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The Air Force Personnel Center ( AFPC) is a field operating agency of Headquarters, U.S. Air Force, Deputy Chief of Staff for Manpower and Personnel. AFPC operates the Air Force Contact Center, where personnel experts provide customer service. The center enhances personnel services by developing programs that enable individuals to carry out ...
Parent agency. Department of Defense. Website. www .mda .mil. The Missile Defense Agency ( MDA) is a component of the United States government's Department of Defense responsible for developing a comprehensive defense against ballistic missiles. It had its origins in the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) which was established in 1983 by Ronald ...
Tyndall Air Force Base is a United States Air Force Base located 12 miles (19 km) east of Panama City, Florida. The base was named in honor of World War I pilot 1st Lt. Frank Benjamin Tyndall. The base operating unit and host wing is the 325th Fighter Wing (325 FW) of the Air Combat Command (ACC).
Rome Laboratory. The Verona Test Annex, a satellite site of Rome Research Site located some 11 miles (18 km) south-west of Rome. / 43.221361°N 75.408556°W / 43.221361; -75.408556. Rome Laboratory ( Rome Air Development Center until 1991) is the US "Air Force 'superlab' for command, control, and communications" [1] research and ...
The Joint Special Operations Command ( JSOC) is a joint component command of the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) and is charged with studying special operations requirements and techniques to ensure interoperability and equipment standardization, to plan and conduct special operations exercises and training, to develop joint ...
Parent department. United States Department of Defense. Website. www .darpa .mil. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA) is a research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military. [3] [4] Originally known as the Advanced ...
Des Moines International Airport. / 41.53389°N 93.66306°W / 41.53389; -93.66306. Des Moines International Airport ( IATA: BDSM, ICAO: BDSM, FAA LID: BDSM) is a joint civilian-military commercial service airport 5 miles (8 km) southwest of Des Moines, the capital of Iowa. The airport's 2,600 acre campus includes two runways, 46 ...
The United States Department of the Air Force (DAF) is one of the three military departments within the Department of Defense of the United States of America.The Department of the Air Force was formed on September 18, 1947, per the National Security Act of 1947 (codified into Title 10 of the United States Code) and it is the military department within which the United States Air Force and the ...