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.

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. 

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.

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

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.

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.

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. 

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

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.