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        Policy UpdatesNewsroomReoptimizationBIOGRAPHIESAF Senior Leaders      Members of AFIMSC's Budget Office Installation Support Team review the Budget Execution Analysis Strategy Tool (BEAST), to monitor the status of must pay and unfunded requirements at installations across the Air Force. (U.S. Air Force photo by Ed Shannon)AFIMSC analysts monitor budget execution
                        
                        
                        Members of Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center's Budget Office Installation Support Team review the Budget Execution Analysis Strategy Tool to monitor the status of must pay and unfunded requirements at installations across the Air Force. (U.S. Air Force photo by Ed Shannon)
                
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        Installations continue to execute more funding earlier in the fiscal year even as budgets increased in the Air Force's Installation and Mission Support portfolio, managed by AFIMSC. This approach alleviates unnecessary stress to the acquisition pipeline and makes installations more attractive candidates for potential higher-headquarters funding. (U.S. Air Force graphic by Briann Poblete)Fiscal 2019 budget execution
                        
                        
                        Installations continued to execute more funding earlier in the fiscal year even as budgets increased in the Air Force's Installation and Mission Support portfolio, managed by the Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center. This approach alleviates unnecessary stress to the acquisition pipeline and makes installations more attractive candidates for potential higher-headquarters funding. (U.S. Air Force graphic by Briann Poblete)
                
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AFIMSC navigates storms, disasters to exceed 84% budget executionPublished Aug. 2, 2019
                    
                    By Ed Shannon
                    
                    
                    Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center Public Affairs
            **JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas (AFNS) --**A flexible strategy combined with strong partnerships that focus on taking care of Airmen. That’s what helped the Air Force exceed a goal to execute more than 83% of its $7 billion installation and mission support portfolio by the July 31 deadline.
Managed by the Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center, the 84.4% execution marks the third consecutive year AFIMSC exceeded Air Force Materiel Command’s execution goal in the I&MS portfolio. It follows last year’s record-setting 84.8% execution rate, said Chris Underwood, AFIMSC’s Budget Office technical director for financial analysis.
Riding the wave of momentum from a successful close out the previous fiscal year, AFIMSC budget officials entered fiscal 2019 with a well-defined strategy and an on-time appropriation from Congress. However, initial plans changed quickly only days into the new fiscal year when Hurricane Michael ravaged Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida.
“No fiscal year better illustrates the innovation and flexibility behind centralized management of the Air Force’s I&MS portfolio than fiscal 2019,” Underwood said.
AFIMSC cash flowed recovery efforts at Tyndall AFB, the March 2019 flooding at Offutt AFB, Nebraska and the November 2018 earthquake at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, in addition to providing funding for border protection at Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona.
Leadership at the program management offices at Tyndall and Offutt AFBs witnessed the impacts of funding made available for recovery.
“AFIMSC’s resources team has been critical in making sure we had funding available for immediate response activities and safe lodging and workplaces to continue the mission,” said Brig. Gen. Patrice Melancon, Tyndall AFB PMO executive director in charge of the rebuild effort.
“With their support, we are making good progress,” she said about the recovery efforts. “The supplemental funding has been key to allow us to get the base on the road to recovery and prepare for the first F-35 to arrive in October 2023. Having funding available for design and to start construction of mission-critical facilities is key for us to make that deadline.”
A partnership between the base and AFIMSC also enhanced Offutt AFB’s recovery from the flood.
“The magnitude of our effort has been eased and supported by AFIMSC, and we are very grateful and appreciative for their support in providing funding to us,” said Lt. Col Chris Conover, Offutt AFB PMO director.
Other factors contributed to fiscal 2019 execution success, Underwood said.
Working with AFIMSC, installations executed between $300-400 million above straight line consistently every month by moving execution of a sizeable program to the first quarter of the fiscal year. Straight line represents the level of execution needed on average per day to achieve the goal.
Additionally, AFIMSC assumes risk by funding, up front, what installations must pay, such as utilities, base maintenance contracts and food services. This approach not only builds trust in AFIMSC, it also increases bandwidth in the execution process because installation contracting and civil engineering functions execute funding for must-pay bills only once instead of multiple times during the fiscal year, Underwood said.
“We executed an excellent cash flow management strategy to balance funding for all of the requirements across the portfolio,” he said. “While our strategy was huge in the way we were able to push dollars out, it’s the installations that put money on contracts and took care of our Airmen. We can’t thank installations enough for executing the dollars and resources we pushed to them as early as they could in the fiscal year.”
Centralized I&MS funding from Air Force through AFIMSC to installations began in 2015 when AFIMSC activated. Prior to that, each major command received funding from Air Force for distribution to its installations.
In a typical fiscal year, Congress mandates that no more than 20% of funding can be spent in August and September. Known as the 80/20 rule, the mandate establishes a requirement to execute 80% by July 31. Air Force Materiel Command, AFIMSC’s parent command, sets an 83% execution goal every year.AFWN 



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