DEFENSE ACQUISITION UNIVERSITY- WEST

The West Region campus is located in San Diego, California, near the Navy and Air Force space communities. From an ideal location on the Pacific Rim, San Diego is the anchor for a region poised for success in an era of growing needs for acquisition learning. It serves a DoD AT&L workforce of over 25, 000.

These standards require personal integrity and honesty. The discovery, advancement, and communication of knowledge will be achieved only with a commitment to these standards. The policies cited in this directive are intended to establish a minimum standard of conduct, conducive to attainment of excellence in training and education.DAU encourages students who have an issue or concern with the learning environment to discuss it with their instructor. Students who feel their issue is not resolved satisfactorily may go to the department chair/site manager or Regional Associate Dean for Academics.

The Defense Acquisition University is the one institution that touches nearly every member of the Defense Acquisition Workforce throughout all career stages. The university provides a full range of basic, intermediate, and advanced certification training, assignment-specific training, applied research, and continuous learning opportunities. The university also fosters professional development through mission assistance, rapid-deployment training on emerging acquisition initiatives, online knowledge-sharing tools, and continuous learning modules.

Welcome to the Defense Acquisition University, a best-in-class corporate university for the Defense Acquisition Workforce. Everything we do at DAU is for you, the acquisition professional—from formal courses and continuous learning modules to knowledge sharing assets and consulting. As your learning partner, we will be with you in the classroom, online, and in your workplace-- whenever and wherever you need DAU. All of our learning assets are meant to help you develop and manage acquisition programs, projects, and systems that continue to make our nation’s warfighters the best-equipped armed forces in the world.