About DRMI

The Defense Resources Management Institute (DRMI) is an educational institution sponsored and supervised by the Secretary of Defense and located at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. The faculty of DRMI are members of the NPS faculty specifically assigned to DRMI for the purposes of providing graduate-level expertise in the associated academic disciplines. Since 1965, the Institute has conducted professional education programs in analytical decision making and resources management for military officers of all services, and senior civilian officials of the United States and 162 other countries. These programs are presented on a regularly scheduled basis at DRMI in Monterey, and by specific arrangement in other locations in the United States and overseas. The principal focus of all DRMI programs is developing an understanding and appreciation of the concepts, techniques, and decision making skills related to defense resources management. The goal of the Institute's programs is to enhance the effective allocation and use of resources in modern defense organizations.

The central focus of all educational programs conducted by DRMI is analytical decision making. The emphasis is not on training in job-specific skills, but rather on the concepts, techniques, and issues that pervade defense resources management decision making in most mid-management 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. Students 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, 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.