AFIMSC Capability: Operational Acquisition

The Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center provides responsive and mission-enabling enterprise acquisition solutions across the Air and Space Force through the programs the Air Force Installation Contracting Center manages.

AFIMSC’s acquisition expertise increases innovation opportunities, forges new partnerships, accelerates change and enhances overall lethality and readiness.


Mission-Focused Enterprise Support
From maintaining and sustaining Air and Space Force installations, to providing goods and services in the combat environment and ensuring humanitarian efforts are properly sourced, AFIMSC delivers mission focused acquisition support to keep the mission going at all levels.

With locations around the world, AFICC provides above-wing-level operational acquisition solutions across the Air Force enterprise.

Increasing Lethality and Readiness Through Acquisition Excellence
AFIMSC uses the Air Force’s buying power to purchase needed goods and services with a goal of being good stewards of taxpayer dollars. The center’s primary subordinate units develop strategies based on Air Force needs and ensure acquisition tools are in place to procure equipment, services and facilities. This enterprise capability expedites acquisition awards and enhances mission effectiveness.

  • Civil Engineering: The cross-functional collaboration between AFIMSC’s operational acquisition capability and civil engineering capability has led to the development of cost-effective and innovative strategic acquisition solutions for commodities, services, and construction – enhancing installation operations and sustainment in support of the Air Force Civil Engineer Center. 
  • Security Forces: Dedicated contracting subject matter experts support the security forces capability by allowing the Air Force Security Forces Center to execute contracts that deliver mission-essential products and services expeditiously to warfighters around the globe.
  • Airmen and Family Services: AFIMSC’s operational acquisition capability delivers critical agile combat support and agile combat employment for deployments, contingency operations, non-combatant evacuation operations for natural disasters, and local exercises to support main operating bases, collocated operating bases, and allies and coalition forces benefiting Airmen and family services. 

Category Management 
Category Management is a structured, data-driven business practice whereby an organization strategically analyzes and manages common categories of spend in order to eliminate redundancies, increase efficiencies and enhance mission effectiveness. 

Operational Acquisition Readiness 
Major Command Functional Managers and Functional Area Managers deliver responsive and integrated agile combat support training and readiness for I&MS capabilities. MFM and FAM acquisition experts evaluate personnel placements to provide global acquisition career field manpower, manning, unit type code management and force development that ensures installation leaders receive trained and mission ready acquisition professionals.

Operational Acquisition by the Numbers

  • 9 operating locations support Air Force Major Commands and the U.S. Space Force
  • AFICC leads 750 operational acquisition professionals with a $55 billion contract portfolio
  • The 9 global operating locations, 8 enterprise sourcing squadrons and 2 enterprise contracting flights execute $9.1 billion in annual obligations in mission and installation support requirements
  • 10 enterprise sourcing squadrons, positioned as centers of excellence for distinct business-line strategic contract support, eliminate duplication of effort and contract execution for the same requirements

(Current as of February 2022)