DAU is a best-in-class corporate university for the Defense Acquisition Workforce. The university provides formal courses and continuous learning modules for acquisition professionals.

These learning assets are designed to provide civilian and military professionals with the knowledge sharing and consulting skills to help them develop and manage acquisition programs, projects and systems specific to the needs of the US Armed Forces throughout the world.

All Department of Defense and Uniformed Service acquisition employees are eligible to attend DAU classes. In a typical fiscal year, nearly 36,000 students graduate in various areas of study related to acquisition. The university has been voted No.1 in Leadership Development by Executive Excellence Publishing consecutively from 2005  to 2007. DAU strives to continually find new and innovative ways to achieve higher levels of learning for the Defense Acquisition Workforce. Utilizing all types of media and cutting-edge technology, DAU is always striving to discover new techniques to reach these adult students.

Projection solutions are becoming a more integral part of teaching

Digital projectors enhance the learning process by providing instructors a means to illustrate and support their lessons visually, which might not be possible with other, more traditional presentation methods. This is one of the primary reasons why DAU is investing more of their media budget in projection systems for classrooms. The university and corporate training center is located on one of the most prestigious military installations in the United States.