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Technical reports are often sponsored by a governmental agency (e.g. NASA), an academic institution, or a company (e.g. HP). Many reports are freely available on the Internet, others are available from libraries, and still others maybe not be available at all.

On the left are some commonly-requested categories of reports, with finding information. Additionally:

Recommended sites:

NTRL: National Technical Reports Library
NTIS is the more familiar name. Indexing, often with full-text, of technical reports. Many of these are reports sponsored by agencies of the U.S. federal government but coverage is broad. Indexing of about 3 million titles, with coverage back to the early 1900s.
OSTI.GOV
"OSTI.GOV is the primary search tool for DOE (Department of Energy) science, technology, and engineering research and development results and the organizational hub for information about the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information. It consolidates OSTI’s home page and our now retired primary search tool SciTech Connect."
TRID: the TRIS and ITRD database
"TRID is an integrated database that combines the records from TRB’s Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Database and the OECD’s Joint Transport Research Centre’s International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) Database. TRID provides access to more than 1.25 million records of transportation research worldwide."
Defense Technical Information Center
We'd prefer to send you directly to: https://www.dtic.mil/. But the site gives a security warning and it seems better to see that AFTER going through the information page. Here you can search declassified reports available from the Department of Defense. Many offer full text.
TRAIL: Technical Report Archive & Image Library
The Technical Report Archive & Image Library (TRAIL) identifies, acquires, catalogs, digitizes and provides unrestricted access to U.S. government agency technical reports. Coverage began with a focus on pre-1976 materials but also covers newer items.

Special Help

Technical Reports Collections - The Library of Congress Science, Technology & Business Division.
Difficult to Find Engineering Papers - From the Linda Hall Library. These difficult-to-find papers are often conference papers from major engineering societies.