The central focus of Defense Resources Management Institute (DRMI) education is for analytical decision making. The emphasis is on the concepts, techniques, and issues that pervade defense resources management decision making in most mid-level through executive-level positions. Each course provides a multi-disciplinary program which encourages participants to:

• Develop an understanding of concepts, principles, methods and techniques drawn from:
  • Management theory - examination of the current state of management thought and organized action;
  • Economic reasoning - topics dealing with the basic tenet of scarcity of resources relative to competing needs and wants; and
  • Quantitative reasoning - the basic language and analytic tools which are the foundation of modern decision theory.
• Integrate these ideas into a systematic process for resources allocation decision making and effective resource utilization, and apply these concepts to illustrative examples of:
  • Allocating scarce resources to competing needs;
  • Analyzing and evaluating management systems, programs and policies; and
  • Maximizing benefits within existing resource constraints, or minimizing resource consumption to achieve a predetermined level of benefit.

Course information

Resident course conducted five times each year for military 0-4 and above and equivalent government civilians. Course includes U.S. and international participants.

Source:

¹ United States, Defense Security Assistance Agency, Expanded IMET Handbook, (Washington: February 14, 1997) I-1, I-2.