The Air Force Manpower Analysis Agency (AFMAA) is a Field Operating Agency of the United States Air Force (USAF). It was reactivated in 2015 after inactivation in 2012[1] at Joint Base San Antonio and was assigned directly to Hq, USAF. It provided USAF leaders at all levels with tools to identify manpower required to accomplish the USAF mission.[2]
Mission
The Air Force Manpower Analysis Agency (AFMAA) was originally established in 1975 as the Air Force Management Engineering Agency, a Separate Operating Agency of the USAF when USAF decided it needed an agency to provide technical guidance and central direction to its management engineering program.[2] Its mission throughout its existence was to provide USAF leaders assistance in identifying manpower requirements for the effective and efficient accomplishment of the Air Force mission.[3] In 1996, AFMA merged with the Air Force Quality Institute and became the Air Force Center for Quality and Management Innovation.[4] It received its current designation in 2003.
The agency, through its four major divisions and five subordinate manpower requirement squadrons, developed manpower requirements determination tools and manpower programming factors. Additionally, AFMA managed Air Force performance management and innovation programs, including awards programs such as the Air Force Chief of Staff Team Excellence Award and the Zuckert Award. AFMA executed the Air Force competitive sourcing program and conducted special studies. The agency also assisted combatant commanders in determining military essential requirements in support of warfighting scenarios, supported the manpower functional community, and was home to the Air Force Survey Office, which provided attitude and opinion survey tools such as the Air Force Climate Survey.[3] Starting in 1992, the agency took over the field management engineering teams that had been assigned to USAF's Major Commands[5] and reorganized them on a functional basis. In 1995 was redesignated a Field Operating Agency (FOA). Starting at the end of 2004, it reorganized, replacing its teams with numbered squadrons and flights. AFMA was realigned under the Air Force Personnel Center on 1 June 2012[1] and later reactivated as the Air Force Manpower Analysis Agency (AFMAA) on 1 June 2015.[6]
Lineage
Constituted as the Air Force Manpower Engineering Agency and activated on 1 November 1975
Redesignated the Air Force Center for Quality and Management Innovation when merged with the Air Force Center for Quality and Innovation, 19 December 1996
Redesignated Air Force Manpower and Innovation Agency on 1 September 1999
Redesignated Air Force Manpower Agency on 1 December 2003
Inactivated on 1 June 2012, resources aligned under the Air Force Personnel Center
Redesignated as Air Force Manpower Analysis Agency, and activated on 1 June 2015[6]
Air Force Manpower and Personnel Center, 1 June 1978[2]
HQ, United States Air Force, 1 March 1985 – 1 June 2012[2]
Stations
Washington, DC, 1 November 1975 – unknown
Randolph AFB, (later Joint Base San Antonio), Texas, unknown −1 June 2012
Subordinate Units
Squadrons
The Air Force Manpower Requirements Determination Squadron, co-located at Headquarters AFMA at Randolph AFB, Texas, was activated in November 2001 and was redesignated as the 1st Manpower Requirements Squadron in December 2004. The squadrons were inactivated.
1st Manpower Requirements Squadron (Air Force Manpower Requirements Determination Squadron November 2001 to December 2004), Joint Base San Antonio, Texas
2d Manpower Requirements Squadron, Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va.
