Senior Acquisition Course
ICAF’s Acquisition Department is responsible for the Senior Acquisition Course.
The Senior Acquisition Course is the DoD’s pre-eminent course for members of the Acquisition Corps. The course is designed to prepare selected military officers and civilians for senior leadership and staff positions throughout the acquisition community and the defense establishment.
ICAF has been designated by the
Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics) (USD(AT&L) to conduct the Senior Acquisition Course for
selected students in consultation with the Defense Acquisition University
(DAU). This mission capitalizes upon an institutional core competency of
long-standing at the
The Senior Acquisition Course consists of the entire 10-month ICAF curriculum, complemented by two prescribed elective courses which address contemporary and future policy issues in the field of acquisition as part of the joint warfighting and interagency community writ large. Senior Acquisition Course students are fully integrated into the ICAF student body – a mix of warfighters, operators, joint specialists, support, diplomatic, and federal agency personnel, international fellows, and representatives of American industry.