As Air Force Materiel Command consolidates its acquisition, sustainment, testing, and technology functions from 12 locations to five, it will reduce 1,051 acquisition positions at the management level, said AFMC chief Gen. Donald Hoffman Thursday at AFA’s Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando, Fla. The consolidation, announced last November, doesn’t run afoul of any potential new BRAC round, said Hoffman. “We’ve postured ourselves for efficiency, whether there’s a BRAC or not,” he asserted. There’s “no legislation that says, ‘don’t do it,'” but there is the 2011 Budget Control Act that demands that the Air Force “spend less money,” he said. BRAC 2005 “is history,” said Hoffman, and doesn’t “codify the future.”
The Air Force is on track to reach its annual goal of graduating 1,500 new pilots that had proved elusive to this point, one year after the service launched a sweeping overhaul of its undergraduate pilot training program, Air Education and Training Command said Sept. 14.
