The Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center enhances Air Force lethality and readiness by funding mission-critical requirements at the right time and at the right level as well as delivering clear financial operations policy and guidance to support timely, accurate pay and audit remediation.
AFIMSC’s financial management capability delivers clear, unbiased analysis and decision support to commanders, and financial management customers, helping Air Force leaders clearly understand the financial impact of decision alternatives and make fully defendable resource decisions.
Driving the Mission
Financial analysis, resource planning and customer support and guidance provided by AFIMSC helps sustain installation and mission support operations.
Utilizing financial tools and funds status trackers, AFIMSC reduces the workload for planners and programmers. AFIMSC’s more than $8 billion annual budget supports all Air Force and Space Force installations, eight Air Force major commands, and AFIMSC’s four primary subordinate units and 10 detachments.
Financial Analysis
Installations and major commands receive expert specialized financial analysis, decision support and training through AFIMSC. These efforts vary and cover areas such as process improvement events, business case analyses, lease versus purchase analyses, and completing analyses required by policy for proposed projects.
Resource Planning and Customer Support
AFIMSC delivers globally integrated financial guidance and decision support for I&MS portfolios, installations and primary subordinate units. Financial management experts provide the tools and support commanders need to evaluate the holistic health of their base, to smartly prioritize funds and enable a risk-balanced portfolio and maximize strategic resourcing allocations enterprise-wide.
- Budget Execution
- Accurate, timely, and relevant financial data
- Tools and training
- Requirements planning
- Cost estimating
Technical Guidance and Policy
Global financial operations are executed through AFIMSC’s expert policy support and technical guidance for pay, travel and oversight programs.
Additional responsibilities include:
- Program analysis, metrics, oversight and execution directly impacting military, civilian and travel pay entitlements
- Disbursing operations
- Banking operations
- Financial Improvement and Audit Remediation compliance
- Quality assurance
- Internal controls
- Non-appropriated funds
- Anti-deficiency Act and audit liaison programs
- Defense Travel System and Government Travel Card programs
AFIMSC serves as the focal point for the integration of strategy and policy, delivering superior decision support and facilitating the flow of ideas across the organization.
The center is responsible for providing enterprise-wide planning (Planning Choices - 30-year plan) and programming (Program Objective Memorandums - 5-year Future Year Defense Program) resource advocacy supporting national and strategic objectives through a transparent governance process.
Financial Readiness
MAJCOM Functional Managers and Functional Area Managers deliver responsive and integrated agile combat support training and readiness for I&MS capabilities. MFM and FAM financial experts evaluate personnel placements to provide global career field manpower, manning, unit type code management and force development that ensures installation leaders receive trained and mission-ready financial professionals.
(Current as of February 2022)