For 70 years, the Defense Language Institution Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC) and its predecessors have played a vital role in maintaining the security of the United States of America by "delivering the world's best culturally based foreign language training and education--at the point of need". to U.S. military personnel, the U.S. Coast Guard, and other federal agencies. Today, at any given time, over 3,500 students attend the Institute's campus at the historic Presidio of Monterey where twenty-four basic foreign language courses are taught in residence by mostly native speakers with additional languages taught as needed through a branch office in Washington, D.C. Distance learning technology and deployed language training detachments greatly extent this capability. An accredited institution, DLIFLC awards the Associates of Arts Degree in Foreign Languages to students meeting all necessary requirements.

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Tokyo Language Program : U.S. Embassy, Japan, pre-1941 -- Fourth Army Intelligence School : Presidio of San Francisco, 1941-1942 -- Military Intelligence Service Language School : Camp Savage and Fort Snelling, 1942-1946 -- U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Japanese language schools : Berkeley, Boulder, Stillwater, 1941-1946 -- U.S. Army Language School : Presidio of Monterey, 1947-1963 -- Defense Language Institute : West Coast/East Coast, 1963-1974 -- Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center : Presidio of Monterey, 1974 -2001 -- Global language training, 2001-present.