To provide expert advice and hands-on assistance to the acquisition workforce and leadership to instill credibility, excellence and innovation in the Air Force Acquisition and Sustainment process.

The champions for innovating and accelerating acquisition.

The ACE cannot fulfill their mission and vision (instill credibility or innovation into the minds of their customers) if it’s not leveraging the technology available to best communicate their products and services.


 

Patrick C. Burke is the Director and Senior Site Lead for AFLCMC at Hill AFB Utah where he is responsible for AFLCMC-led interests on Hill AFB and speaks on behalf of the AFLCMC Commander as a Center Staff team member. Here he also oversees the Acquisition Center of Excellence (ACE) Office, providing advice and hands-on assistance to the acquisition workforce assigned to Hill AFB.  Mr. Burke is also the Site Senior Functional (SSF) for the AFLCMC Program Manager workforce at Hill AFB, Utah.

Mr. Burke is a career acquisition professional having led the design, development, production, test and sustainment of weapon systems spanning air, space, and cyberspace domains. 

Mr. Burke is a retired Air Force Colonel who entered the Air Force in 1989 after graduating from the USAF Academy with a B.S. in General Engineering.  His assignments have included program management duties at three Air Force product centers (AFLCMC, SMC, and AFNWC), the National Reconnaissance Office, where he led ground system integration and test, systems engineering, and follow-on satellite vehicle programs, and the National Security Agency, where he completed a joint duty tour as Deputy PEO for Mission Management Programs.  He has also career broadened as a fully qualified aircraft maintenance officer supporting C-130 E/H operational airlift and training missions.  He has served on the Air Staff (Special Programs) as a member of the Air Force RED TEAM, which directly supported the SECAF for Acquisition and OSD Director of Special Programs, and has commanded a training squadron at AF Basic Military Training.  In his last active duty military assignment, Colonel Burke served as the Senior Materiel Leader for the 502 person, Munitions Sustainment Division, Hill Air Force Base, Utah, where he led a team of acquisition and logistics professionals supporting the $26B conventional munitions portfolio of programs to include support to 56+ foreign military sale partners.  Following active duty, Mr. Burke led the Weapon System Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications (NC3) Branch within the ICBM Systems Directorate.  Mr. Burke also served as a Civilian Materiel Leader for Combat Training Systems chartered to standardize and modernize the Air Force’s worldwide Combat Training Ranges.