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Record budget helps Air Force tackle environmental issues
April 24, 2023 — The Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center is bringing this year’s “Invest in Our Planet” Earth Day theme to life as the center’s global environmental team continues to support innovative restoration projects driven by a record-high budget. Within AFIMSC’s Air Force Civil Engineer Center, the environmental directorate is putting $574 million to work at active installations while the Base Realignment and Closure program spends $175 million for restoration at closed installations. ... MORE

Former Kelly Air Force Base wins national EPA excellence award in site reuse
January 26, 2023 — The Environmental Protection Agency has recognized former Kelly Air Force Base, Texas, as one of its 2022 National Federal Facility Excellence in Site Reuse Award winners... MORE

Contractors dig a site on the former Kelly Air Force Base, Texas.

AFICC creates innovative contract vehicle for BRAC program
November 24, 2020 — The Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center has a new contract vehicle to help the Base Realignment and Closure program achieve site cleanup and closure at some of the Air Force's most challenging sites... 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

Christiana Hewitt, a BRAC environmental coordinator with the Air Force Civil Engineer Center's Base Realignment and Closure program, accesses GeoBase at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland June 20. A BRAC team developed and transferred geospatial data for 39 BRAC installations onto the Air Force GeoBase, which centralizes all geospatial data and utilizes modern information procedures and technology to display and query data quickly and accurately.

Air Force civilian selected for 2017 USAF Portraits in Courage
August 5, 2017 — Gregory Gangnuss, Air Force Civil Engineer Center environmental engineer and program chief at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, is one of 49 Airmen to be memorialized in the 10th edition of the Air Force Chief of Staff’s “Portraits in Courage.”... MORE

Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski congratulates Greg Gangnuss after presenting him with the Air Force Civilian Award for Valor during a Feb. 22 commander’s call at Joint Base San Antonio, Texas.

AFIMSC civilian honored for heroism
February 27, 2017 — Greg Gangnuss, a civilian member of the Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center, was on a voluntary deployment to Afghanistan as a senior environmental advisor for the Ministry of Defense Advisor Program when a helicopter carrying nine coalition members crashed after striking a cable while landing at the NATO Resolute Support Mission headquarters in Kabul on Oct. 11, 2015, killing five people on board. Gangnuss helped rescue four, including Col. Laurel Burkel... MORE