These locations include:[4] Applicants must have a current affiliation with the United States government in order to attend training courses offered by DAU.

The United States Military Services and the DoD have internal registration and quotas for DAU instructor-led courses, while the Federal Acquisition Institute (FAI) accepts applications and registers most non-DoD students.

DAU offers training courses for all Defense Acquisition Workforce members in 7 functional areas and at three certification levels.

This text, also available in web-accessed electronic format and web-structured HTML basis (see https://aaf.dau.edu/guidebooks/) provides insight to a life cycle view and functional roles within the lifecycle of acquisitions.

This incident occurred on a vendor's network that provided the learning management system's underlying source code[16] and inhibited access to online courses for almost two months.