The Indo-Pacific Cadre (IPAC) Program (formerly known as Asia-Pacific (APAC) Hands) is a Navy initiative to build and identify officers with regional understanding and confidence to inform decision makers. The program’s varying levels are marked by incremental increases in graduate education and experience gained in select regionally focused billets.
Select officers will be required to acquire regional education en route a regionally-coded billet if the educational requirements are not met. Participation in the program is determined by coded billet requirements.
Officers interested in submitting a request package for IPAC AQD eligibility should email BupersRegionalCa.fct@navy.mil.
Officers interested in regionally-coded billets should contact their detailer. Community detailers will be able to discuss available billets for each officer's PRD window.
Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies
The Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (DKI APCSS) provides a forum for military and civilian leaders of the United States and Asia-Pacific nations to gather to address regional and global security. Offering a number of different programs, DKI APCSS provides an environment where officials, decision makers, and policy makers can exchange ideas, explore issues and challenges, and build regional networks. The Center offers three main courses: Comprehensive Security Cooperation, Indo-Pacific Orientation, and Transnational Security Cooperation.
The Comprehensive Security Cooperation (CSC) course is a 5-week in-resident executive program offered three times a year for mid-level military, government, and non-government professionals who intersect with the security sphere. Fellows spend approximately three-quarters of their time on complex, transdisciplinary, and transboundary challenges and about a quarter on specialty security content that deep-dives into a variety of priority areas. In parallel with presentations, discussions, and exercises, Fellows assess security environments, identify disruptors, analyze threat systems, and probe governance issues while collaboratively building relationships and mutual understanding. Learn more about the CSC course.
The Indo-Pacific Orientation Course (IPOC) provides an executive education experience for mid-career to senior-level security practitioners to enhance their ability to engage in cooperative security efforts, advancing a free and open Indo-Pacific. A week-long in-resident program, IPOC offers a unique opportunity for security practitioners with an extraordinary range of professional experience, levels of education, and perspectives to engage intensively on regional security issues. DKI APCSS also offers a Mobile IPOC (MIPOC) option to key regional partners unable to attend the resident course in Honolulu. MIPOC has expanded its outreach and educational initiatives by bringing its expertise to locations such as Camp Humphreys for United States Forces Korea, as well as to Japan and Washington, D.C. Learn more about the IPOC course.
The Transnational Security Cooperation (TSC) course is an exclusive, week-long intensive program aimed at empowering executive-grade U.S. and international military and civilian officials, including those holding or aspiring to 08-09, SES, and equivalent ranks. Specifically tailored for senior security practitioners from the Indo-Pacific region, the TSC course facilitates a deep dive into a broad spectrum of transnational security challenges. These encompass Indo-Pacific strategy, geopolitical competition, cybersecurity, climate change, maritime domain awareness, economic disruptions, global pandemics, irregular warfare, and Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR), alongside examining shifting power dynamics, evolving conflicts, and alliance shifts in critical areas such as the South China Sea, the Taiwan Straits, and Oceania. Learn more about the TSC course.
Course Calendar
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Comprehensive Security Cooperation (CSC)
CSC 25-1: 5 February – 12 March 2025
CSC 25-2: 7 May – 11 June 2025
CSC 25-3: 13 August – 17 September 2025
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Indo-Pacific Orientation Course (IPOC)
IPOC 24-2: 21 – 25 October 2024 (Enrollment for IPOC 24-2 is closed)
MIPOC 25-1: 7 – 11 April 2025 (Mobile IPOC)
IPOC 25-2: 20 – 24 October 2025
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Transnational Security Cooperation (TSC)
TSC 24-2: 8 – 13 December 2024
TSC 25-1: 13 – 18 July 2025
TSC 25-2: 7 – 12 December 2025
OPNAV N13F is now accepting nominations for CSC 25-1!
To find out more about DKI APCSS you can contact us at the email below or go to the APCSS website.
To learn how to submit a nomination for an APCSS course, contact OPNAV N13F at the email below.
Contact Us
Feel free to contact us at BupersRegionalCa.fct@navy.mil if you have any questions.