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Course Details:

Acquisition Employment Training
Course Code AET
Description: Acquisition Employment Training (AET) is designed to provide military officers with no prior experience in Acquisition with the competences and cultural induction to contribute effectively to Acquisition on arrival in their post.
Aim: To provide OF2/OF3 from all three Services with the knowledge, skills and techniques necessary to contribute to the delivery of Capability through all stages of the Defence acquisition cycle.
Duration: Four weeks of Awareness training followed by one week at Practitioner level in one of four streams (Programmes, Projects, Requirements or Support.
Pre-Requisites: Any OF2/OF3 who has been selected to undertake their first Core Acquisition appointment. Those wishing to enrol for a Master’s degree for which AET provides prior learning credits, will be required to provide evidence of meeting CU academic registration standards.
Designed For: This residential 5 week course at the Defence Academy – College of Management and Technology, Shrivenham is designed for OF 2/3 military students from all three Services. Places will be offered to MOD Civil Servants and delegates from Defence Industry whenever vacancies are forecast.
Objectives: The course is formally assessed and successful completion provides Masters level credits in Project Management and Systems Engineering. Students going into Project Management positions will also sit the APMP examination from the Association for Project Management.

By the end of the course students will have achieved the competences of the TLCM Basic course and will understand programme, project, requirement management and through life support techniques and terminology. In addition, each student will have received one week of practitioner level training in Programme Management, Project Management, Requirements Management or Support.

On completion of the course each student will be ready to take his or her place alongside colleagues from the MOD Civil Service, Industry and the research community in delivering Capability.
This course is delivered by Cranfield University.

How to Book: .To book a place on this course please contact 01793 314485 (option 4)