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AFIMSC fiscal closeout promotes readiness, supports Airmen and families
October 4, 2019 — Funding runway lights at Little Rock; replacing cooling towers at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base; renovating the iconic Air Force Academy chapel; and natural disaster recovery at Air Force installations around the globe.No fiscal year better illustrates the innovation and flexibility behind the Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center’s centralized management of the Air Force’s installation and mission support portfolio than fiscal year 2019... MORE

AFMC commander visits JBSA, lauds AFIMSC
September 12, 2019 — Gen. Arnold W. Bunch, Jr., commander of Air Force Materiel Command, told an audience at an All Call Sept. 5 at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland that the missions the Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center conducts are critical to ensuring national defense... MORE

AFIMSC seeks to transform Air Force environmental program with latest drone technology
September 11, 2019 — The Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland is leveraging the latest unmanned aerial system technology to transform the Air Force environmental program... MORE

AFIMSC, AF Chief Data Office enable readiness through cloud-based visualization tool
September 6, 2019 — The Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center Innovation Office and the Air Force Chief Data Office successfully built AFIMSC’s highly successful Installation Health Assessments using the Tableau visualization tool hosted on the Air Force’s Visible, Accessible, Understandable, Linked, and Trusted, or VAULT, Data Platform... MORE

AFIMSC-BESPIN alliance improves mission support capabilities
August 23, 2019 — An alliance between the Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland and the Business and Enterprise Systems Product Innovation office is improving mission support capabilities. ... MORE

Air Force workshop focuses on installation support, environmental stewardship
August 19, 2019 — Building resilient installations was the theme of an Air Force Civil Engineer Center workshop that brought together environmental, public affairs and other base professionals Aug. 13-15 in San Antonio... MORE

AFIMSC navigates storms, disasters to exceed 84 percent budget execution
August 2, 2019 — A flexible strategy combined with strong partnerships that focus on taking care of Airmen. That’s what helped the Air Force exceed a goal to execute more than 83 percent of its $7 billion installation and mission support portfolio by the July 31 deadline... MORE

Wilcox takes command of Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center
July 25, 2019 — Maj. Gen. Tom Wilcox said he is excited to join the team revolutionizing installation and mission support after taking command of the Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center during a ceremony at the Gateway Club at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland July 25... MORE

Commentary: Innovation 'advances the ball'
July 11, 2019 — I’ve been a proponent of innovation for the majority of my more than 32-year Air Force career. I feel so strongly about the importance of having an environment of innovation in the workplace that I made it one of my leadership priorities when I first became a commander in the mid-1990s... MORE

Air Force BRAC program reaches innovation milestone
July 1, 2019 — The Air Force Civil Engineer Center’s Installations Directorate recently reached a significant innovation milestone stemming from a five-year effort... MORE

Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center redesignates contracting, services units
June 27, 2019 — The Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland formally re-designated two of its primary subordinate units June 25 to bring them in line with Air Force naming conventions... MORE

DOD seeks feedback from Airmen, families on Housing Resident Bill of Rights
June 17, 2019 — The Department of Defense is asking current residents of military privatized housing to provide feedback on a draft version of a Resident Bill of Rights. The Air Force is part of a tri-service initiative to create a Resident Bill of Rights that identifies the basic housing rights of service members and their families living in privatized housing... MORE

Healthy foods add spice to life
June 13, 2019 — As part of its mission to deliver healthy food options to Airmen and families across the Air Force, the Air Force Services Center, in partnership with the Culinary Institute of America San Antonio, held its first techniques for healthy cooking class June 3-7 focusing on nonappropriated fund food and beverage chefs and cooks... MORE

Installation Health Assessment goes live in the cloud
June 7, 2019 — The status of Air Force installation and mission support programs is now just a click away, thanks to the new Installation Health Assessment tool’s cloud analytics capability. The Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland first launched the IHA in 2017 as a first-of-its-kind, metrics-based framework to integrate information from authoritative databases across the I&MS enterprise... MORE

Air Force completes test of combat support innovation
May 22, 2019 — The Air Force completed the final test of an innovative warfighting concept May 12 that could be a game-changer for future adaptive-basing constructs. The Combat Support Wing proof-of-concept capstone exercise developed by the Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center and hosted by Air Combat Command’s 4th Fighter Wing at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina, tested the ability of three teams of about 30 Airmen each to establish and operate an airfield in an austere environment... MORE

Cost-saving travel initiative projected to save $5M annually
May 17, 2019 — A new travel payment process for pipeline students, initiated by the Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center, is projected to save the Air Force $5 million a year... MORE

Global housing symposium focuses on relationship building and enterprise-wide support
May 14, 2019 — Improving the Air Force privatized housing program to meet the needs of Airmen and their families was the central focus of a three-day Global Housing Symposium in San Antonio May 7-9... MORE

Healthy Food Initiative delivers nutritious, tasty food for today’s warfighters
April 26, 2019 — After years of concentrating on serving healthy food in its dining facilities, the Air Force is now doubling down to make sure meals not only deliver great nutrition but an abundance of flavor as well... MORE

I-WEPTAC delivers third straight year of innovation
April 15, 2019 — Mission Area Working Groups delivered innovative solutions to the Air Force’s top Agile Combat Support challenges at the 3rd Annual Installation and Mission Support Weapons and Tactics Conference outbrief at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland April 10... MORE

AFIMSC partners with industry for future success
April 12, 2019 — Operating at the speed of relevance is key to Air Force future success and that’s not possible without partnering with industry. That was the message delivered by presenters during the annual Air Force Installation and Mission Support Industry Day held in conjunction with AFIMSC’s Installation and Mission Support Weapons and Tactics Conference at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland April 9... MORE