Capability and Acquisition Practitioner: In-Service

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This course is delivered via Microsoft Teams or in-person by Cranfield University at the Defence Academy, Shrivenham. It brings together personnel employed in CAPAC management from different areas of the Defence Operating Model.
You will engage in seminars, tutorials and exercises to practice and consolidate skills and knowledge.

This course is suitable for you if your role is involved with generating force elements at readiness and sustainability with a focus on the generation, sustainment, and through-life support of capability to deliver operational effect at value for money for defence.

It is also suitable for those working in force generation and support related activities in the commands and project teams including those involved in pan-Direct Lines of Development (DLOD) generation of capability through availability working groups.

The aim of the CAPAC practitioner courses is to enable military and civilian staff from Head Office, Front Line Commands and enabling organisations to acquire an understanding of the MOD’s CAPAC and financial management processes, their application in the development and generation of affordable and strategy-compliant force structures and capabilities.

You will examine project, programme and portfolio management, requirements management, systems engineering and other well-established bodies of knowledge which are critical to delivering value for money to the MOD.

Modules include:
*Strategic direction to the development and generation of sustainable military capabilities
*Command models and the generic capability management model
*The role of science in capability management
*The delivery of change and the management of in-service capability

The CAPAC practitioner course builds on existing knowledge or acquired learning from the CAPAC Fundamentals and Awareness training. Successful completion of this course will further develop your CAPAC knowledge and skills and set the foundation to become one of the next generation of leaders and managers that deliver military capabilities to the front line and support them through life.

If you successfully complete the course, you will be awarded the CAPAC ‘Awareness’ education competency. This training will facilitate progression to practitioner level and the opportunity for line managers to award of the FKSE ‘Practitioner’ competency through the annual reporting system.

What our students have said…

*“The sessions on operating models and capability planning were of most benefit in filling a gap in my existing knowledge.”
*“Having the opportunity to have a discussion in the tutorials was extremely valuable.”