• Bomber Armament Tester
• CAPRE Secure Memory Loader Verifier/Viper

Mission:
Deliver and Sustain Affordable War-winning Electronic Warfare and Avionics Capability On-Time

Vision:
Be The World’s Preeminent Provider of Electronic Warfare and Avionics Capability

Programs of Interest:

• Enhanced GPS/INS-M Code
• Resilient EGI
• Raging Crow

Mission:
Acquire and Support Human Systems to Enhance Warfighter Performance, Protection, and Survivability

Vision:
Save and Improve Airmen’s Lives

Programs of Interest:

• Next-Gen Ejection Seat
• Female Aircrew
• OCP Transition
• Combat Ready Airman
  
   

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Lead the Development, Acquisition and Sustainment Necessary to Meet Every MAJCOM’s Simulation and Training Requirement

Vision:
Providing the World’s Best Training Systems to the Combat Forces of Today and Tomorrow

Programs of Interest:

• Common Architecture Requirements & Standards
• Distributed Mission Training

Mission:
Provide support equipment & vehicles to combatants, ensure they work, and give taxpayers their money's worth...responsive to the User, responsible to the Nation

Vision:
World-class people providing support equipment and vehicles vital to our Nation’s ability to fly, fight, and win

Programs of Interest:

• Joint Light Tactical Vehicle
• Pallets and Nets 

Colonel Lea T. Kirkwood is the Program Executive Officer and Director for the Agile Combat Support Directorate at the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. She leads more than 1,600 military and civilian personnel responsible for executing $5.1 billion annually in Air Force funds. The directorate’s six divisions, located primarily at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH, Robins Air Force Base, GA, and Heath, OH, provide materiel solutions and acquisition life cycle management for simulators, support equipment and vehicles, electronic warfare and avionics, human systems, automatic test systems, and metrology and calibration to meet Air Force operational needs.   

Colonel Kirkwood was commissioned through the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps in May 1992. As an acquisition program manager, she has managed space, command and control, mission planning, automatic test systems, and early warning and control programs for United States and NATO operations, as well as foreign military sales.  She has also led international relations at the Pentagon, in Hungary, and in the United Kingdom.  Colonel Kirkwood commanded the 422d Air Base Squadron, Royal Air Force Croughton, United Kingdom, and served as Deputy Commander, 78th Mission Support Group, Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, Deputy Commander, 451st Expeditionary Mission Support Group, Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan, and Vice Commander, 72d Air Base Wing, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.  She has deployed in support of Operations ENDURING FREEDOM and FREEDOM’S SENTINEL, and for the NATO-led RESOLUTE SUPPORT Mission.






 

MISSION:
Acquire and Support War Enabling Capabilities --  Professionally and Affordably

273 Programs

• 22 Acquisition Master List
• 10 Developmental (non-AC AT )
• 4 Middle Tier Acquisition
• 156 Sustainment
• 60 Foreign Military Sales
• 21 Support
• 1,600 people
• $7.25B active year funds (USAF & FMS)

Agile Combat Support (ACS) Directorate is one of 10 Program Executive Officer directorates within the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center. Headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, ACS has other major units at Robins AFB, Ga., and Heath, Ohio.

ACS consists of more than 1,600 personnel and over 600 programs that span Wright Patterson AFB as well as 10 additional geographically separated units.