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.