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
With locations around the world, AFIMSC provides above-wing-level operational acquisition solutions across the Air Force enterprise. 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.
Increasing Lethality and Readiness Through Acquisition Excellence
AFIMSC uses the Air Force’s buying power to purchase needed goods and services while being good stewards of taxpayer dollars. AFIMSC develops strategies based on Air Force needs and ensures 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 executing 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 families.
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. Through Category Management, AFIMSC provides engineers a toolbox of contract options they can tap to procure facilities and construction services.
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.
(Current as of May 2024)