U.S. Air Force Fact Sheet

AIR FORCE LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT AGENCY

The Air Force Logistics Management

Agency, with headquarters at Maxwell Air

Force Base Gunter Annex, Ala., is a field

operating agency that reports to the

Director of Transformation, Office of the

Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics,

Installations and Mission Support,

Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington,

D.C.

Mission

To sharpen agile combat support capabilities

by generating logistics solutions, supporting

wargames, and publishing ACS literature.

The AFLMA mission is to consult, conduct

studies, manage Air Force logistics

wargaming participation. The agency

develops Department of Defense and civilian

partnerships to support the development of

policy and identify the resources needed to

deliver effective agile combat support across

the full spectrum of operations. The AFLMA

produces solutions to logistics problems and designs new and improved concepts, methods,

and systems to improve overall logistics and combat capability. Also, the AFLMA publishes the

Air Force Journal of Logistics and other publications on logistics issues.

Personnel

The staff is authorized 52 military and civilian members, including 32 advanced academic

degree authorizations.

Organization

Within AFLMA, there are five divisions: Logistics Studies, Logistics Business Operations,

Logistics Transformation, Logistics Wargames, and Logistics Analysis.

The Logistics Studies Division comprises three branches: Contracting, Maintenance, and

Readiness. Many of the personnel slots within the division are coded for advanced academic

degrees, which are often filled by Air Force Institute of Technology graduates. Products from

this division propose solutions that are not specific to a particular major command, but rather

reflect an Air Force-centric view. The Contracting Branch focuses on developing procedures to

enhance contracting effectiveness. The Maintenance Branch focuses on the study of logistics

issues that impact the future of Air Force aircraft, munitions and missile maintenance. Branch

members possess "hands-on" maintenance and contracting experience, as well as ready

access to Headquarters USAF and MAJCOM staffs. The Readiness Branch mission is to

enhance agile combat support and facilitate transformation by performing world-class

improvement and consulting studies for a wide range of deployment and distribution planning

issues affecting Air Force policy. Branch members have combined experience in the many

facets of transportation, supply and logistics plans.

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The Logistics Business Operations Division includes the office of the Air Force Journal of

Logistics, information technology and business support offices. The mission of the office of the

Air Force Journal of Logistics is to publish the Air Force's only professional journal for logistics,

engineering, and services. In addition to this publication, the office also publishes a variety of

monographs and books.

The Logistics Transformation Division is dedicated to transformation efforts in the logistics

community, heavily focused on Logistics Enterprise Architecture, or LogEA, and Expeditionary

Combat Support System, or ECCS. LogEA is the single authoritative source of processes and

systems models for Air Force logistics. It establishes the process framework, standards and

guidelines to define the environment in which future state systems can be identified, acquired or

built. It aims to serve as a catalyst for developing doctrine, policies and organizational structure

to position the Air Force for efficient and effective logistics support. LogEA will be an aggregate

of graphical depictions of AF logistics processes, information, and their interaction that will

provide a capability to plan, model, and simulate future logistic visions. This will help plan

investments, give insight to redundancies, sub-optimizations, and guide further transformation

within the logistics domain. The Air Force has chosen an Enterprise Resource Planning strategy

to define the system that will enable LogEA. ECSS is the system fulfilling this Enterprise

Resource Planning role. This division strives to further transformation through research and

implementation of eLog21 initiatives.

The Logistics Wargames Division enhances agile combat support and facilitates

transformation by designing and executing comprehensive logistics play in Air Force Title X

wargames. It supports a variety of other Air Force wargames as well as Office of the Secretary

of Defense, joint and interagency sponsored events. In addition, the division is the lead for the

agency's increasing role in logistics modeling and simulation. As a key adviser for the Logistics

M&S Integrated Product Team, this division is directly supporting the development of both a

strategic and implementation plan. The plans are aimed at developing a strategic framework

from which to acquire, develop, manage and operate logistics modeling and simulation

solutions. These solutions will enable the Air Force to organize, train, educate, equip and

employ current, and future air, space, and cyberspace forces for the joint warfighter.

The Logistics Analysis Division provides analytical and quantitative support for agency

projects. The division reviews project reports for technical quality, and leads analysis efforts for

quantitative, modeling and simulation projects. Also, the division provides analytical support for

logistics play at major Air Force and DOD wargames.

Vision

Generating transformational solutions, focusing the logistics enterprise of the future.

A vital element of attaining the AFLMA vision with dwindling resources will be the application of

Air Force Smart Operation for the 21st Century or AFSO 21 principles to the internal processes

of the agency. All resources must be focused on the mission, eliminating non-value added

efforts and executing the mission efficiently and effectively. At the same time, AFSO 21

principles will be incorporated in the recommendations developed by the AFLMA, so that

decisions based on those recommendations will yield efficient and effective processes

throughout the logistics community, ultimately resulting in sharpened agile combat support .

History

In late 1975, the Air Force established the Air Force Logistics Management Center at Gunter Air

Force Station, Ala. It was created in response to a need to centrally manage logistics study

improvement efforts and concentrate management emphasis on enhancing combat

effectiveness. AFLMC was renamed the Air Force Logistics Management Agency in 1993. Its

charter was, and still is, to solve logistics problems.

Since its inception, AFLMA has provided a continuing study, analysis, and development

capability to the Air Force logistics community. Tackling and solving the toughest Air Force

logistics problems remain its focus. From its beginnings, AFLMA has grown to be recognized for

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its excellence.

To maintain its recognized high standard of excellence and continue providing the highest

quality support to the Air Force logistics community, AFLMA has developed strong working

relationships with RAND and the Logistics Management Institute. Additionally, the AFLMA has

forged partnering and teaming efforts with a variety of other Air Force, public and private sector

organizations.

Point of Contact

Air Force Logistics Management Agency, Office of the Commander; 501 Ward Street, Maxwell

AFB Gunter Annex, AL 36114-3236; DSN 596-4511 or 334-416-4511; email:

AFLMA.CC@maxwell.af.mil

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