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  • AFIMSC Portrait: Chantel Saunders

    AFIMSC Portrait highlights Chantel Saunders, an Anti-Terrorism and Force Protection Program manager at AFIMSC Detachment 8 at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia.

  • AFIMSC tool empowers installations with real-time budget insights

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas – The Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center has developed a new tool to provide installations real-time budget visibility and significantly reduce manual data processing. Developed by the AFIMSC Financial Management Directorate, the Budget Analysis

  • Mission Monday: AFIMSC Command Support Staff

    It’s Mission Monday! This week, we shine the spotlight on Staff Sgt. Emily V. Tucker, the NCOIC for Personnel Programs in the AFIMSC Command Support Staff at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas.

  • Lessons learned drive Air Force CSTR program improvements

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas – The Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center is improving the Combat Support Training Range program based on lessons learned from recent Air Task Force training events.The improvements will enhance the training experience and better prepare Air Force

  • Mission Monday: Financial Management and Comptroller

    It’s Mission Monday! Meet Cecilia Farias, an accountant dedicated to keeping the Air Force financially fit. She is a key member of the Financial Management and Comptroller team, Policy and Training Branch for the Air Force Services Center.

  • AFIMSC celebrates 10 years of making Air Force success its mission

    On April 6, 2015, the Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center was activated to centralize management support and consolidate enterprise-level installation and mission support operations to help commanders focus on their primary mission areas. Ten years later, AFIMSC is celebrating its

  • Mission Monday: Financial Technician

    It’s Mission Monday! Meet Briana Simon, a financial technician in the Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center Financial Management Directorate at Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota.

  • Mission Monday: Corrections Specialist Instructor

    It’s Mission Monday! Meet Staff Sgt. Benjamin Malloy, corrections specialist instructor in the Air Force Security Forces Center 320th Correctional and Rehabilitation Squadron at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, California.

  • New app helps leaders ensure Airman, Guardian financial readiness

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas – The Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center recently unveiled a groundbreaking app that puts real-time financial data in leaders’ hands to help Airmen, Guardians and their families maintain financial readiness. The AFIMSC Financial Management

  • Virtual Reality Firefighter Training Demonstration

    The Air Force Civil Engineer Center’s CE Lab is a program researching, developing, testing, and evaluating using Virtual Reality technology for firefighter training. Currently they are roughly 25% into the program, which has been fully funded.

  • IMSC Team Tuesday: AFCEC Airfield Pavement Evaluation

    This month’s AFIMSC Team Tuesday highlights the AFCEC Airfield Pavement Evaluation (APE) team based at Tyndall AFB, FL. These experts assess the viability of more than 200 airfields around the globe, looking at everything from surface conditions to risk of foreign object dam-age.

  • Mission Monday: AFSVC Financial Management

    It’s Mission Monday! Meet Brittney Brooks, lead financial management specialist for the Financial Management and Comptroller Directorate at the Air Force Services Center.  

  • AFIMSC releases 2024 year-in-review video

    The Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center released its annual recap video on January 6. In 2024, the focus was on boosting combat support, Airmen's readiness, and improving power-projection platforms to align with the Air Force's reoptimization priorities in the Great Power Competition.

  • 2024 AFMC Year in People

    Step into the highlights of 2024 with our Air Force Materiel Command "Year in People" photo spread!

  • AFCEC awards leases for 5G service at all CONUS bases

    The Air Force Civil Engineer Center recently finished awarding leases that will bring 5G service to 84 Air and Space Force installations by 2028, helping the workforce, Airmen, Guardians and their families stay connected through secure and reliable networks.

  • 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.

  • CSTR sites showcase capabilities during ATF training events

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas – As the first Air Task Forces go through the Prepare Phase of the Air Force Force Generation cycle, Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center-developed Combat Support Training Ranges are helping build mission-ready Airmen.Two ATFs recently wrapped up

  • I-WEPTAC teams propose solutions to most pressing DAF GPC needs

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas – Airmen presented innovative solutions for the Air Force’s most pressing Great Power Competition combat support needs during the second installment of the 2024 Installation and Mission Support Weapons and Tactics Conferences Nov. 15 at the Air Force

  • AFIMSC Portrait: Andrew Kellerman

    AFIMSC Portrait highlights Andrew Kellerman, program manager for Transportation Working Capital Fund, Facilities and Infrastructure for AFIMSC Detachment 9 in support of the Air Mobility Command strategic airlift mission.

  • AFIMSC uses gaming to ready I&MS teams for combat ops

    The Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center is using a board game and data-driven outcomes to prepare installation and mission support Airmen to successfully conduct agile combat employment operations in contested environments.

  • AFIMSC Portrait: Senior Master Sgt. Janna Hiett

    AFIMSC Portrait highlights Senior Master Sgt. Janna Hiett, superintendent at AFIMSC Detachment 4’s Protection Services Division at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Janna is responsible for organizing, training and equipping 119 U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa emergency managers.

  • Summit connects mission support leaders, focuses on GPC

    SAN ANTONIO, Texas – More than 170 leaders from Air and Space Forces installations gathered in San Antonio Oct. 31 to Nov. 1 for the annual Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center Mission Support Leadership Summit.With a focus on mission support in Great Power Competition, the summit

  • AFIMSC sweeps AFMC Sijan awards

    Airmen from the Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center recently won all four categories of the Air Force Materiel Command Lance P. Sijan Awards.

  • DAF to Commercialize Lodging Program

    In an effort to ensure a sustainable lodging business model, the Department of the Air Force has decided to pursue commercialization of its lodging program within the United States, its territories, and possessions.

  • AFIMSC executes record $9.4 billion in FY24

    The Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center executed a record $9.4 billion in operations and maintenance funds in the 2024 fiscal year, the most funding the center has obligated in a single year since declaring full operational capability eight years ago this month.

  • AFCEC APE team paves way to keep DAF mission in fight

    As the Department of the Air Force focuses on the Great Power Competition, the Air Force Civil Engineer Center Airfield Pavement Evaluation team is helping keep runways worldwide ready to support the mission.

  • AFIMSC declares FOC for HQ A-Staff transition

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas – The Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center's reorganization into an Air Force Forces staff structure, commonly referred to as an A-Staff, reached full operational capability Oct. 1.This achievement marks the culmination of a two-year effort to

  • Air Force gears up for first ATF training events at CSTR sites

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas – The Air Force is preparing for its first Air Task Force training events at Combat Support Training Range sites in November. The events will give Airmen from ATF Combat Air Base Squadrons, or CABS, an opportunity to train as a team and demonstrate the CSTR

  • Air Force announces second and third B-21 Raider bases

    The SECAF has approved the 2nd & 3rd basing locations for the B-21 Raider, the Air Force’s newest bomber. Those bases are Whiteman AFB, Mo., & Dyess AFB, Texas, in that order. Ellsworth AFB, S.D., was previously selected as the 1st base to receive the B-21.

  • AFIMSC partnership accelerates technology for I&MS capabilities

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas – The Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center is leveraging the AFWERX Expedient Basing Challenge to capitalize on industry expertise to rapidly address urgent Air Force needs.AFIMSC partnered with AFWERX to award contracts through the Expedient

  • Mission Monday: AFIMSC Operations Center

    It’s Mission Monday! Meet Alexander “Arch” Archibald, current operations planning manager and Security Forces representative for the Operations Center at Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center headquarters.

  • IMSC Team Tuesday: Logistics Detail (LOGDET)

    This Team Tuesday edition focuses on the Logistics Detail (LOGDET) of the Air Force Security Forces Center at Ft. Bliss, Texas. LOGDET, a group of experts, maintains and deploys essential equipment for global Security Forces operations. Check out the video to get more insights into this crucial

  • AFIMSC introduces combat support instructor course to increase ATF readiness

    FORT BLISS, Texas – The Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center is developing a course designed to equip combat air base squadron leaders with the skills needed to teach and lead combat support warfighters through every phase of the Air Force Force Generation model.The new Combat Support

  • Mission Monday: Security Forces Weapons and Tactics

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas – This week’s Mission Monday features Master Sgt. Bradley Akers, a program manager for the Security Forces Weapons and Tactics team at the Air Force Security Forces Center. Akers and the weapons and tactics team oversee the tactics development process for the

  • AFIMSC leads DAF-wide transition to VoIP technology

    An Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center-led initiative to replace outdated telephone switches across the Department of the Air Force is on pace to finish installation of 75 new systems by mid-2025.

  • DAF to test carbon-free, flex-fuel generators as energy resiliency option

    The Department of the Air Force plans to reduce its carbon footprint and enhance energy resiliency at installations by taking advantage of new power-generation technology. The DAF is awarding a contract for a prototype flex-fuel power generator to Mainspring Energy, Inc., and will test the

  • AFIMSC to showcase installation tech, tools at AirVenture Oshkosh

    Teams from the Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center will demonstrate their cutting-edge technology along with that of the other five Air Force Materiel Command centers July 22-28 at the world’s largest fly-in airshow in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

  • Civil engineer lab innovations advance Air Force readiness

    The CE laboratory at Tyndall AFB, part of the Air Force Civil Engineer Center, is at the forefront of innovation to assist engineers in maintaining the operational readiness of installations. This involves the exploration, creation, testing, and assessment of engineering technologies for use by

  • Getting to know the AFIMSC A9 Director

    The Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center director of the A9 Studies, Analyses, Assessments and Lessons Learned Directorate has a unique perspective on the Air Force few others can match.

  • DAF leaning forward with PFAS clean-up plan

    Armed with data from nearly 10 years of investigation and response to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance, or PFAS, releases at its installations, the Department of the Air Force is rolling new regulatory standards into its ongoing plan to address PFAS risks.

  • AFCEC safeguards cultural sites, strengthens tribal relations

    Air Force Civil Engineer Center Wildland Support Module specialists at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, are taking action to preserve sacred ceremonial rock art located on the installation to protect the indigenous cultural heritage while supporting the Department of the Air Force’s military

  • AFIMSC officer supports global interrogation training exercise

    An Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center Airman recently participated in a detention and interrogation exercise for 10 days at Drawsko Combat Training Center, Poland, to support a special training opportunity with allied countries.

  • AFIMSC focuses I-WEPTAC topics on GPC solutions

    The first of two 2024 Installation and Mission Support Weapons and Tactics Conferences concluded May 8 at the Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center when three teams presented solutions to advance agile combat support operations in an era of Great Power Competition.

  • AFIMSC tools deliver data-driven solutions across DAF

    The Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center’s Innovation and Improvement Division is transforming the way Airmen do business by integrating cutting-edge data-prep and data-visualization tools across the Department of the Air Force.

  • AFIMSC Values

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas - Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center’s values highlight what its 4,000-plus members support and represent as they execute their missions to strengthen Airmen, Guardians and their families and increase the lethality and readiness of the Department

  • Getting to know the AFIMSC Director of Personnel and Manpower

    The Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center’s Director of Personnel and Manpower began his Air Force career as a NAF summer hire at what was then Lackland Air Force Base, Texas.Steve Reichert was hired as a lifeguard in May 1987 while attending college at nearby Southwest Texas State

  • Global Strike Command wins CE Readiness Challenge X

    A team of Air Force Global Strike Command civil engineers hoisted the Readiness Challenge X winner’s trophy April 26 after a grueling six-day competition that tested 12 teams in more than 25 engineering skills ranging from firefighting to runway repair.