A selection of Army acquisition Officer education and training programs
Army Acquisition Transition Course (AATC)
This nine week course is held in Huntsville, Alabama at The Army Acquisition School (TAAS). It is designed to provide a broad spectrum of knowledge pertaining to the acquisition process, program management and contracting.
Naval Postgraduate School’s Advanced Education Program (Initial Officer Education) Army Acquisition officers attend Naval Postgraduate School’s Masters of Science in Program 522 through the Advanced Civil Schooling fully funded education program.
Each of these programs result in a minimum Acquisition Functional Area (AFA) training of: Contracting (Professional), Program Management (Advanced), Test and Evaluation (Practitioner), and Engineering and Technical Management (Practitioner)
Follow on training includes:
Military Education Level 4/Advanced Operations Course Intermediate Qualification Course (IQC): The three-week FA51 IQC is the Army Acquisition Corps (AAC) functional-area specific follow-on to the core intermediate Level Education (ILE).
