88 ABW Rolls Out New Strategic Plan and Objectives Published March 4, 2025 By Christopher J. Warner 88th Air Base Wing Public Affairs WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- The 88th Air Base Wing has released its new strategic plan and updated mission statement to provide enhanced focus and support to the 129-mission partners that make up Team Wright-Patt. Team Wright-Patt is comprised of many organizations, to include Air Force Materiel Command, Air Force Lifecycle Management Command, Air Force Research Laboratory, and National Air and Space Intelligence Center–all of whom have strategic and national defense missions supporting the warfighter mission. The 88 ABW serves as the installation’s host unit providing all support functions to the base’s employees and its tenant units. “The Airmen and civilians who make up the 88th Air Base Wing are some of the best wingmen I have had the honor to serve with,” said Col. Dustin Richards, 88th Air Base Wing and Installation commander. “As the wing commander, I owe it to them to provide an updated strategy that aligns with Department of Defense and Air Force priorities to keep being the best, and as we say in the 88th–providing Strength Through Support to allow our Team Wright-Patt partners to accomplish their national defense and warfighter missions.” 88th Air Base Wing strategic plan graphic (U.S. Air Force Graphic by David Clingerman) Photo Details / Download Hi-Res To provide better focus in this recent update, the 88 ABW command team held focus groups to better understand how the Airmen were accomplishing their complex missions to support the base and build stronger partnerships with the Miami Valley and Dayton communities. The biggest change that came out of the focus groups was a new mission statement: Develop the Force – Deliver Mission Support – Strengthen the Warfighter. “We wanted to better align our mission statement to reflect both our mission and leadership priorities–I believe this does that,” said Chief Master Sgt. Tessa Fontaine, 88th Air Base Wing and Installation command chief. “This new mission statement allows us as leaders, wingmen, and a wing to embody our 88 ABW Vision of continuing to be the Premier Air Base Wing that operates as one team–people driven, mission focused.” To accomplish this mission, the mission statement is further broken down into three mission priorities: Develop the Force (The People): Our mission is to enable capabilities, cultivate skills, and ensure readiness through comprehensive training, education, and professional development to empower personnel for mission success. Deliver Mission Support (The Promise): Our mission is to provide seamless and efficient support services to enhance operational effectiveness, ensuring timely logistics, maintenance, and critical functions for mission success. Strengthen the Warfighter (The Purpose): Our mission is to enhance the combat effectiveness of our warfighters by equipping our forces with the tools, systems, and capabilities they need to dominate the battlespace and achieve decisive victories in any operational environment. These new mission priorities align with the updated lines of efforts, helping the 88 ABW and its Airmen focus and optimize missions in support of DoD priorities: lethality, readiness, and warfighting. “As the Air Force continues to evolve and take on bigger and more complex national security and warfighter missions, the 88 ABW has to keep up and ensure we are supporting Team Wright-Patt with the best possible support,” said Col. Travis Pond, 88th Air Base Wing and Installation deputy commander. “We can’t do our mission without the great men and women of the 88th, we owe it to them to keep our strategy up to date.” To further support the updated strategic plan, the 88 ABW command team, group command teams, and focus groups defined the new lines of efforts to operationalize the mission statement. They are as follows: LOE 1: Ready and Resilient Force – Attract, develop, and retain a total force that is trained, ready, and fit to accomplish the mission at home and abroad. LOE 2: Ready and Resilient Installation – Optimize resources to establish a state-of-the-art multi-domain environment that is functional, safe, and secure for mission demands. LOE 3: Mission and Community Partnerships – Forge strategic relationships across team Wright-Patt and regional partners to enhance collaboration, investment, and recruitment driving mutual benefits and understanding. LOE 4: Mission Command Environment – Executing commander’s intent through a decentralized decision-making environment featuring critical thinking, innovation, and Airmen and force empowerment. “These new lines of efforts tie into all of our current missions and support that we already do, but they focus in on how we are going to continue to support the ever-evolving national security and warfighter missions of Team Wright-Patt,” said Mr. John Faulkner, 88th Air Base Wing and Installation deputy director. “Our mission partners are supporting some of the most important missions in the Air Force and DoD, its an honor to be able to support these missions along side the Airmen of the 88th.” Wright-Patterson AFB is Ohio’s largest single-site employer with over 38,000 Airmen, Guardians, civilians, and contractors. Team Wright-Patt, with 129-mission partners, has a diverse mission portfolio ranging from acquisition, aerospace research and development, aviation program offices, communications, cyber security, engineering, environmental, intelligence, law enforcement, and space force operations and many more support functions. The 88th Air Base Wing is comprised of approximately 5,500 uniformed and civilian Airmen in the Wing headquarters, three groups, 13 squadrons, and numerous other directorates and organizations that all directly support Team Wright-Patt. To see the full strategic plan one page graphic and more content, visit https://www.wpafb.af.mil/Units/88th-ABW/Strategic-Plan/.