machine reads it — 18 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Chief Acquisition Officers Council scores 22.4/100 (emerging), with a separate agent-readiness read of 7/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Chief Acquisition Officers Council
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Chief Acquisition Officers Council. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 1
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Chief Acquisition Officers Council Resources
The CAOC publishes its charter, membership roster, meeting summaries, working group output, and federal acquisition guidance through Acquisition.gov. The Council does not expose...
Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
FinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Features 7
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
Senior-Level Interagency Forum
Federal Acquisition Policy Coordination
Working Groups and Action Teams
Acquisition Workforce Development
Best Practice Guidance
Industry Engagement
Performance Reporting
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Security Posture 1
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Use Cases 6
What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.
What developers build with this provider.
Federal Acquisition Workforce Improvement
Category Management Adoption
Innovative Buying Practices
Federal Procurement Reporting
Cross-Agency Best Practice Sharing
Industry-Government Collaboration
Resources
Every other property we hold for Chief Acquisition Officers Council — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Commercial 1
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 9
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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