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  • AFICC-hosted summit preps acquisition pros for GPC operations

    More than 300 contracting professionals gathered in San Antonio Nov. 12-14 for the 2024 Worldwide Operational Acquisition Training Summit to collaborate about how to better execute installation and mission support programs for Air Force Great Power Competition operations.

  • Mission Monday: MAJCOM contracting support

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas – It’s Mission Monday. Meet Paul Lewis, senior contract specialist with the Air Force Installation Contracting Center’s 338th Enterprise Sourcing Squadron at JBSA-Randolph. Lewis and his team support the sustainment of Air Education and Training Command’s $1.4

  • 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 Program Management

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas – It’s Mission Monday. Meet Gary Lee Fowler, an acquisition program manager in the Air Force Installation Contracting Center’s 763rd Enterprise Sourcing Squadron at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois.He’s responsible for developing, establishing, implementing and

  • 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: Acquisition Program Management

    WRIGHT-PATERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – It’s Mission Monday. Lynn Bauer is an acquisition program manager and section chief with the Air Force Installation Contracting Center’s 771st Enterprise Sourcing Squadron. Bauer and her team deliver strategic acquisition solutions at the enterprise level. We

  • Mission Monday: Category management 

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – It’s Mission Monday. Meet Kevin Herstine, chief of the Air Force Installation Contracting Center’s Category Management Branch here. Herstine and his team are responsible for the Department of the Air Force’s Category Management Program Support Office which

  • 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

  • DAF reaches $3 billion cost savings across enterprise

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas -- The Air Force operational acquisition community recently achieved a huge goal: saving the Department of the Air Force more than $3 billion. “This is a very important milestone as we strive to accelerate change and get after the Secretary of the Air Force’s

  • AFIMSC executes record $8.8 billion in FY22

    The Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center closed out a challenging year in the last hours of FY22, executing more than $8.8 billion. It’s the most funding AFIMSC has obligated in a year since the center declared full operational capability six years ago this month.

  • AFA honors former AFICC contracting officer as top civilian

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas – Kori McNabb's contributions to the Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center's mission recently earned her the Air Force Association Lisa S. Disbrow Outstanding Civilian of the Year Award.As the lead contracting specialist with the Air Force

  • Registration opens for I-WEPTAC 2022

    Registration is now open for the Installation and Mission Support Weapons and Tactics Conference, the main innovation and collaboration forum for installation and mission support to the Air and Space Forces.

  • AFIMSC Mission Spotlight: 763rd ESS keeps AMC mission going

    With teammates at Scott AFB, Illinois, and Pope Army Airfield, North Carolina, the 763rd Enterprise Sourcing Squadron executes enterprise and above wing-level Air Mobility Command mission requirements through agile, cost-effective acquisition solutions. 

  • AFIMSC acquisition team in running for DOD award for COVID-19 efforts

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas – A small Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center team recently garnered Air Force-level recognition for its vast life-saving impact during the COVID-19 pandemic. The 45-person, 773rd Enterprise Sourcing Squadron team was selected as an Air

  • 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

  • AFICC delivers innovative VR suicide prevention training to save lives

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas – With a rise in suicides across the service, the Air Force Installation Contracting Center is helping leaders fast-track a pilot program at Air Mobility Command to help save lives.The virtual reality suicide training being tested at Scott AFB, Illinois, and

  • COMPUSEC automation delivers time, cost savings

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas – A new computer security automated process, developed by the Air Force Installation Contracting Center, could mean significant time and cost savings for Airmen across the Air Force.A three-person team of AFICC Chief Information Officer Matt Seibert and

  • 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,

  • Partnerships strengthen Defender capabilities

    Through an innovative acquisition model developed by the Air Force Installation Contracting Center, the Air Force Security Forces Center is now able to procure gear and resources for Security Forces Defenders much faster.

  • AFCEC restoring iconic Cadet Chapel at U.S. Air Force Academy

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas – The Air Force Civil Engineer Center is renovating an iconic Air Force symbol – the Cadet Chapel at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado. The $158 million project aims to fix structural damage to eliminate a longstanding leakage problem after years of

  • $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.