Our Courses

Provides an in-depth examination of the long-term implications of today’s resources management decisions, teaching participants to recognize and evaluate competing alternatives at both the strategic and operational levels of defense organizations. Faculty integrate concepts, principles, and techniques drawn from the disciplines of management, economics, and quantitative methods to teach participants to analyze tradeoffs among alternatives in terms of their costs, effectiveness, availability, and risks. Participants learn to define and evaluate the relationship among national security objectives, defense strategies, program alternatives/capabilities, and budget resource requirements. 

• Offered two times each year
• Next Scheduled: 15 Oct-20 Dec 2024; 6 Jan-14 Mar 2025; 14 Oct-19 Dec 2025
• Who Should Attend: Partner nation military officers of ranks O-3 through O-6 and equivalent civilian defense officials
• Continuing Professional Education: 250.5 CPE hours

Provides an overview of the long-term implications of today’s decisions, teaching participants to recognize and evaluate competing alternatives at both the strategic and operational levels of defense organizations. Faculty integrate concepts, principles, and techniques drawn from the disciplines of management, economics, and quantitative methods to teach participants to analyze tradeoffs among alternatives in terms of their costs, effectiveness, availability, and risks. 

• Offered three times each year
• Next Scheduled: 1-26 Apr 2024; 10 Jun-3 Jul 2024; 3-27 Sep 2024
• Who Should Attend: U.S. and partner nation military officers (active duty or reserve) of grades O-3 through O-6; senior enlisted military personnel (E-7 through E-9, or equivalent) with a bachelor’s degree; civilian defense officials of grades GS-09 through GS-15, or equivalent; individuals participating in accelerated career development programs; and partner nation officials of similar rank or grade.
• Reservists -- Course ID CIN S003306, CDP 9650, UIC 62271
• Continuing Professional Education: 119 CPE hours
• U.S. participants may take this course in two, 2-week modules: the first half (weeks 1-2) followed by the second half (weeks 3-4), as long as it is within 2 years from completion of the first half.

The DRMC has been evaluated by the Commission on Educational Credit of the American Council on Education. Credit recommendations are published in the "Guide to the Evaluation of Educational Experience in the Armed Forces."

For those ASMC members interested in obtaining or maintaining Certified Defense Financial Manager (CDFM) status, DRMC faculty teach in the following CDFM exam areas: Government Resource Management Environment; Defense Resource Management Environment; Planning, Programming and Budgeting; and Cost and Economic Analysis. A few of the other topics are indirectly covered in the course.

This executive education program brings together flag and general rank military officers and equivalent senior civilian officials from around the world to address contemporary security challenges and resources management issues. Participants develop skills and insights that enhance strategic-level decision making and refine their ability to define and evaluate the relationship among national security objectives, defense strategies, program alternatives/capabilities, and budget resource requirements.

• Offered one time each year
• Next Scheduled: 29 Jul-23 Aug 2024; 28 Jul-22 Aug 2025
• Who Should Attend: U.S. and partner nation flag and general rank military officers and equivalent senior civilian defense officials
• Continuing Professional Education: 106 CPE hours

Provides an overview of the long-term implications of today’s decisions, teaching participants to recognize and evaluate competing alternatives at both the strategic and operational levels of defense organizations. Faculty integrate concepts, principles, and techniques drawn from the disciplines of management, economics, and quantitative methods to teach participants to analyze tradeoffs among alternatives in terms of their costs, effectiveness, availability, and risks. 

• Offered three times each year
• Next Scheduled: 1-26 Apr 2024; 10 Jun-3 Jul 2024; 3-27 Sep 2024
• Who Should Attend: U.S. and partner nation military officers (active duty or reserve) of grades O-3 through O-6; senior enlisted military personnel (E-7 through E-9, or equivalent) with a bachelor’s degree; civilian defense officials of grades GS-09 through GS-15, or equivalent; individuals participating in accelerated career development programs; and partner nation officials of similar rank or grade.
• Reservists -- Course ID CIN S003306, CDP 9650, UIC 62271
• Continuing Professional Education: 119 CPE hours
• U.S. participants may take this course in two, 2-week modules: the first half (weeks 1-2) followed by the second half (weeks 3-4), as long as it is within 2 years from completion of the first half.

The DRMC has been evaluated by the Commission on Educational Credit of the American Council on Education. Credit recommendations are published in the "Guide to the Evaluation of Educational Experience in the Armed Forces."

For those ASMC members interested in obtaining or maintaining Certified Defense Financial Manager (CDFM) status, DRMC faculty teach in the following CDFM exam areas: Government Resource Management Environment; Defense Resource Management Environment; Planning, Programming and Budgeting; and Cost and Economic Analysis. A few of the other topics are indirectly covered in the course.

Participants develop a quantitative approach to support decision making by managers in defense organizations with a focus on decisions involving many organizational objectives.

• Offered one time each year
• Next Scheduled: 28 May-7 Jun 2024; 27 May-6 Jun 2025
• Who Should Attend: U.S. and partner nation military officers (active duty or reserve) of grades O-3 through O-6; senior enlisted military personnel (E-7 through E-9, or equivalent) with a bachelor’s degree; civilian defense officials of grades GS-09 through GS-15, or equivalent; individuals participating in accelerated career development programs; and partner nation officials of similar rank or grade.
• Continuing Professional Education: 64 CPE hours

Participants develop a foundation for performance management and performance budgeting by constructing top-level goals and performance targets, working to develop performance hierarchies with measurable performance indicators, and learning about differences in supporting budgeting and accounting systems, and their roles in driving performance-based outcomes.

• Offered one time each year
• Next Scheduled: 13-24 May 2024; 12-23 May 2025
• Who Should Attend: U.S. and partner nation military officers (active duty or reserve) of grades O-3 through O-6; senior enlisted military personnel (E-7 through E-9, or equivalent) with a bachelor’s degree; civilian defense officials of grades GS-09 through GS-15, or equivalent; individuals participating in accelerated career development programs; and partner nation officials of similar rank or grade.
• Continuing Professional Education: 64 CPE hours

Participants learn to define risk, acquire skills to assess risk, develop an understanding of basic risk management techniques, and apply risk assessment and management in several areas of defense resources management.

• Offered one time each year
• Next Scheduled: 13-24 May 2024; 12-23 May 2025
• Who Should Attend: U.S. and partner nation military officers (active duty or reserve) of grades O-3 through O-6; senior enlisted military personnel (E-7 through E-9, or equivalent) with a bachelor’s degree; civilian defense officials of grades GS-09 through GS-15, or equivalent; individuals participating in accelerated career development programs; and partner nation officials of similar rank or grade.
• Continuing Professional Education: 64 CPE hours

Participants develop an understanding of the unique role that manpower plays in defense resources management and learn how to use analytical models, derive a force structure, and design personnel policies from recruitment through retirement to achieve strategic objectives. 

• Offered one time each year
• Next Scheduled: 29 Apr-10 May 2024; 28 Apr-9 May 2025
• Who Should Attend: U.S. and partner nation military officers (active duty or reserve) of grades O-3 through O-6; senior enlisted military personnel (E-7 through E-9, or equivalent) with a bachelor’s degree; civilian defense officials of grades GS-09 through GS-15, or equivalent; individuals participating in accelerated career development programs; and partner nation officials of similar rank or grade.
• Continuing Professional Education: 55 CPE hours

Participants develop a quantitative approach to support decision making by managers in defense organizations with a focus on decisions involving many organizational objectives.

• Offered one time each year
• Next Scheduled: 28 May-7 Jun 2024; 27 May-6 Jun 2025
• Who Should Attend: U.S. and partner nation military officers (active duty or reserve) of grades O-3 through O-6; senior enlisted military personnel (E-7 through E-9, or equivalent) with a bachelor’s degree; civilian defense officials of grades GS-09 through GS-15, or equivalent; individuals participating in accelerated career development programs; and partner nation officials of similar rank or grade.
• Continuing Professional Education: 64 CPE hours

Participants evaluate models and data to answer a variety of defense resources management questions, understand how models are used to predict outcomes, and become better communicators of the results of analysis to decision makers.

• Offered one time each year
• Next Scheduled: 18-29 Mar 2024; 17-28 Mar 2025
• Who Should Attend: U.S. and partner nation military officers (active duty or reserve) of grades O-3 through O-6; senior enlisted military personnel (E-7 through E-9, or equivalent) with a bachelor’s degree; civilian defense officials of grades GS-09 through GS-15, or equivalent; individuals participating in accelerated career development programs; and partner nation officials of similar rank or grade who are managers working in any financial or resources management field. Examples include individuals who are engaged in the analysis of questions of interest in financial management, cost estimation, medium-term expenditure planning (what we call a Planning, Programming, Budgeting Execution System or PPBES in the U.S.), and human resources/manpower planning.
• Continuing Professional Education: 64 CPE hours