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David Berg
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Defense Programs

Since 1952, the Defense Comptrollership Program in the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University has trained financial managers to handle multibillion dollar resources for the Department of Defense. Its more than 1500 military and civilian graduates are found at the highest levels of financial management in DOD, as well as in business, academia, and all levels of government. In order to increase the policy aspects of DOD financial management the program  was changed in 2002 from a 14-month 51-credit MBA program to a 14-month 60-credit MBA/Master of Arts in Public Administration Program. The first class to be awarded both an MBA and a Master of Arts in Public Administration – now an Executive Masters of Public Administration – graduated on August 8, 2003.

The fifty-seventh Defense Comptrollership class began on June 2, 2008. The 2008-2009 DCP class has 28 members. In addition to Army military and civilian personnel, it has one US Coast Guard student, and one IBM Consulting student among the 28. Our goal is to continue to improve the program and make it the best program of its kind. In the summer of 2009 we will take the students to Washington, DC, for a week.

The Department of the Army also sponsors the Executive Comptroller Course (ECC), the Army Comptroller Course (ACC), and the Senior Resource Managers Symposium (SRMS).