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.”
Air Armament Center


The Air Armament Center, headquartered here, is one of four 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. AAC accomplishes its mission through five components - the 46th Test Wing, 96th Air Base Wing, 328th Armament Systems Wing, 308th Armament Systems Wing and 329th Armament Systems Group.
AAC is the focal point for the acquisition of the world’s most superior armament products. The center engages in scientific research, system management, production, operational performance, (^top of section)
business management, requirements definition, customer and engineering support, technology planning, materiel identification, and field support activities.
Some of the major programs managed by the center include the Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile, High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile, HARM Targeting System, Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile, Joint Direct Attack Munition, Miniature Air Launched Decoy, Sensor Fuzed Weapon and the Small Diameter Bomb.

The center accomplishes its sustainment mission through offices located at two Air Logistics Centers, including Air Superiority Missiles and Weapons at Robins Air Force Base, Warner Robins, Ga., and Air-to-Surface Munitions at Hill Air Force Base, Ogden, Utah.
96th Air Base Wing

Vision Statement:
Superior Support – Always
Mission Statement:
Train and Deploy Combat Ready Forces and Provide Superior Support to Team Eglin in the Defense of the United States of America
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. Its people are responsible for material resources, mobility requirements, and meeting the needs of Eglin personnel. The 96th Air Base Wing is comprised of more than 5,000 professionals in five organizations.
The 96th Civil Engineer Group provides engineering forces to support global aerospace forces in peace and war. It operates, maintains, and protects the physical plant, infrastructure, facilities and systems, housing, and the environment, and maintains the largest base in the U.S. Air Force – 11.6 million square feet of physical plant spanning 724 square miles and 3,450 facilities.
The 96th Communications Group provides fixed and rapid, worldwide deployable communications and information services supporting warfighters at the Air Force’s largest military installation. It manages a $3.3 million budget in support of a 20,000 person military community comprised of the Air Armament Center, 53rd Wing, 33rd Fighter Wing, 46th Test Wing, 96th Air Base Wing, 919th Special Operations Wing and numerous associate units.
The 96th Mission Support Group provides Aerospace Expeditionary Force readiness, fuels, supply, and transportation, ground combat training, security, personnel, education, family services, lodging, food service, recreation and logistics planning and deployment support to (^top of section)


over 20,000 Team Eglin military and civilian personnel and 43,000 retirees. It deploys combat ready forces in support of worldwide contingency operations.
The 96th Medical Group ensures optimal health for all of Team Eglin. It manages and provides comprehensive, cost-effective health care for 83,000 eligible beneficiaries. It operates a community-based teaching hospital with graduate level programs in family practice, general dentistry and other medical disciplines. It deploys and expands to provide responsive health services in any contingency.
The Military Equal Opportunity office advises assigned host, associate and geographically separated organizations on issues of Equal Opportunity and Treatment or human relations. Services include clarifying discrimination concerns providing education, training, and counseling for military, their family members, and retired military personnel. It acts as a mediator, consultant, and fact-finder for problems involving discrimination. It enhances mission effectiveness and readiness by conducting wing and Unit Climate Assessments for commanders, assessing the organization’s human relations climate while also creating and administering on- and off-base proactive programs.
The Eglin Chapel program provides opportunities for the free exercise of religion in the Air Force community through worship, rites, religious education, visitation, pastoral counseling, and responsiveness to individual religious needs. The base chapel supports several major base-wide events including, Operation Care, a program to assist the financially needy, the Christmas tree lighting ceremony, the Martin Luther King, Jr. commemorative program, the Singles Ministry, and the National Prayer Breakfast.
With the mission of the 96th ABW, the heritage of the 96th Bombardment Group lives on through the people of Eglin, thus preserving the lineage and honors of a great organization.
46th Test Wing

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. The land range covers 724 square miles and contains 51 specific test and training areas, including an approved depleted uranium test range and the only qualified air-to-ground supersonic range east of the Mississippi River. The Armament/C2 Systems Test Environment consists of all the precision instrumentation for data collection, microwave systems for data transfer, and radio and land communication networks to support test and evaluation. The Multi-spectral Test and Training Environment, used in conjunction with the ASTE, provides a real-world multi-spectral (electro-optical, infrared, millimeter wave, radio frequency) test environment for munitions and weapons systems and C2 developmental testing and evaluation and operational test and evaluation. The MSTTE also supports electronic combat test and training as well as live-fire tests. The ASTE test environment has a Department of Defense – unique land-sea interface with contrasting background and clutter environments for munitions seeker testing. The unique McKinley Climatic Laboratory simulates rain, snow, ice, icing, dust, sand, salt, fog, humidity, and solar radiation in six chambers. The main test chamber will hold all operational aircraft, including the C-5. The Guided Weapons Evaluation Facility provides test support for developing and evaluating precision-guided weapons in simulated “real-world” environments. The Joint Preflight Integration of Munitions and Electronic Systems (J-PRIMES) Test Facility performs installed systems testing of air-to-air and air-to-surface munitions and electronic systems on full-scale aircraft and land vehicles. The main chamber will hold all current U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy fighter aircraft as well as U.S. Army rotorcraft with the rotors extended. The GWEF and J-PRIMES facilities can be linked in real-time (fiber optic) to allow early aircraft systems to munitions data transfer testing. The 46th Test Wing, through the 46th Weather Squadron, is responsible for all operational and staff meteorological support to Eglin. The 46th Weather Squadron supports testing, training, and operations for the 46th Test Wing, 96th Air Base Wing, 53rd Wing, 33rd Fighter Wing, 919th Special Operations Wing, AAC, 20th Space Control Squadron, and the DoD’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal School.
The 46th Test Group at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, provides a unique combination of test and evaluation services and state-of-the-art measurement and support facilities for: guidance and navigation testing, sled track testing, radar cross-section testing, flight testing, and White Sands Missile Range liaison. Their Guidance Facility is the DoD center of expertise for the test and evaluation of Inertial Navigation System (INS), Global Positioning System (GPS), GPS-Jamming, and blended INS/GPS components and systems in both benign and electronic warfare environments. Holloman’s High-Speed Test Track is the lead facility for all supersonic tracks and is the track center of expertise for aircraft escapes system testing, full scale lethality testing, electronic countermeasure systems, explosive blast effects, environmental erosion, dispenser testing, and hypersonic environmental testing. The National Radar Cross-Section Test Facility is a one-of-a-kind facility combining the best of monostatic and bi-static RCS measurements. Consolidation efforts at the NRTF have set the standard for industrial partnering, and the completion of significant technology improvements confirms the NRTF’s future in the ever changing world of stealth.
The Air Force SEEK EAGLE Office was chartered by the Secretary of the Air Force in December 1987. The mission of the AFSEO is to provide the United States Air Force increased combat capability through central management of the aircraft-stores certification process and provide in-house engineering and operations research capabilities. Additionally, the AFSEO is required to ensure the future viability of the aircraft-stores organic in-house capability with the insertion of evolving technologies.
The Air Force SEEK EAGLE Office utilizes three main avenues for accomplishing its mission. First, it supports the (^top of section)

store developmental, suspension equipment, and aircraft Systems Groups in ensuring their equipment will integrate with their production counterparts. Since this is a support function, it is paid for by the respective Systems Groups. Secondly, AFSEO is responsible for recommending safe carriage and employment limits for production stores on production aircraft, minimizing the risk of potential in-flight mishaps. Finally, AFSEO is responsible for ensuring that a capability exists within the Air Force to make these recommendations. Such a capability has existed within the U.S. Air Force for more than 35 years. The Air Force SEEK EAGLE Office maintains this capability through the utilization and development of digital modeling and simulation, ground testing, flight testing and the continual reinvestment in its intellectual capital.
The Landing Gear Test Facility, located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is equipped to perform functional tests on landing gear components and assemblies. As the only facility of its kind within DoD, it is devoted primarily but not exclusively to the support of military systems. The Aerospace Vehicle Survivability Facility accomplishes programs to predict and assess the magnitude of combat damage, increase aerospace vehicle survival despite combat damage, and achieve rapid repair of combat damage.
46th Test Wing Mission Statement
“The 46th Test Wing executes developmental test and evaluation and provides a joint test and training range complex to enable the warfighter to put weapons on target in all battlespace media”

They generate the battlespace, test the battlespace, test the weapon systems and the interaction between them all. They do this by building a representative battlespace instrumented to sub-meter and keystroke accuracy.
In this era of network-centric warfare, each weapon becomes a node in the system. In order to effectively test that weapon’s capability, they must have a networked environment to test the weapon’s interaction in that battlespace. This has operational and even strategic implications to the warfighter.
46th Test Wing Vision Statement
“To test all weapons and C4ISR systems in representative battlespace throughout their full operational envelope and provide an agile world class joint test and training capability to the warfighter”
Their vision is to be able to test all weapons and C4ISR systems in representative battlespace throughout their full operational envelope and provide an agile world class training capability to the warfighter…with unquestioned results.
Looking out to 2015, they must continue to focus on core weapon competencies with recognition that C4ISR test needs are increasing exponentially, followed closely by geometric rises in AFSOC and Sensor/Seeker testing. They’ve postured the wing to accommodate this changing workload demographic to include adjusting for longer range, faster release, and persistent weapons.
Additionally, they’re investing in several key technology thrusts, not the least of which are Directed Energy, Hypersonics, and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to prepare for the next iteration of weapons technologies.
46th Test Squadron
The 46th Test Squadron (46 TS) is the Air Force’s premier C4ISR test squadron and the responsible test organization for roughly one third of Electronic Systems Center’s (ESC) portfolio. They are at the leading edge of software performance monitoring and testing and are leading the charge in interoperability and capability-based testing. Through the use of their state-of-the-art, multi-level security Command and Control Test Facility – complete with eight seamlessly-integrated mission planning, datalink, and Air and Space Operations Center (AOC) labs – they apply a disciplined test approach to evaluate the links of the kill chain. The Datalinks Test Facility (DTF) hosts the Gulf Common Net, a combined operational, training, and test airborne network for both Link-16 and Situational Awareness Datalink (SADL) equipped platforms. This network enables testing of the latest technologies in gateways, radios, waveforms, and languages in an operationally representative environment while enabling our warfighters to gain experience operating with a plethora of unique network players.
308th Armament Systems Wing

The 308th Armament Systems Wing, is a joint U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy organization responsible for cradle-to-grave management of air dominance weapon system programs equipping warfighters with strike weapons to fight and win decisively.
The 308th ARSW is responsible for enhancing worldwide Air Force combat capability, effectiveness, aircrew survivability, and readiness through joint development, procurement, deployment and sustainment. This mission is executed by air combat test and training systems, expeditionary support equipment, munitions handling equipment and armament subsystems, Explosive (^top of section)


Ordnance Disposal support equipment, and realistic Electronic Warfare threat simulators.
The 308 ARSW designs, develops, produces, fields, and sustains a family of air-to-ground and air-to-air munitions, enhancing warfighter capabilities (both U.S. and allies) in defeating a spectrum of enemy targets.
These high priority multi-billion dollar systems offer Direct Attack, Area Attack, and Long Range attack capabilities designed to complement and rapidly adapt to operational mission requirements. The wing consists of over 900 highly qualified personnel trained in the development, test, acquisition, fielding, and operational support of systems such as the Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM), Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM), Small Diameter Bomb (SDB), Sensor Fuzed Weapon (SFW), Wind Corrected Munitions Dispenser (WCMD), Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM), Miniature Air Launched Decoy (MALD) and a host of other specialized programs.”
AFRL Munitions Directorate


The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Munitions Directorate, located at Eglin, develops conventional munitions technologies to provide the Air Force with a strong technology base upon which future precision air-delivered conventional munitions are developed to neutralize potential threats to the United States. Toward these goals, the Munitions Directorate is divided into three technology product divisions and three support divisions.
The Assessment and Demonstrations Division researches new computer analysis capabilities, develops models, and subsequently utilizes them to perform effectiveness analyses on advanced weapons concepts to determine optimum technology options for further development. It also conducts weapon demonstration projects, which integrate guidance and ordnance technologies with new weapon airframe and aircraft carriage techniques, to prove that the technology is mature and ready for transition.
The Advanced Guidance Division directs and conducts basic, exploratory, and advanced development research in (^top of section)
seekers, algorithms, processors and control loops for affordable air-to-air and air-to-surface conventional munitions and sub-munitions, as well as exo-atmospheric interceptors. Much of the technology focus is on autonomous precision-guided air-to-air and air-to-ground munitions, with decreased susceptibility to counter measures, improved weather performance, enhanced utility, and decreased cost.
The Ordnance Division researches, develops, and transitions ordnance technologies for development into air-delivered ordnance systems. These efforts span the entire life cycle of the technology from conceptual design through proof-of-principle evaluation, breadboard and brass-board testing, subsystem development, and component demilitarization. The technology emphasis of this division is the development of ordnance for defeating mobile and armored targets, deeply buried underground targets, and aerial targets.
The Integration and Operations Division enables the Directorate’s mission by providing well-conceived and executed program planning, business computing, human resource management, and business development services. The Financial Management Division enables the Directorate to manage its financial resources and the Procurement Division provides an in-house contracting capability. Logistics support is provided in the areas of quality assurance, environmental, safety and occupational health services.
33rd Fighter Wing

The 33rd Fighter Wing “Nomads” is the largest associate unit at Eglin, as well as a premier air-to-air combat unit of Air Combat Command. With two F-15C squadrons and an air control squadron, the wing’s mission is to deploy worldwide and provide air superiority and air control.
First established as the 33rd Pursuit Group, the wing’s contribution to tactical airpower during its 50-year history has been significant with participation in campaigns around the world, while flying various fighter aircraft. In 1965, the 33rd was activated at Eglin flying the F-4 Phantom II and in 1978, the wing converted to the F-15 Eagle.
Today, the wing flies the Multi-Stage Improvement Program F-15, equipped with F-100 engines and the multi-faceted APG-70 radar. The 33rd is also the first F-15 unit to achieve an operational capability with the Advance Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile.
Supporting the flying mission is a robust maintenance group providing the long- and short-term readiness of the aircraft fleet. All together, there are about 1,900 Airmen and civilians assigned to the wing.
The Nomads have established and maintained a reputation as the leading tacticians in the fighter community. The wing is the only one to win back-to-back victories in 1984 and 1986 at the biannual William Tell air-to-air competition. In 1990 and 1992, the 58th Fighter Squadron received the Hughes Trophy, honoring it as the top air-to-air unit in the Air Force and the 59th followed suit in 1993. Followed by the ACC Daedalian Award, in 1994 it was honored as the top wing for maintenance effectiveness and efficiency. 2005 brought the Hughes Trophy back to the 60th FS and the 33rd Fighter Wing.
Participating in Operations Desert Shield and Storm, the 58th became the first Air Force unit to employ the F-15 in combat, achieving 16 aerial victories against Iraqi forces, including the first three kills of the war.
Two operations developed as a direct result of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11. Operation Enduring Freedom, the war against the Taliban and Al Qaeda and Operation Noble Eagle for homeland defense. While individual 33rd personnel deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, all Nomad units deploy for direct or indirect support of the Global War on Terror through their efforts in OEF and ONE.
More than 60 years have passed since the 33rd Pursuit Group was established at Mitchell Field. History reveals time after time, the Airmen of the 33rd answer the call to arms with courage and honor.
53rd Wing

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.
The wing is comprised of four groups with an estimated 2,100 military and civilians at 20 various squadrons, detachments and operating locations across the United States.
The 53rd Electronic Warfare Group is located at Eglin. Its mission is to provide electronic warfare operational, technical and maintenance expertise for fighter, bomber, and reconnaissance aircraft. Unit personnel are responsible for systems engineering, testing, evaluation, tactics development, employment and technology assessment. They also have a wartime responsibility for emergency reprogramming of EW systems mission data. The group manages the Electronic Warfare Aggressor Program called Combat Shield, and participates in exercises like the annual Red Flag held at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev.
The 53rd Test and Evaluation Group, is located at Nellis. It manages all wing flying activities at Eglin, Nellis, Holloman, Whiteman, Dyess and Barksdale Air Force Bases. Members of the group execute operational test, evaluation and tactics development for America’s fighter and bomber aircraft. Aircraft assigned to the group include test-configured (^top of section)

F-15, F-15E, F-16, A-10, HH-60 and F-117 aircraft with flying hours assigned to the B-1, B-2 and B-52 aircraft. The group also conducts operational test and evaluation of the Global Hawk and Predator unmanned aerial vehicles, and soon will begin testing of the Airborne Laser System. The 422nd Test and Evaluation Squadron at Nellis has received its first F-22 Raptor aircraft for operational testing.
The 53rd Weapons Evaluation Group, located at Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla., conducts operations at Tyndall, Eglin, and Holloman Air Force Bases. This group has a variety of missions, including conducting the U.S. Air Force Air-to-Air Weapon System Evaluation Program, known as Combat Archer, and the U.S. Air Force Air-to-Ground Weapon System Evaluation Program, known as Combat Hammer. These programs evaluate “man, munition, and machine,” while providing invaluable training to fighter and bomber aircrews by allowing them to launch or drop live weapons at realistic targets. In addition, the group is the U.S. Air Force’s sole operator of full- and sub-scale aerial targets for developmental, operational, and follow-on test and evaluation conducted by the U.S. Air Force and other joint and foreign services. The group also plans, manages, and executes the U.S. Air Force air-to-air weapons competition, known as William Tell.
The 53rd Test Management Group, located at Eglin accomplishes all test planning, monitoring, analysis, and reporting for operational tests executed by the other 53rd groups. In addition, it provides technical and tactical expertise in the acquisition, sustainment and certification of all training devices for the Combat Air Forces. This group also provides the full range of communications and computer support for the wing. The 53rd Wing motto – “We Sharpen the Sword and Strengthen the Shield” – describes its critical contribution to the lethality and survivability of America’s Combat Air Forces worldwide.
919th Special Operations Wing

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 919th SOW flies and maintains the MC-130E Combat Talon I and the MC-130P Combat Shadow. These aircraft are specially modified for covert operations and aerial refueling of special operations helicopters. The MC-130E (AFRC asset) is based at Duke Field. The MC-130P (active-duty asset) is based at Eglin.
The 919th SOW employs about 1,300 reservists. Air reserve technicians, commonly referred to as ARTs, are the nucleus of the wing. They provide management continuity to keep the units combat ready. ARTs carry dual status as full-time civil service employees for the Air Force who, as a condition (^top of section)

of employment, must participate as reservists. More than 280 ARTs and 35 civilians support the wing in day-to-day operations.
In September 2001, up to 600 wing reservists were activated in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, in the war against terrorism. By October 2002, close to 550 reservists were extended for a second year of activation in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In the two-year period following Sept. 11, 2001, the wing tallied approximately 1,800 combat sorties, 5,000 combat hours, and more than 700 reservists activated. By Sept. 29, 2003, most wing members were deactivated; however, activation taskings continue for smaller numbers of wing members.
The 919th SOW’s motto, “Citizen Commandos – Always Ready,” describes the wing’s reservists and their readiness and ability to serve without delay.
20th Space Control Squadron

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. The AN/FPS-85 radar can track


approximately 90 percent of all manmade objects in earth orbit. The radar can track near-earth objects the size of a softball moving at 300 miles and deep space objects the size of a basketball moving at 22,300 nautical miles above earth. Located at Site C-6 on Eglin, the squadron is a geographically separated unit of the 21st Space Wing and the only Air Force Space Command unit on Eglin.
6th Ranger Training Battalion

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. Leadership skills are taxed when conducting small unit operations in a simulated combat environment by the daily challenges students encounter including severe


weather, swampy terrain, periods of hunger, mental and physical fatigue, as well as emotional stress.
Included in the field training exercise are airborne and helicopter assaults, small boat operations, river crossings and swamp crossings.
Camp James E. Rudder is one of the oldest subinstallations on Eglin (since 1951) with operating and quality of life facilities to provide family housing units, a community center, a gymnasium, a swimming pool, a tennis court, a chapel, a reptile facility, a billeting complex, an ammunition storage area, a troop dining facility, a troop medical clinic, civil engineering shop transportation sub-motor pool, a boathouse, a repelling tower and an airborne staging area plus an air strip capable of accommodating C-130 and C-17 aircraft.
The 6th Ranger Training Battalion’s parent organization is the Ranger Training Brigade located at Fort Benning, GA.
Naval School Explosive Ordnance Disposal
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. These five new buildings, which centralize all basic EOD training at Eglin, total 117,000 square feet and were built at a cost of $16.2 million.
NAVSCOLEOD’s additional facilities are located just inside the east gate, including a three building, 252 room bachelor quarters complex, a second training facility located in Building 845, and an extensive practical training facility on Range D-51. Three demolition training areas at Ranges D-51 and C-52 West, and C-52 North, a training aid and facilities maintenance compound


and six explosive storage magazines are also part of the school’s facilities.
The command is tasked with the mission of training officers and enlisted personnel of the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, Army, Air Force, certain Department of Defense civilian personnel and select international military students. They are all taught the most current procedures for the location, identification, render safe, recovery, technical evaluation, and disposal of conventional surface and underwater ordnance, both foreign and domestic.
NAVSCOLEOD is staffed with 18 officers, 17 civilian government workers, and 231 enlisted personnel from all four branches of service and trains approximately 800 students annually. The course is broken down into 10 separate training divisions: CORE, demolition, tools and methods, biological and chemical, ground ordnance, air ordnance, Improvised Explosive Devices, nuclear ordnance, underwater ordnance and underwater tools and techniques. For Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps students the school consists of 134 academic training days and for Navy students 198 academic training days.
AFOTEC Det 2

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. The primary purpose of operational test and evaluation is to reduce risk in the acquisition process by determining how well systems perform when operated and maintained by military personnel in operational environments. To that end, Detachment 2 has led the way with early involvement in the System Development Process resulting in positive influence of


test designs early in program life cycles. The result has been a significant reduction in test duplication while producing higher quality end products for the warfighter at a greatly reduced cost.
Today, Detachment 2 remains at the forefront of modern test innovation by validating new test methodologies and exploring the limits of cutting-edge modeling and simulation technology. Comprised of six divisions, Detachment 2 is tasked with conducting operational test and evaluation on electronic warfare, mission planning, air armament, combat support, special operations, and advanced systems. Results are reported to the Chief of Staff and are used at all levels of the Air Force and Department of Defense to support program decisions that lead to the production and fielding of systems.
… Our ultimate customer is the Airman, Soldier, Sailor, or Marine … our sons and daughters... who will judge our efforts with their battlefield accomplishments … and their lives!
This is a sacred trust that will not be compromised.
Joint Fires Integratoin & Interoperability Team

JFIIT Joint Mission: Essential Tasks
• Conduct assessments of Joint fires training
-- Joint context and Joint task execution
• Conduct assessments of Joint fires capabilities
-- Emergent and current capabilities
• Support training on selected Joint fires issues
-- Teach-coach-mentor-handoff
• Submit and follow solutions through established processes
-- Services, USJFCOM and Joint Capabilities Improvement Development System (JCIDS)
MISSION: The Joint Fires Integration and Interoperability Team is a subordinate, functional command of U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM), tasked with improving the integration, interoperability and effectiveness of Joint fires. USJFCOM established JFIIT in February 2005 to provide assistance to Joint force commanders and Service headquarters in planning, coordinating and executing Joint fires at the tactical level. JFIIT’s 120-member team is made up of members from all four Services and Department of Defense civilians with contractor support.


JFIIT takes a holistic approach to improving Joint fires by providing solutions that produce effective target acquisition, command and control, and interoperable firing systems, thereby reducing fratricide and collateral damage.
JFIIT’s focus areas include Joint Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (JISR) support to and Joint air-to-ground fires integration with maneuver. Command and Control and Combat Identification receive attention as inherent elements within these areas.
When appropriate, JFIIT’s capability assessments include collaboration with organizations such as the: National Reconnaissance Office, Center for Naval Analyses, Joint Interoperability Test Command, Office of the Secretary of Defense Joint Test and Evaluations and the Services’ Fires Centers of Excellence.