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  • Mission Monday: Acquisition Solutions

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas – It’s Mission Monday. Meet Martin Rodriguez, a contract specialist with the Air Force Installation Contracting Center’s 772nd Enterprise Sourcing Squadron in San Antonio. He delivers for the Department of the Air Force by finding and developing innovative

  • LMR contract mod delivers reliability, security to sister service 

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas – The Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center is extending secure, reliable communications to U.S. Army in Europe leaders and first responders. Following the success of an Enterprise Land Mobile Radio Lifecycle Management & Sustainment Services

  • Mission Monday: Acquisition Research & Development Support

    OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. – It’s Mission Monday. Meet Alan Brady, a flight chief with the Air Force Installation Contracting Center’s 774th Enterprise Sourcing Squadron here.Brady and the 774th ESS team serves the Department of Defense’s research community to advance state-of-the-art, highly

  • Mission Monday: Contracting support to the medical community

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas – It’s Mission Monday. Jackelin Guerrero Funes is a contract specialist with the Air Force Installation Contracting Center’s 773rd Enterprise Sourcing Squadron here.Funes works on pre- and post-award contractual actions in support of the Air Force Medical

  • AFICC change agents win Air Force acquisition awards

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas – Five Air Force Installation Contracting Center change agents recently earned top honors in the 2021 Secretary of the Air Force Innovation in Air Force Contracting Awards recognition program. “We are so proud of all the SAF Innovation awardees, especially

  • Air Force, Army build on joint contracting operations with JFCE 2021

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- Army and Air Force contracting experts are strengthening joint operations by reviving joint exercises, beginning with the Joint Force Contracting Exercise 2021 June 21-25 at numerous locations.The JFCE, the first Air Force/Army training exercise since 2017, gave

  • Contracting Airmen, Soldiers ready for joint contracting exercise

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas -- Contracting Soldiers from across the U.S. Army’s Mission and Installation Contracting Command are joining their Air Force counterparts June 21-25 for the virtual 2021 Joint Forces Contracting Exercise.With the 2021 Joint Forces Contracting Exercise,

  • AFICC/KU turns innovations into solutions, processes with iHub

    The website encourages collaboration and increases shared knowledge between AFICC/KU, USAFE-AFAFRICA contracting squadrons and mission-focused business leaders, or MFBL, to spark innovations. Change agents can use the website as a filter for information to streamline processes or solve issues within

  • AFICC increases COVID-19 testing capabilities at 42 medical centers

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas – A new $33 million contract, awarded by the Air Force Installation Contracting Center’s 773rd Enterprise Sourcing Squadron, is increasing COVID-19 testing at 42 military treatment facilities.The contract, awarded Sept. 30 to BioDefense LLC of Salt Lake City,

  • Fingerprints of influence: 378 ECONS helps build Prince Sultan Air Base

    Prince Sultan Air Base has been open and operational for less than a year, and with that, changes and improvements continually occur. Smith and Thulin, deployed from the Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center, and his team lessen the burden on military members with the work they do.

  • $2B Air Force savings goal surpassed with help from 374 CONS

    Talents across the Air Force have meticulously focused resources on reducing military spending and contracting squadrons globally have now surpassed a $2B goal—six months ahead of schedule. The Yokota 374th Contracting Squadron, credits their hand in this united success to their change-agent

  • AFCEC awards Offutt runway repair contract

    The Air Force Civil Engineer Center recently awarded a $143.9 million contract to replace the runway at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska. The project is a collaborative effort between AFCEC, Offutt and the Air Force Installation Contracting Center.

  • AFCEC spearheads Little Rock AFB runway replacement

    The Air Force Civil Engineer Center is leading a $180 million project to replace the 64-year-old runway at Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas. AFCEC’s Facility Engineering Directorate is teaming with the Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center’s Detachment 9, 772nd Enterprise Sourcing

  • Air Force awards Little Rock runway repair contract

    The Air Force Civil Engineer Center, in collaboration with Little Rock AFB, Arkansas, the Air Force Installation Contracting Center and the Air Force Installation Mission Support Center's Detachment 9, awarded a $180 million contract to complete the runway replacement at the base. The project will

  • AFCAP V increases field assistance

    The Air Force recently awarded an eight-year, $6.4 billion contingency support contract to eight firms. The Air Force Contract Augmentation Program, or AFCAP, is a rapid response contingency contract tool managed and serviced through the Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center enterprise.

  • AFICC dashboard to help cleanup custodial costs

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas -- Air Force Installation Contracting Center is set to launch a new dashboard in the coming weeks that will help installations save money with custodial services.The Custodial Services Dashboard directly supports category management, a federal government-wide

  • Contracting pros deliver to COVID-19 front lines

    The Air Force Installation Contracting Center’s 763rd Specialized Contracting Squadron is delivering a plethora of fast-tracked emergency support to Air Mobility Command in days, if not hours.

  • Fiscal triad delivers for the Tyndall Rebuild

    The final months of FY19 were rewarding for Tyndall Air Force Base as they received the June 2019 Supplemental Appropriations for Disaster Relief Act to increase their annual operations and maintenance budget by a massive 450 percent. Under the act, O&M funding assigned $56 million to sustain

  • First virtual pitch day contract awarded

    U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa A8I Operational Innovation Branch and the 764th Enterprise Sourcing Squadron awarded their first virtual Pitch Day contract, Dec. 13.

  • New podcast targets Air Force contracting, acquisition fields

    “The Contracting Experience” is a new Air Force Materiel Command podcast for the contracting workforce that provides insight into evolving issues, high-performance leadership and lessons from the field through conversations with acquisition influencers and Contracting leaders.