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Show HILLTOP TIMES TIMES 3 September 17, 2009 Acquisition wings to become directorates with dear lines of authority ill add program executive officers, refine focus, avoid wing manpower designations Air Force News Service W ASHINGTON — Air Force officials will implement a new organizational construct for weapon systems acquisition that includes designating directorates, divisions and branches in place of some current wings, groups and squadrons. Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley and Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz announced the changes in a service-wide memo Sept. 3. The memo, signed by both leaders, makes clear that realigning organizations under a directorate/division/branch structure is driven by one of five goals from the Acquisition Improvement Plan the secretary and chief announced in May. The impact of realignment primarily will affect Air Force Materiel Command organizations. The targeted implementation date for AFMC is June 30, 2010. One Air Force Space Command organization, the Space and Missile Systems Center at Los Angeles Air Force Base, Calif., also is included in the wing-to-directorate realignment. The target implementation date there is Oct. 1, 2010. Gen. Donald Hoffman, AFMC commander, said this change will involve a total command-wide effort, but it will generate several benefits. The realignment is not a simple return to organizational designations AFMC officials once used before they adopted the wing structure, AFMC planners say. The goal that underlies the realignment is to establish clear lines of authority and accountability within acquisition organizations, according to the more members; groups, 400; and squadrons, 35. "Most of our acquisition units were not large secretary's and chief's memo. enough to maintain the appropriate wing, group and Along with changing from wings to directorsquadron designations," Hoffman said. "Combining ates, Air Force officials also will create several new units to meet the size thresholds would have been positions at the program executive officer level to major surgery and would have buried senior acquisidecrease PEO span of control. A greater number of tion leadership at the squadron level or below." PEOs is needed to oversee execution of major acquiAir Force Acquisition centers that will be restrucsition programs, AFMC planners say. New PEO posi- tured to directorates, divisions and branches are: tions will be created at the directorate level and will • Air Armament Center, Eglin Air Force Base, , be filled by both military and civilian people. Fla., excluding the 46th Test Wing Additionally, AFMC officials will institute matrix- • Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright Patterson management in acquisition organizations. Matrix AFB, Ohio management brings together, under a single leader, • Electronics Systems Center, Hanscorn AFB, people who report to different functional home ofMass. :: fices to complete a particular program or project. • Arnold Engineering and Development Center, "This restructure embraces the differences beArnold AFB, Tenn. tween the acquisition and operational missions in the • Air Force Security Assistance Center, Wright ~ Air Force," according to the memo. Patterson AFB, and While realignment primarily will affect the three • Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles product centers in AFMC and the one in AFSPC, all AFB, Calif. of AFMC's centers will see some changes. AFMC At the air logistics centers and the Air Force planners say the realignment is "manpower neuNuclear Weapons Center, the Aircraft (Aerospace) tral," meaning no net gain or loss of jobs will occur. Sustainment wings and Nuclear Systems Wing re- ^ spectively, will retain their designation but subordin AFMC and AFSPC planners don't have answers yet to every question that civilian and military mem- nate groups and squadrons will convert to divisions bers of the acquisition corps may have about poten- and branches. Some aircraft sustainment wings and combat sustainment wings will consolidate their tial personal impacts, but they said they will keep the information flowing as the change process plays missions and be renamed aerospace sustainment wings. out. The air logistics centers, which are large industriThe restructuring from wings to directorates al facilities responsible for maintenance and sustainalso follows an Air Force senior leader decision to standardize the size of wings, groups and squadrons ment of aircraft and other systems, are located at across the Air Force. Wings now must have 1,000 or Hill AFB, Robins AFB, Ga.; and Tinker AFB, Okla, >; Volunteers sought for Airmen's Bash three days of events REVEILLE T he End of Summer Airmen's Bash organization committee is seeking volunteers for the series of events set for all senior airmen, grades E-4 and below, and their families which will be spread over the course of three days, Sept. 30-Oct 2. Weekly meetings are in the 75th Force Support Squadron Confer- ence Room, Building 180, Room 210-212, on Thursdays at 9 a.m. Among the events will be an afternoon picnic on Sept. 30 at Centennial Park, a video game tournament in the Junior Enlisted Center on Oct. 1, and a block party in the parking lot near the baseball field close to the South Gate on Oct. 2. Volunteers are still being sought, particularly those that are not Airmen, E-4 and below, as the organizing committee would like the Airmen and their families to be free to enjoy the events. For more information or to volunteer, contact Master Sgt. 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