DFM&CS Vision: "Ready and Relevant"... DoW Center of Excellence providing multi-disciplined advanced Financial Management education and training tools to best support the warfighter.

DFM&CS Mission: Develop skilled, inspired, and mission oriented Joint FM Warfighters capable of leading teams, optimizing taxpayer dollars, ensuring integrity in financial results, and providing data-driven, strategically oriented, and fiscally informed decision-advantage to DoW senior leaders.

We teach three courses at DFM&CS: the Defense Financial Management Course (DFMC), the Defense Decision Support Course (DDSC), and the Department of the Air Force Professional Financial Management Course (PFMC). DFMC is a joint, three-week, advanced-level FM course taught at Maxwell AFB-Gunter Annex, Alabama. Students complete baseline prerequisite distance learning requirements enabling higher-level, experience-driven learning outcomes. DDSC is a joint, mobile-training, four-day course taught at locations around the world. PFMC is a 14 day Department of the Air Force course taught at Maxwell AFB-Gunter Annex, with prerequisite distance learning requirements.
 
We strive to maintain relevancy by linking financial management competencies to leadership and human domain competencies through complex, real-world scenarios. DFM&CS uses resident and adjunct faculty, along with guest speakers, to provide a robust curriculum that includes enhanced financial management principles and current issues; critical thinking; strategic orientation; conflict resolution; fiscal law; leadership; decision support; and fiduciary responsibilities.
 
We hope to build a robust, persistent relationship with our students that lasts the length of a career. To do this, our focus is on the student experience where we aim to provide a challenging, yet personally gratifying learning environment that continues even after graduation. We know this will become a reality through our students' active engagement.
 
"Ready and Relevant!"