The Defense Information School or DINFOS has succeeded, since January 1946, to grow and sustain a corps of professional organizational communicators who fulfill the communication needs of our military services, government leaders and partner nations! For the last 50 years, DINFOS has trained more than 100,000 communicators across the Department of Defense (DoD) and 80 different Allied nations to help their organizations achieve strategic and operational goals. In the coming years, DINFOS seeks to expand access to its training programs for interagency and international partners. The Defense Information School (DINFOS) is a DoD school located at Fort Meade, Maryland. The school trains more than 2,300 military, DoD civilian, international military, and interagency students a year across 32 basic, intermediate and advanced public affairs and visual information courses. Courses cover a variety of subject areas including public affairs, photography, photojournalism, broadcasting, broadcast maintenance, and multimedia.