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  • BRIGADIER GENERAL ALICE WARD TREVINO

    International business association honors AFICA commander

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas – The Association of Advance Collegiate Schools of Business recognized Air Force Installation Contracting Agency Commander Brig. Gen. Alice Trevino as one of its 2019 Influential Leaders Feb. 5.“AACSB is honored to recognize Brig. Gen. Alice Trevino and congratulates the Naval Postgraduate School for its role
  • Carla Perkins proudly wears her Change Agent pin. Perkins is a clearance reviewer and business advisor for the 772nd Enterprise Sourcing Squadron Defense Environment Restoration Program. With her extensive background and experience in acquisition procedural guidance, she recently identified acceptable solutions to resolve issues that came up and made corrections to acquisition requirement packages in support of two critical multi-million dollar acquisitions in support of the Air Force Civil Engineer Center. (Courtesy photo)

    AFICA Change Agents key to future success

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas -- An organization’s ability to change and adapt often means the difference between success and failure. For that reason, the Air Force Installation Contracting Agency not only embraces change, it lauds it!“Without change, there can be no breakthroughs and, without breakthroughs, there can be no future,” is a
  • Lt. Col. Jorge Manresa, a contracting officer with the Air Force Installation Contracting Agency’s 338th Specialized Contracting Squadron, and AFWERX-Austin Liaison, conducts a briefing for the contracting team at the beginning of their effort to award 50 contracts in 50 hours. The team spent a week from Nov. 5-9 working on the project and ended up awarding more than 100 contracts in 40 hours, significantly reducing the amount of time it takes to award contracts to businesses. (Courtesy photo)

    Air Force moves at the speed of startups with 100 contract awards in 40 hours

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Contracting officials and innovators from across the Air Force looking to speed up the acquisition process recently awarded more than 100 contracts in 40 hours to small businesses.Meeting at the AFWERX Innovation Hub in Austin, Texas, they streamlined contracting processes and developed new ways of doing
  • AFICA holds Category Management briefing

    AFICA efforts show promise for increased readiness, lethality

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio – A diverse group of senior leaders from all Department of Defense agencies met here August 22 to learn more about progress the Air Force Installation Contracting Agency has made in reducing total cost of common items.  The initiative, known as Category Management, takes a disciplined data-driven strategic cost management
  • Brig. Gen. Alice W. Treviño, Air Force Installation Contracting Agency commander, delivers opening remarks at AFICA’s third annual Enterprise Sourcing Summit held at the Air Force Institute of Technology at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base July 17-18, 2018.

    AFICA hosts 2018 Enterprise Sourcing Summit, aims to save $2B

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Air Force Installation Contracting Agency welcomed over 100 category management professionals from around the world to share best practices, learn about new enterprise sourcing tools and hear from senior leaders during its third annual Enterprise Sourcing Summit held at the Air Force Institute of
  • Col. Thomas Sherman, 88th Air Base Wing and Installation commander, talks to Maj. Gen. Bradley D. Spacy, Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center commander, about construction at the new Gate 26A site during the general's visit to the installation July 12, 2018.

    AFIMSC commander visits Wright-Patt for construction update

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Maj. Gen. Bradley D. Spacy, Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center commander visited Wright-Patterson Air Force Base July 12 to get updates on several ongoing construction projects and meet Airmen. During the tour, Spacy observed ongoing construction at the Gate 26A relocation site. The $10.5
  • Brig. Gen. Alice W. Treviño accepts the Air Force Installation Contracting Agency flag from Maj. Gen. Bradley D. Spacy, Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center commander, as she becomes the AFICA commander May 23, 2018, during a change of command ceremony in the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Club.

    AFICA Change of Command

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Brig. Gen. Alice W. Trevino officially took command of the Air Force Installation Contracting Agency here in a change of command ceremony at the Wright-Patterson Club May 23.Trevino replaces Brig. Gen. Cameron Holt, who is leaving to become Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition,
  • AFICA welcomes new executive director

    2017 stellar year for AFICA and their Mission Partners - Over $1 billion reported in savings; new executive director appointed

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Air Force Installation Contracting Agency, known as AFICA, closed out 2017 on a high note by reporting over $1 billion in verified budgetary savings and cost avoidance as documented in the agency’s Cost Savings Tracker and by welcoming a new executive director – Renee M. Richardson, a member of the Senior
  • Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski, commander of Air Force Materiel Command, provides remarks at the Air Force Installation Contracting Agency’s 2017 Enterprise Sourcing Summit June 8 at the Air Force Institute of Technology’s Bane Auditorium. The AFMC commander praised the ongoing effort to provide cost-effective and agile acquisition support to the Air Force. Attendees included representatives from the operational contracting, small business, civil engineering, and acquisition communities, among others. (U.S. Air Force photo/Michelle Gigante)

    AFICA hosts 2017 Enterprise Sourcing Summit at AFIT

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Over 100 professionals from organizations around the world gathered for the Air Force Installation Contracting Agency’s 2017 Enterprise Sourcing Summit June 7-8 at the Air Force Institute of Technology’s Bane Auditorium. Attendees included representatives from the operational contracting, small business,
  • Brig. Gen. Cameron Holt, commander of the Air Force Installation Contracting Agency, visits a project team while they analyze Air Force spend using the Air Force Business Intelligence Tool and walk-through the Strategic Sourcing wheel. From left to right: Roger Westermeyer, Damon Roberts, Kristina Vineyard, Master Sgt. Michael Rankin, Gary Koenig, Senior Airman Jessica Carlton, Staff Sgt. Estephon Ramirez, and Saundra Scriven. (U.S. Air Force photo/Jennica Semon)

    AFICA – ‘Not your Father’s Oldsmobile’ – Turning innovations into savings for the Air Force

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Air Force Installation Contracting Agency is not your father’s Oldsmobile when it comes to implementing innovative techniques to improve the business of operational acquisition and contracting in peace and in war.  Officially stood up Oct. 1, 2013, AFICA has aggressively utilized state-of-the-art
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