Target Your Acquisition Training

The work done in program offices across DoD is key to ensuring delivery to the warfighter on time and at scale. DAU helps you keep pace with emerging challenges by offering relevant courses and training opportunities. The following courses and credentials have recently been released.

Credentials

Defense Acquisition Credentials offer a collection of related courses to help you develop expertise in specialized career areas. Below are the most recently released credentials.

Advanced Proposal Analysis (CCON 009): Obtain an understanding of when to use cost analysis to evaluate those submittals and focuses on the indirect cost elements, profit or fee, and documentation.

Contracting Financial Credential (CCON 005): Review the essential concepts and practices of contract financing in the federal acquisition environment.

Facilities Engineering (CACQ 014): Develop the essential skills to oversee and manage facilities engineering workforce and projects. Created for intermediate and senior facility engineer managers and workers across all facility engineering specialties.

Incentive Contracting (CCON 006): Dive into the intricate world of incentive contracting to understand its principles, methodologies and real-world applications.

Negotiations (CCON 019): Learn how to use interest-based negotiation techniques to reach mutually beneficial agreements with contractors, internal departments, colleagues and other stakeholders.

Courses by Topic Area

Choose from several new courses on hot acquisition topics ranging from international acquisition planning to intellectual property.

Acquisition Management

Data Rights Markings and Validation (ACQ 0760): Learn how to apply proper markings to ensure data is available to the right people at the right time and to protect that data from unauthorized dissemination.

Defense Industry Incentives (ACQ 3150): Gain an understanding of the defense industry and business acumen.

Defense Industry Strategy (ACQ 3120): Learn how contractors develop their business and organization strategies and use that knowledge to improve acquisition outcomes.

Intellectual Property (IP) Issues in Cloud Storage Services (ACQ 0770): Discuss IP and other contracting issues in Cloud Computing and Service Level Agreements and how to avoid them.

Leading Through Others (ALD 2100V): Learn how to thrive in volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environments.

Negotiation (ACQ 3160): Get prepared to sit across the table from a contractor and negotiate.

Technology Portfolio Management (STM 2060V): This course teaches senior DoD science and technology managers the application of principles and practices of technology portfolio development, prioritization and evaluation.

Business Cost Estimating/Financial Management

Comparative Analysis (BCE 0060): Intended for DoD Business Acquisition Cost Estimating professionals, this provides a thorough understanding of how various Comparative Analyses should be used to support the cost estimating process.

Data Analysis, Not Data Analytics (BFM 2300): Dive into data analysis and get equipped with the skills you need to extract meaningful insights from data.

Database for Cost Estimating (BCE 0150): Get introduced to some of the more well-known DoD relational databases.

Contracting

Analyzing Profit or Fee (CON 7170V): Complete a series of simulations and make decisions and gain critical thinking skills related to risk and selection decisions.

Contractor Business Systems (CBS) (CMC 2060): This course provides the necessary knowledge and simulated practice to perform the CBS review process.

Cost Realism Analysis (CON 7320V): Discover how to review and evaluate specific proposal cost estimate to determine if the estimate is unrealistically low. Learn practical, effective steps you can take to avoid protests and to successfully defend your team’s decision, if necessary

Getting to Yes (CON 0010): Learn valuable interest-based negotiation techniques for finding creative, integrative solutions that satisfy each party's interests and needs, resulting in the best possible negotiated outcomes.

Indirect Costs Analysis (CON 7030V): Develop an understanding of industry indirect costs and the impact on seller pricing and business strategies in various acquisition environments with differing contract types.

Inflation and Economic Price Adjustments (EPAs) (CON 7471): Discover the various causes and types of inflation and learn about the use of EPA clauses.

Integrated Cost Proposal Evaluation (CMI 1300V): Work on applying policy and guidelines that guide Defense Contract Management Agency personnel in executing negotiation intelligence associated with integrated cost proposal evaluation.

Negotiation Training for the Acquisition Workforce (CON 7900): Learn how to use interest-based negotiation techniques to reach mutually beneficial agreements with contractors, internal departments, colleagues and other stakeholders.

Performance-Based Payments (CON 7520): After completing this course, students will have the essential tools and knowledge to develop a performance-based payment structure for fixed-price contracts.

Earned Value Management

Applied Integrated Program Management (EVM 2100): Students practice using earned value management (EVM) as an integrated program management tool using hands-on and analysis-based exercises.

EVMSIG104 Analysis and Management Reporting (CMI 1240): Learn how to use DoD’s Analysis and Management Reporting Category Guidelines and support Defense Contract Management Agency’s Earned Value Management System Career Development Program.

EVMSIG105 Revisions and Data Maintenance (CMI 1250): Focus your learning on the DoD Revisions and Data Maintenance Category Guidelines (22 through 27) to effectively perform your role as an Earned Value Management Systems functional specialist.

International Acquisition

International Acquisition Planning (INT 2300V): Plan for, integrate and implement international acquisition programs within the Defense Acquisition System to meet the needs of workforce members in acquisition and security cooperation positions.

Managing International Defense Acquisition (INT 3800V): Learn about current law and DoD policy relating to international acquisition, critical thinking methodologies in virtual classroom case studies and 10 specific international acquisition topics.

Life Cycle Logistics

Defense Business Systems (DBS) and Logistics (LOG 3570): This course guides students through the Defense Systems Pathway and helps them recognize and identify influences and effects logisticians have in supporting DBS.

Digital Twins for Predictive Maintenance Fundamentals (LOG 0610): Gain a fundamental understanding of how a digital twin can be used as part of a condition-based maintenance plus capability to predictively manage the maintenance of a system.

Major Capability Acquisition and Logistics (LOG 3550): Explore, examine and understand the purpose and principles of the Major Capability Acquisition pathway.