The Reserve Component National Security Course (RCNSC) is a two-week seminar offered to senior officers and non-commissioned officers (E8-E9) of the U.S. Reserve Components, allied officers, and select civilians working in national security. The RCNSC is designed to lay a foundation for students moving on to joint command management and staff responsibilities in a multinational, intergovernmental, or joint national security setting. The curriculum consists of lectures, panel discussions, seminars, a Capitol Hill visit, and a simulation exercise dealing with national security policy and defense resource management.RCNSC is held three times a year at the National Defense University.The future operating environment requires leaders to have the capacity to operate at the Strategic level, in addition to the Operational and Tactical levels. To do so, our leaders must have the training, education, and experience to meet those demands. RCNSC is the venue where services can continue to provide strategic-level education to Reserve and National Guard leaders.