Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center

The Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center (AFIMSC) is a subsidiary command of the United States Air Force with the mission of delivering globally integrated installation and mission support to enhance warfighter readiness and lethality for America's Air and Space Forces. The commands vision is an integrated AFIMSC team capable of revolutionizing combat power and installation support for Airmen and families. AFIMSC is headquartered at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas and is one of six specialized centers assigned to Air Force Materiel Command. AFIMSC is responsible for providing installation and mission support capabilities to all Air Force and Space Force installations, major commands, and direct reporting units.

AFIMSC operates with an approximate $10 billion annual budget to provide management, resourcing, and combat support programs and services in the major mission areas of: airmen and family services, base communications, chaplain, civil engineering, contracting, financial management, logistics readiness, public affairs, and security forces. The command activated on April 6, 2015, reached an Initial Operating Capability on October 1, 2015, and achieved Full Operating Capability in October 2016. The consolidation of more than 150 capabilities in AFIMSC is intended to help major commands and direct reporting units focus on primary mission areas.

The Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center is comprised of its headquarters, ten detachments, and four primary subordinate units. The detachments were activated in April and May of 2016, while the primary subordinate units joined AFIMSC when the unit activated in April of 2015. Included at AFIMSC headquarters is the Expeditionary Support Directorate, Installation Support Directorate, and Resources Directorate.

The Expeditionary Support and Innovation Directorate is comprised of a strategy and innovation division and an expeditionary support division. This is intended to provide analysis and evaluation of strategic and operational concepts and plans, and it develops combat support lessons learned for joint and Air Force leaders to assist in future decision-making.

The Installation Support Directorate is comprised of seven subordinate divisions, which include installation engineering, protection services, cyber support, chaplain corps, installation deployment, Airman and family services, and mission activity integration. The directorate is intended to provide policy implementation guidance and oversight of day-to-day organization, training, and equipping of installation and mission support functions for civil engineering and installation planning capabilities. The protection services work to provide requirements for planning, validation, and reach back support for fire services, explosive ordnance disposal, emergency management, and security forces operations. Cyber support is intended to provide enterprise-wide cyberspace systems support and information access capabilities across the Air Force.

The chaplain corps is focused on delivering finance, personnel, and readiness installation and mission support capabilities to commanders while ensuring the free exercise of religion for warfighters and families. While installation deployment is responsible for providing ground and air transportation functions, traffic management, cargo and passenger travel, and logistics support. And the airman and family services division offers support for all force support morale, welfare, and recreation, including child and youth programs and food and lodging activity programs.

The Resources Directorate includes five divisions, including resource management analysis, cost and comparative analysis, financial operations, integration, and planning and programming. The resource management analysis is intended to lead and inform budget and execution year funding drills, funds distribution and execution strategies, and offer integrated decision support. The cost and comparative analysis works to provide decision support and comparative analyses requirements. The financial operations responsibilities include program analysis, metrics, oversight, and execution impacting military, civilian, and travel pay entitlements, disbursing operations, banking operations, and audit readiness compliance. The integration division works to achieve integration of ideas, concepts, innovation, and personnel actions across the Resources Directorate. While the planning and programming division is responsible for planning and programming of resources, including the strategic programming of refined functional inputs.

The AFIMSC detachments are intended to serve as liaison and on-site support between major commands at their locations and the AFIMSC enterprise. This includes the provision of responsive coordination and management of SFIMSC assets for command-specific installation and mission support priorities and concerns. The capabilities of the detachments include civil engineering, communications, financial management, logistics, and security forces.

AFIMSC is comprised of four Primary Subordinate Units, or PSUs, which joined AFIMSC when the unit activated on April 6, 2015. These PSUs include the Air Force Civil Engineer Center, the Air Force Installation Contracting Center, the Air Force Security Forces Center, and the Air Force Services Center.

The Air Force Civil Engineer Center (AFCEC) is headquartered at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas and is responsible for providing civil engineering services and expertise to support Air Force installations and warfighters. The AFCEC works to maintain the facilities and platforms of the United States Air Force; the AFCEC mantra is "brilliant at the basics." The PSU is led by a one-star general, and the missions undertaken by AFCEC include facility investment planning, design and construction, operations support, property management, energy support, environmental compliance and restoration, readiness and emergency management, and audit assertions. The team conducts operations at more than seventy-five global locations and oversees around $11.8 billion in contracts, manages $7 billion in housing, and $5 billion in Enhanced Use Lease portfolios.

The Air Force Installation Contracting Center (AFICC) is headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, and is postured to support the Air Force worldwide. The PSUs mission is to "fly, fight, and win - through agile, innovative and mission focused business solutions" with an organizational vision of "global change agents - embracing collaboration, innovation, trust, empowerment and risk".

AFICC is responsible for providing mission-enabling enterprise acquisition solutions for effective and efficient mission and installation operations across the Air Force. AFICC works to play a role in accomplishing Air Force missions by providing non-organic capabilities to the Air Force and joint warfighter. This includes providing business advices and contract support to Air Force major commands, contracting authority to operational contracting squadrons, enterprise, regional, and local sourcing solutions to affect rate, process and demand, and maximize the use of the Air Force installation spend. AFICC is also the lead for the Air Force contingency contracting operations.

The Air Force Security Forces Center (AFSFC) is headquartered at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. The PSU's defines its missions as "developing, delivering, and executing Security Forces capabilities and associated programs for Air Force and Joint mission sets enabling a safe and secure operating environment" with an organizational vision of "driving integrated protection for the Air Force through innovation and deliberate program execution."

To achieve their mission, AFSFC trains, equips, and manages program execution for the Air Force Security Forces enterprise globally. This includes cross-functional teams that can provide subject matter expertise to help with integration, innovation, and advancement of Security Forces mission sets. This includes delivering defense services, conducting law and order operations, and providing security protection for nuclear and non-nuclear assets. AFSFC offers a Security Forces career and informs the AFIMSC plans and programming process of Security Forces functionally-prioritized requirements.

The Air Force Services Center (AFSVC) is headquartered at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas and works to deliver services programs and activities to build and sustain Airmen and families. The AFSVC's stated mission is "deliver innovative Services capabilities to generate combat-ready, resilient warfighters" with the organizational vision of "Services professionals investing in Airmen and families, anywhere, anytime."

The AFSVC works to accomplish its organizational goals through the support of bases, major commands, and air staff through technical assistance, new initiatives, developing programs and procedures and managing central support functions in order to ensure the operation of essential food, fitness, child care, lodging, and recreation opportunities for military members and their families.