AIR FORCE CIVIL ENGINEER SUPPORT AGENCY
Posted 3/17/2011
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The Air Force Civil Engineer Support Agency, with headquarters at Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla., is a field operating agency that reports to the Office of the Civil Engineer, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C.
Mission
AFCESA provides professional readiness, energy, and operations support, tools and practices to maximize Air Force engineering agile combat support worldwide. The staff comprises technical and professional experts in a variety of areas including engineering, emergency management, training, pavement analysis, fire protection, explosive ordnance disposal, aircraft arresting systems, and energy management.
Personnel
The staff is made up of more than 400 military personnel, civilians, and contractors. These professionals provide expertise in three core competencies: readiness, operations, and energy.
Organization
Agency functions are organized under six divisions: Readiness Support, Operations and Programs Support, the Air Force Facility Energy Center, Contract Support, Field Support, and Mission Support. A geographically separated unit is at Travis AFB, Calif.
The Readiness Support Division is responsible for expeditionary engineering, explosive ordnance disposal, fire emergency services, and emergency management. AFCESA supports all major commands to ensure that Air Force civil engineers are organized, trained, and equipped so they can deploy rapidly and efficiently during times of crisis. The expeditionary engineering experts help manage the Prime BEEF and RED HORSE contingency programs and collect and validate civil engineering lessons learned. The EOD staff determines manpower, training, and equipment requirements, and interfaces with major commands and numbered air forces to develop operational guidance for the career field. AFCESA also develops policy and guidance for Air Force Fire Emergency Services; administers the DOD Fire and Emergency Services Certification System; develops training courses; and procures and distributes fire equipment worldwide. Emergency management experts from the engineer, medical, biomedical, security forces, and logistics communities provide reach-back capability for installations and command staffs.
The Operations and Programs Support Division develops and applies best management practices, mission-oriented training systems, facility/infrastructure standards, expert engineering guidance and consultation, and airfield pavement evaluations to improve base civil engineer capabilities. Its members provide expert technical guidance and consultation to AFCESA customers worldwide in civil engineering operations areas to help base civil engineers accomplish their mission better, faster and more cost effectively. AFCESA's career field managers work closely with Air Education and Training Command to ensure civil engineer courses offered in Air Force technical schools prepare our engineers for tomorrow's challenges. Subject matter experts work with industry, federal, and DOD experts to establish standards for life-cycle planning, design, construction, operation, maintenance, repair, and revitalization of infrastructure and facility systems. The Airfield Pavement Evaluation Team travels the globe, evaluating the strength, performance, and condition of permanent and contingency airfields to ensure that flight operations can be conducted.
The Air Force Facility Energy Center is made up of engineers, attorneys, and a support staff who works together with Air Force customers and partners to identify, evaluate, and help implement technologies and funding strategies to enable the Air Force to meet and surpass federal facility energy goals. AFFEC staff members focus on several key areas including energy and water conservation, renewable energy program development, utilities privatization, and utility rates management. The AFFEC manages Air Force facility energy data collection and analysis to identify conservation and economic savings opportunities and report progress toward facility energy goals. The center provides centralized program management for funding investments to achieve mandates using central funding from the Energy Conservation Investment Program and Air Force Energy Conservation Program. The AFFEC's third-party investment experts provide project review and analysis and overall program management of Renewable Energy Power Purchase Agreements, Energy Saving Performance Contracts, and Utility Energy Service Contracts. The Utilities Privatization Program Management Office is the execution agent for the Air Force program and prepares request for proposal technical content, certifies proposal economics, obtains Congressional approval, manages/allocates funding and assists installations with post-award contract management. The AFFEC's Utility Rates Management Team provides legal and engineering support for utility acquisition, negotiations and intervention. The center also supports facility energy training and awareness programs and publicizes facility energy activities across the Air Force.
The Contract Support Division manages long-term, multibillion dollar programs. One, called the Air Force Contract Augmentation Program, provides contingency support in the areas of design, construction, service contracts, logistics, and just-in-time commodity solutions. AFCAP is used by combatant and major commands, as well as other U.S. government agencies, to support a wide spectrum of response such as natural disaster recovery, humanitarian relief efforts, and rapid global force projection to meet urgent U. S. National Command Authority Objectives. The other program, called the Sustainment, Restoration, and Modernization Program, provides project execution support to bases as they maintain, update, and restore their horizontal infrastructure.
The Field Support Division provides hands-on support to base civil engineer units throughout the Air Force. Known widely as the Civil Engineer Maintenance, Inspection and Repair Team, or CEMIRT, its technicians provide repair support on power generation, electrical distribution and aircraft arresting systems. CEMIRT also provides technical support for heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems, as well as specialized services such as infrared scans of electrical distribution systems, and design and installation of utility monitoring and control systems.
The Mission Support Division enables and enhances AFCESA's mission through a full spectrum of mission support. It provides financial management; budget programming and execution; personnel and manpower expertise; and computer and communications support. This division executes more than one billion dollars of civil engineering support annually, including Air Staff-managed programs. The Agency Support branch translates AFCESA leadership's vision into implementable strategic plans to meet future Air Force and civil engineering goals and requirements. Mission Support's communications professionals use the AFCESA public web page, the Air Force Portal, online social media, and many publications such as the Air Force Civil Engineer magazine to distribute AFCESA news. The Civil Engineering Historian documents and preserves the history and heritage of the career field.
History
The Air Force Civil Engineer Support Agency traces its history back to 1966 with the formation of the Civil Engineering Construction Operations Group at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. Two years later, the new Civil Engineering Center incorporated CECOG's readiness and mobility functions with the pavements and other specialized teams.
In 1972, the Civil Engineering Center moved to Tyndall AFB, Fla., and became the Air Force Civil Engineering Center. In 1977, the Air Force combined the responsibilities of Engineering and Services to form the Air Force Engineering and Services Agency which was renamed. in 1978 as the Air Force Engineering and Services Center.
In the early 1990s, Services and the Civil Engineering Laboratory were split off from the organization while the Disaster Preparedness and Explosive Ordnance Disposal functions were welcomed into Civil Engineering. The organization became a field operating agency and the name was changed to Air Force Civil Engineering Support Agency on August 1, 1991, and later became the Air Force Civil Engineer Support Agency in 1994. In 2004, AFCESA added the Sustainment, Restoration and Modernization mission. The Air Force Facility Energy Center was established in 2007, emphasizing the importance of energy to the Air Force.
Point of Contact
AFCESA Reach-Back Center at 888-AFCESA-1 or email AFCESAReachBackCenter@tyndall.af.mil. AFCESA information can be found at www.afcesa.af.mil or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/hqafcesa.
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