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| Information > Factsheets > Air Force Personnel CenterAIR FORCE PERSONNEL CENTERDownloadFact Sheet Tools Printable Fact SheetThe Air Force Personnel Center, with headquarters at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas, is a field operating agency of Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Deputy Chief of Staff for for Manpower and Personnel. The center has responsibility for managing personnel programs and carrying out policies affecting Air Force active-duty and civilian members.**Mission**AFPC integrates and executes personnel operations to develop Air Force people and meet field commanders' requirements. AFPC is the Air and Space Expeditionary Force, or AEF, execution and standardization and evaluation agency for the Air Force.  AFPC supervises and directs the overall management and distribution of military officers, lieutenant colonel and below; enlisted, senior master sergeant and below; and civilian personnel at grades GS-15 (or equivalent) and below. AFPC also conducts military and civilian personnel operations to include overseeing performance evaluations, promotions, retirements, separations, awards, decorations, uniforms, education, personnel procurement, disability processing and the Air Force's voting program. It plans for contingencies, maintains active-duty personnel records and provides transition assistance and support to Air Force retirees. AFPC serves as the single manager for the military and civilian personnel data systems covering active-duty, Reserve, Guard and civilian personnel under the Total Force Management Concept.**Personnel**About 2,200 military, civilian and contractor personnel work at the center implementing personnel programs affecting nearly 336,000 active-duty members and more than 143,000 civilian employees through a worldwide network of personnel flights. The center manages some of the many personnel computer systems affecting an additional 106,000 Air National Guardsman and  191,000 participating, non-participating and "grey-area retiree" reservists.**Organization**The Air Force Personnel Center comprises seven directorates, each managing several key programs.The**Directorate of Air and Space Expeditionary Force Operations** is responsible for execution of the AEF. It aids expeditionary Air Force operations by assisting in the planning and scheduling of AEF assets, identifying and refining training requirements, guiding deployment and redeployment planning, monitoring readiness, and providing continuity across the AEF spectrum. The directorate serves as the Air Force standardization and evaluation for AEF operations by overseeing unit type code posturing and coding as well as monitoring timeliness of the sourcing verification, names-in-system and reclama processes. The **Directorate of Assignments** is responsible for managing the assignments and facilitating the professional development of all enlisted members and officers below the grade of colonel, with the exception of chief master sergeants and members of the staff judge advocate. In addition, the directorate handles humanitarian and exceptional family member assignments, joint duty, developmental academic, medical and military education for officers, and officer special duty assignments.The **Directorate of Civilian Force Integration** formulates, coordinates and executes the force-shaping and force development needs for about 138,000 employees represented by 18 career field teams supporting 21 separate career fields. The directorate recruits and trains civilian interns to provide a cadre of future Air Force civilian leaders.  It also identifies, develops and places high performing civilians in key managerial and executive positions throughout the Air Force; and manages training funds for 21 career fields to support leadership and management training, intern training and tuition assistance to qualified Air Force employees. The directorate is made up of four separate career field management divisions, the program management and support division and the force development support division. Each plays an integral role in the directorate's force-shaping and force development initiatives in the integration of the civilian workforce. The directorate provides civilian personnel management advisory service, recruitment and placement support, and leadership and management training and education for civilian employees, commanders, supervisors, managers and applicants for Air Force jobs. Within the director's office exists the newly formed bench team that serves as a mobile staffing unit within the directorate to deliver recruitment and placement services to the directorate's Air Force customers.The **Directorate of Force Operations** develops guidance, procedures and training for total force (active duty, Guard, Reserve and civilian) accountability in direct support of Air Force programs and Department of Defense reporting processes. The directorate provides accountability oversight to deployed forces. The directorate operates the Personnel Readiness Center, providing for total force mobilization during natural disasters, contingencies and situations warranting emergency actions. It is the Air Force focal point for Missing in Action/Prisoner of War programs, members reported missing, captured, or imprisoned, and members placed in an absent without leave/deserter status. The directorate is also the Air Force OPR for worldwide casualty reporting, notification of family members, and assistance to families and field commanders on benefits and entitlements.The **Directorate of Personnel Data Systems** is the information technology focal point for AFPC and provides life-cycle management and sustainment of personnel data and records management systems for active military, Guard and Reserve. Directorate team members operate and maintain the military personnel data system, Defense Civilian Personnel Data System and Air Force civilian unique applications. The directorate also develops and implements IT architectures supporting personnel operations and the Personnel Services Delivery/Personnel Services Transformation initiatives; introduces, assesses and facilitates implementation of new technologies to improve business processes; and develops, coordinates, and implements strategies to intelligently implement proven best practices in communications and information management.  The staff operates and maintains a portfolio of more than $80 million in IT systems comprising nearly 700 servers supporting military and civilian personnel transactions for the total force. The directorate provides certification and accreditation for all Air Force personnel data systems, while providing network operations and security for worldwide access to Air Force personnel data systems.The **Directorate of Personnel Services** develops guidance, procedures and training for active-duty, Guard, Reserve and civilian personnel directly supporting Air Force programs. It provides timely and accurate implementation for more than 200 personnel programs. These programs include recruitment, accessions, retraining, evaluations, education and training, promotions, awards and decorations, duty status, reenlistments, separations, retirements, entitlements and benefits, retiree services and the Air Force Disability Program. It exercises centralized authority for the planning and execution of all military and civilian personnel management programs that support Personnel Service Delivery  initiatives. It evaluates, initiates, or revises plans and programs to ensure adherence to approved Air Force and Department of Defense policies and standards. The directorate acts as the personnel center's "face to the customer" via the Air Force Contact Center. It directs operations and training for military personnel flights and commander's support staffs. The directorate is responsible for planning, coordinating, administering and disseminating Air Force policy on matters affecting military personnel operations at the major command level and below. It administers defense and Air Force policy on identification card benefits and privileges, oversees three records and management programs. The directorate also is responsible for operational support and training of career assistance advisors, and directs and guides the family support center program.The **Director of Staff** manages the infrastructure resources of the center: budget and financial, manpower, civilian training and personnel programs security, safety, facilities and civil engineering. The directorate is also responsible for answering Air Force personnel related inquiries from Executive, Congressional, DOD, and Air Force senior leaders to the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force Legislative Liaison and serves as Inspector General for the agency.In addition, AFPC is the home of the **U.S. Air Force Selection Board Secretariat** which plans, conducts and keeps records on about 50 selection and evaluation boards per year. These include officer promotion boards for major through major general, senior master sergeant and chief master sergeant enlisted evaluation boards, officer special selection and enlisted supplemental evaluation boards, and any other boards directed by the secretary of the Air Force to include selective early retirement, reduction-in-force and force shaping.  Board members evaluate more than 40,000 records on an annual basis to determine which officers and senior noncommissioned officers are best qualified to become the Air Force's next generation of leadership. The secretariat maintains more than 107,000 selection records to support these boards and Airmen throughout the Air Force.**History**The Air Force Military Personnel Center was established April 1, 1963, as a Headquarters Air Force field extension of the Deputy Chief of Staff, Personnel, and in 1971 became a separate operating agency. Its name was changed to the Air Force Manpower and Personnel Center in 1978, when the Air Force integrated the manpower and personnel functions at U.S. Air Force Headquarters level.In October 1985, the manpower function was realigned and separated from personnel. This resulted in the center being renamed the Air Force Military Personnel Center, Jan. 1, 1986. The center became a field operating agency Feb. 5, 1991.The Air Force Personnel Center was formed during a consolidation of the Air Force Military Personnel Center and Air Force Civilian Personnel Management Center, Oct. 1, 1995.The former Civilian Personnel Operations was established on July 1, 1976 and was a direct reporting unit of the Air Force Directorate of Civilian Personnel until Feb. 5, 1991 when it was renamed the Air Force Civilian Personnel Management Center and became a field operating agency. It became a directorate within the Air Force Personnel Center Oct. 1, 1995.On Aug. 29, 2006, the Air and Space Expeditionary Force Center, Langley AFB, Va., became a direct reporting unit of the Personnel Center.  It became the center's newest directorate, Oct. 1, 2007.**Point of Contact**Air Force Personnel Center, Public Affairs Office; 550 C Street West Suite 43; Randolph AFB, TX 78150-4745; DSN 665-2585 or 210-565-2585; e-mail: [email protected]December 2007Inside AF.milSearch			Advanced SearchOrganizations***The U.S. Air Force***Air Combat CommandAir Education and Training CommandAir Force Civil Engineer Support AgencyAir Force Frequency Management AgencyAir Force Inspection AgencyAir Force ISR AgencyAir Force Logistics Management AgencyAir Force Manpower AgencyAir Force Materiel CommandAir Force Office of Special InvestigationsAir Force Operational Test and Evaluation CenterAir Force Personnel CenterAir Force Petroleum AgencyAir Force Real Property AgencyAir Force Recruiting ServiceAir Force Research LaboratoryAir Force Reserve CommandAir Force Safety CenterAir Force Services AgencyAir Force Space CommandAir Force Special Operations CommandAir Force Weather AgencyAir Mobility CommandAir National GuardAir UniversityPacific Air ForcesUnited States Air Force AcademyUnited States Air Forces in EuropeThe Official Website of the United States Air ForceSite Map                         Contact Us                        Questions                        Security and Privacy notice                        FOIA Disclaimer   |
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