The National Fire Academy is making available on the Internet more than 2,000 of its research projects from its Executive Fire Officer Program.

Since the EFOP began requiring applied research projects from its students in 1990 for each of the four EFOP courses, there have been nearly 10,000 projects in which students have scored 3.0 or higher on a 4.0 scale. Those projects' full text are placed in an archive for public review. U.S. Fire Administrator Gregory Cade said these projects are some of the most referenced sources of information at the National Emergency Training Center's Learning Resource Center.

The projects can be downloaded from the resource center's electronic card catalog. The electronic archiving of these projects was anticipated in 1998 when EFOP participants were first required to submit an electronic copy of their research. Two years of the pojects were first made available electronically in 2002. During 2006 and 2007, work commenced on preparing and converting over 2,000 remaining ARPs for public access. USFA anticipates that the conversion of the remaining ARPs will be completed later this month, raising the total to almost 3,000 documents available online.