 |
| Units |
|
 |
Team Eglin
Eglin leads the way for Air Force and Materiel Command in installation excellence. The Air Armament Center, in partnership with its associate units, is the heart of the team that covers the complete weapon-system life-cycle from concept through development, acquisition, experimental testing, procurement, operational testing and final employment in combat. This synergy is called, “Team Eglin.”
|
|
|
| |
The Air Armament Center, headquartered here, is one of three product centers in the Air Force Materiel Command. Serving as the focal point for all Air Force armament, the center is responsible for the development, acquisition, testing, and deployment of all air-delivered weapons. AAC applies advanced technology, engineering and programming efficiencies across the entire superior combat capability to the war fighter. The center plans, directs and conducts test and evaluation of U.S. and allied air armament, navigation and guidance systems, and command and control systems and supports the largest single base mobility commitment in the Air Force.
|
|
| |
| |
The 33rd Fighter Wing is a joint graduate flying and maintenance training wing for the F-35A, B, and C, organized under Air Education and Training Command's 19th Air Force. It is an associate unit at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., an Air Force Materiel Command base.
Visit the website |
|
| |
| |
The 53rd Wing is headquartered at Eglin and serves as the Air Force's focal point for operational test and evaluation of armament and avionics, aircrew training devices, chemical defense, aerial reconnaissance improvements, electronic warfare systems, and is responsible for the QF-4 and subscale drone programs. The wing tests every fighter, bomber, unmanned aerial vehicle, and weapon system in the Air Force inventory.
Visit the website |
|
| |
| |
The Air Force Research Laboratory Munitions Directorate develops, demonstrates and transitions science and technology for air-launched munitions for defeating ground fixed, mobile/relocatable, air and space targets to assure pre-eminence of U.S. air and space forces. The directorate conducts basic research, exploratory development, and advanced development and demonstrations. It also participates in programs focused on technology transfer, dual-use technology and small business development. The directorate is dedicated to providing the Air Force with a strong revolutionary and evolutionary technology base upon which future air-delivered munitions can be developed to neutralize potential threats to the United States.
|
|
| |
| |
 Auxiliary Field Six is the site of Camp James E. Rudder and the home of the Army’s 6th Ranger Training Battalion. The 6th RTB conducts the final phase of the U.S. Army Ranger Course. The entire course is 61 days in length and is divided into three phases. Each phase is conducted at different geographical and environmental locations. Its mission at Eglin is to expose Ranger students to a fast-paced, 18 day field training exercise.
Read the full fact sheet |
|
| |
| |
The Joint Deployable Analysis Team is a subordinate division of the Deputy Director, Command, Control, Communications, and Computers, Joint Staff J8. Transitioned from U.S. Joint Forces Command's Joint Fires Integration and Interoperability Team in June 2001, JDAT conducts field analysis of C2 information systems and procedures producing decision-quality data to improve Joint C2 integration and interoperability.
Visit the website |
|
| |
| |
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency research and Development Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction, Weapons and Capabilities Division was relocated to Eglin AFB as part of the Base Realignment and Closure congressional mandate of 2005. The Weapons and Capabilities Division researches, develops and demonstrates innovative technologies and capabilities to actively counter the full spectrum of Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and High-yield Explosive threats. DTRA CXW strives to provide intellectual and technical leadership that delivers capabilities for defeating current and future adversary WMD facilities and systems. As part of its pledge to make the world safer, DTRA partners with research and development elements of all services to bring real solutions for combating Weapons of Mass Destruction to the war fighter.
Visit the website |
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
The mission of the 96th Air Base Wing consists of supporting the Air Armament Center and associate units with traditional military services as well as all the services of a small city, to include civil engineering, personnel, logistics, communications, computer, medical, security, and all other host services. Critical to the success of Eglin's mission, the 96th Air Base Wing provides a myriad of base operating support functions.
|
|
| |
| |
The 46th Test Wing is the test and evaluation center for Air Force air-delivered weapons, navigation and guidance systems, Command and Control (C2) systems, and Air Force Special Operations Command systems. The Eglin Gulf Test Range provides approximately 130,000 square miles of over water airspace.
Visit the website. |
|
| |
| |
The mission of the Armament Systems Directorate is to equip warfighters with strike weapons to fight and win decisively. The wing designs, develops, produces, fields, and sustains a family of air-to-ground munitions, enhancing warfighter capabilities (both U.S. and allies) in defeating a spectrum of enemy targets.
|
|
| |
| |
 The 919th Special Operations Wing, located about five miles south of Crestview and 20 miles from Eglin main at Duke Field, is the only special operations wing in the Air Force Reserve Command. In wartime or a contingency, the 919th SOW reports to Air Force Special Operations Command at Hurlburt Field, Fla., its gaining major command.
|
|
| |
| |
 The mission of the 20th Space Control Squadron is to detect, track, identify, and report near earth and deep space objects in earth’s orbit, and provide space object identification data in support of United States Strategic Command’s space control mission. The men and women of the 20th SPCS operate and maintain the AN/FPS-85 radar, the Air Force’s only phased-array radar dedicated to tracking earth-orbiting objects.
Read the full fact sheet |
|
| |
| |
In the summer of 1977, the Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center stood up Detachment 2 at Eglin to meet the growing demand to provide realistic operational testing for new and modified weapon systems. Since then, Detachment 2 has partnered with the warfighter and the developmental test community to provide the most thorough and rigorous operational test programs found anywhere in the world.
|
|
| |
| |
Naval School Explosive Ordnance Disposal (NAVSCOLEOD) is a Navy-managed command, jointly staffed by Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps personnel. NAVSCOLEOD had its official ribbon cutting on the new consolidated training facility in April 1999.
|
|
| |
| |
 The 728th Air Control Squadron is assigned to the 552nd Air Control Wing, Tinker AFB, Okla. The 728th's mission is focused around providing air control (radar) services for combat air operations. The 728th provides a mobile, combat-rated, senior radar element of the Theater Air Control System for worldwide contingencies. Fact sheet |
|
| |
| |
The 7th Special Force Group is one of five active Special Forces Groups providing specialized support to the combatant commanders.
Special Forces units perform seven doctrinal missions: Unconventional Warfare, Foreign Internal Defense, Special Reconnaissance, Direct Action, Combating Terrorism, Counter-proliferation, and Information Operations. These missions make Special Forces unique in the U.S. military, because they are employed throughout the three stages of the operational continuum: peacetime, conflict and war.
Visit the website.
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Air Armament Center 
More Stories