Air Force Materiel Command boss Gen. Janet Wolfenbarger and Maj. Gen. Theresa Carter, commander of the provisional Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center, recently welcomed new members into the center during a town hall meeting at JBSA-Lackland, Texas. Lackland’s Air Force Civil Engineer Center, Air Force Security Forces Center, Air Force Materiel Command Services Directorate, and several local squadrons assigned to the Air Force Installation Contracting Agency, in addition to the Financial Management Center of Expertise in Denver and Air Force Financial Services Center at Ellsworth AFB, S.D., all realigned under AFMC as of Oct. 1. They are now attached to AFIMSC(P). “We determined there was merit in figuring out how we could centralize installation management functions that today are executed across all of the major commands, put those together, realize some synergies, and reduce resourcing as a result,” Wolfenbarger said. “This was the biggest strategic initiative that was put on the table in response to the Secretary of Defense’s mandate to reduce management headquarters by 20 percent.”
The Air Force awarded a $13.08 billion contract to the Sierra Nevada Corporation on April 26 for its Survivable Airborne Operations Center aircraft, the successor to the service’s E-4B “Doomsday” plane. Like the E-4B, officially called the National Airborne Operations Center, the SAOC will be meant to withstand a nuclear attack and keep…