Educational Program Offerings - Institute for Defense and Business

IB2 LOG

Industry Based Broadening: Logistics

Research Triangle Area

Through a combination of academic education, industry visits, and group application, you will learn how leading industries use data and […]

Audience: Experienced Professionals

eIDB: LOG 21

Logistics for the 21st Century

Virtual Offering

Designed from our successful LOG 21, a fully digital eIDB LOG 21 program has been developed to meet the demands […]

Audience: Early-career Professionals

LOGTECH ADVANCED

Advanced Program in Logistics & Technology

UNC’s Paul J. Rizzo Center
Chapel Hill, NC

LOGTECH Advanced is developed and delivered in partnership with: For 33-45 experienced logisticians competitively selected into each class, LOGTECH Advanced […]

Audience: Experienced Professionals

LOG 21

Logistics for the 21st Century

Varies:
-- UNC's Center for School Leadership Development; Chapel Hill, NC
-- UNC's Friday Center; Chapel Hill, NC
-- Thomas Conference Center at Duke's JB Duke Hotel; Durham, NC

Early-career logisticians position themselves to grow into greater responsibility by broadening their knowledge of defense logistics and key functions that […]

Audience: Early-career Professionals

LCELP

Life Cycle Executive Leadership Program

Varies:
-- UNC's Center for School Leadership Development; Chapel Hill, NC
-- UNC's Friday Center; Chapel Hill, NC
-- Thomas Conference Center at Duke's JB Duke Hotel; Durham, NC

Designed for private sector and military leaders responsible for the life cycle aspects of a system – from acquisition to […]

Audience: Experienced Professionals

IDB DUS SBS

IDB Dense Urban Studies Strategic Broadening Seminar

New York City

For mid-career leaders, this two-week program based at Fort Hamilton and other locations in New York City, helps participants understand […]

Audience: Experienced Professionals

IB2 IA

Industry Based Broadening: Information Advantage

Research Triangle, NC

In this program designed for high-potential O4s in information operations and related areas, you will be presented the fundamentals of […]

Audience: Experienced Professionals

eIDB: IB2 LOG

Industry Based Broadening: Logistics

Virtual

In this program, you will be presented with the fundamentals of ERP applications, the cultures of the industries that utilize […]

Audience: Experienced Professionals

AIR-P

Aviation Industrial Readiness Program

Residency 1: Raleigh, NC
Residency 2: Jacksonville, FL & Various Locations in GA
Residency 3: Corporate Residencies at Host Locations
Residency 4: Chapel Hill, NC

This executive development program provides business management skills to effectively lead our nation’s complex depot, arsenal, and ammunition facilities and the […]

Audience: Experienced Professionals

Webinar Series: Governing Spaces in the Information Age

Governing New Frontiers in the Information Age

Online

The IDB has invited Dr. Scott Shackelford to join us for a four-part interactive webinar series on his new book, […]

Audience: All Professionals

May 14, 2020: COVID-19 and the New Abnormal of the Workplace

On Thursday May 14th at 2:00 PM EST, the Institute for Defense and Business presented a distinguished panel to discuss lessons […]

Audience: All Professionals

June 18, 2020: “Whole-of-Nation” Response to Crisis: Who is at the Table? Who is in Charge?

A panel discussion of the new rule sets determined for the field of logistics in a pandemic world.

As the United States begins to grasp the impact of COVID-19, experts across industries are beginning to evaluate our ability […]

Audience: All Professionals

June 25, 2020 – Post-COVID-19: How to be Lean—Without Becoming Brittle!

A panel discussion of the new rule sets determined for the field of logistics in a pandemic world.

A panel of distinguished military leaders and private sector executives discuss the current COVID-19 pandemic lessons, the extent of disruption […]

Audience: All Professionals

Sept. 2, 2021: Security in Our Hemisphere: A look at the U.S. southern border and the intersection of diplomacy and development in the security context

Institute for Defense and Businesspresents Security in Our Hemisphere: A look at the U.S. southern border and the intersection of […]

Audience: All Professionals

July 27, 2020 – Future of Training and Education in the Information Age

A Panel Discussion taking a look at the Future of Training and Education in the Information Age

We are in the midst of interesting and uncertain change right now and the educational and training landscape is quickly […]

Audience: All Professionals

August 2020 IDB-Microsoft Technology Center Panel Series

Thank you for participating in our upcoming virtual engagement with the Microsoft Technology Center. We are looking forward to a […]

Audience: All Professionals

October 22, 2020: Foreign Influence in U.S. Elections Panel

Panel of prominent subject matter experts and researchers explore foreign influence in U.S. elections.

Since 2016 and as we approach the upcoming 2020 presidential election, the potential impact of foreign interference in U.S. elections […]

Audience: All Professionals

November 9, 2020: Understanding Megacities Panel – Dense Urban Elephants on Steroids

A panel of distinguished though-leaders on characteristics and challenges involving megacities to provide a forum to better understand how to organize, train and equip to deal with those challenges.

Zoom

With the world now over 50% urban and becoming more urbanized every day, these urban agglomerations, defined by the UN […]

Audience: All Professionals

eIDB: LCELP

Life Cycle Executive Leadership Program

Virtual Offering

Optimizing Life Cycle Management Cradle to Grave Acquire new insights to enhance your organization’s product and system life cycle management. […]

Audience: Experienced Professionals

IU-IDB CYBER RISK MANAGEMENT PROGRAM IN A NATIONAL SECURITY CONTEXT

Exploring the Strategic Challenges and Opportunities of Emerging Technologies

Virtual Offering

Basic cybersecurity literacy is becoming increasingly vital. Cyber attackers, ranging from hacktivists to organized crime networks and even nation states, […]

Audience: Experienced Professionals

April 30, 2021: IDB DEI Panel – “The Next Frontier: Diversity, Equality and Inclusion”

As you know, diversity, equality, and inclusion (DEI) is on everyone’s minds in both the public and private sectors. The […]

Audience: All Professionals

May 11, 2021: Annual IDB Executive Fellows Panel

The 2021 Interim National Security Guidance was issued by the Biden Administration as a vision for how America will engage […]

Audience: All Professionals

June 24, 2021: Supply Chain Security through the Strait of Hormuz

Institute for Defense and Businesspresents “Supply Chain Security through the Strait of Hormuz” A Virtual Event Amb (Ret) David […]

Audience: All Professionals

SECURITY STUDIES: REGIONAL, NATIONAL AND GLOBAL COMMONS

Exploring Security and Geopolitical Challenges facing the United States

Virtual Offering

This course introduces participants to regional security and geopolitical challenges, alternating annually between the different  U.S. geographic combatant commands.  These challenges are […]

Audience: Experienced Professionals

LOGTECH EXECUTIVE

Program for Executives in Logistics & Technology

UNC's Paul J. Rizzo Center
Chapel Hill, NC

LOGTECH Executive is developed and delivered in partnership with: Transform your organization’s approach to technology and innovation across logistics and […]

Audience: Senior Leader