 It embodies the College's effort to be the center of excellence in strategic thinking on national security matters in the Philippines and in the Asia-Pacific region.The Crisis Management Institute (CMI), formerly the "Emergency Management Institute of the Philippines (EMIP)", is envisioned to be the country's center for education, training, and research on crisis management, terrorism, and other transnational crimes, and as the premier training resource for technical cooperation in emergency management in the Asia-Pacific region.The Defense Management Institute (DMI), formerly the "Institute for Extramural and Continuing Studies (IECS)", is envisioned to be the key training institution on certificate and diploma courses on National Security Administration and to be a recognized training institution in the Asia-Pacific.