The Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center Public Affairs capability helps the Department of the Air Force advance mission priorities by ensuring public affairs professionals have the training, resources and support they need to successfully conduct their environmental, continuous evaluation, security and policy review, and broader worldwide communication programs.
Environmental Support
AFIMSC supports Air Force environmental program objectives by communicating the service’s commitment to public involvement and environmental excellence.
In accordance with Air Force Instruction 35-101, PA informs and involves audiences during critical decision-making windows, reviews all environmental documents intended for public release, and provides Air Force- and Space Force–wide reach-back support to PA offices.
Unit Self-Assessment Reviews
AFIMSC helps PA offices in the field communicate critical needs to wing commanders and Air Force leaders. AFIMSC reviews unit self -assessments in the Management Internal Control Toolkit to ensure units provide standardized, timely and accurate program assessment results. Through unit self-assessment training and more than 90 biannual wing-level reviews, AFIMSC maximizes the effectiveness of Air Force inspection programs and delivers continual evaluation trend analysis to decision makers.
Security and Policy Review
AFIMSC ensures thorough review and timely release of public information by managing the higher-level coordination of security and policy review cases originating at the wing level. The division averages about 400 review cases annually.
Training and Readiness
Major Command Functional Managers and Functional Area Managers deliver credible, responsive and integrated agile combat support training and readiness for I&MS capabilities. MFM and FAM PA experts evaluate personnel placements to provide global PA career field manpower, manning, unit type code management and force development that ensures installation leaders receive trained and mission-ready PA professionals.
Public Affairs Operations
AFIMSC conducts PA operations to support transparency, ensure consistent and accurate messaging, protect operational security and enhance awareness of AFIMSC’s role in national defense.
The AFIMSC PA Division maximizes storytelling opportunities and ensures consistent messaging by serving as the central point of contact and reach-back support to installation leaders and public affairs offices for all I&MS programs in AFIMSC mission sets.
(Current as of October 2021)