The Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center helps the Department of the Air Force protect the nation by ensuring security forces personnel have the training and resources they need to protect, defend and fight. AFIMSC develops, manages and executes security forces capabilities and associated programs for DAF and joint mission sets to provide safe and secure operating environments.
Planning, Programming and Budgeting
AFIMSC manages programs and provides the planning and budgeting necessary to execute security forces operations. AFIMSC validates current-year requirements to properly designate funding, conducts continual program execution evaluation at the squadron level, and provides functional expertise to the Installation Health Assessment process to increase installation resiliency and force protection. AFIMSC detachments also provide antiterrorism program management support to major commands. Installation Health Assessment functions include:
- Integrates and assesses 22 I&MS mission areas
- Evaluates performance, cost and modernization
- Assigns risk to mission and force
- Informs the planning and programming process to shape installations of the future
Security Forces Operations
AFIMSC trains, equips and manages program execution for the security forces enterprise worldwide. AFIMSC provides subject matter expertise to the field to drive integration and innovation. AFIMSC enables missions by providing security forces functional implementation policy guidance, identifying and evaluating functional requirements, plans and programming processes of security forces prioritized requirements.
Security Forces Mission Areas
- Integrated Air Base Defense Security
- Ground Combat and Advanced Deployment Readiness Training
- Law and Order Operations
- Security Protection for Nuclear and Non-nuclear Assets
- Military Working Dog Training and Care
- Air Force Corrections Management
- Logistics Support for Individual and Team Equipment
- Training and Maintenance for Small Arms and Light Weaponry
- Sustainment and Other Vital Ancillary Training Requirements
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 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 professionals.
(Current as of May 2024)