All Partners Access Network

All Partners Access Network (APAN), formerly called Asia-Pacific Area Network, was a United States Department of Defense (USDOD) social networking website used for information sharing and collaboration. It operated from 1997 until its official decommissioning on October 29, 2025. APAN served as the premier collaboration enterprise for the USDOD. The APAN hosted a network of communities that supported multinational interaction and multilateral cooperation by enabling users to post multimedia and other content in blogs, wikis, forums, document libraries and media galleries. APAN was used for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, exercise planning, conferences and work groups. APAN provided non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and U.S. partner nations who did not have access to traditional, closed USDOD networks with an unclassified tool to communicate.

On September 26, 2025, the DoD CIO confirmed APAN's decommissioning, with its last operational day on October 28, 2025. After 28 years of service, the APAN website was taken offline on October 29, 2025, displaying a closure notice thanking its more than 500,000 global users and encouraging continued collaboration through Multinational Information Sharing (MNIS) successor initiatives such as the Unclassified Information Sharing Service (UISS) within the broader Mission Partner Environment (MPE) framework.

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