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Air Force Personnel Center stands up operating location at AFDW

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  • By Kenny Pruitt
  • AFPC Public Affairs
AIR FORCE DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON --  Beginning April 1, the Air Force Personnel Center is establishing operating locations to provide reach-back capability and on-site personnel specialists for the Air Force Materiel Command and the Air Force District of Washington Large Civilian Centers.

The transition to AFPC operating locations integrates staffing processes for 50 percent of the Air Force civilian workforce currently employed by AFMC and AFDW.

The existing Civilian Personnel staffing workload, managed by Large Civilian Centers at Hill AFB, Utah; Robins AFB, Ga.; Tinker AFB, Okla.; Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio; and Bolling AFB, Washington, D.C., will transition to the newly established AFPC operating locations under AFPC leadership. The first operating location will stand-up at Tinker AFB April 1, followed by the Air Force District of Washington July 1 and Hill AFB, Robins AFB and Wright-Patterson AFB in 2011.

Each operating location will continue civilian staffing responsibilities but will have specific insight into the local mission and be able to forecast surges in workload. Commanders and customers at the Large Civilian Centers will continue to receive direct staffing assistance for their installations.

"To our customers in the NCR, the transition from AFDW to AFPC will be transparent," said Mr. Ryan Ferrell, AFDW director of Manpower, Personnel and Services.

Many of the Large Civilian Center staff members will transition to the operating locations and become new members of AFPC. These personnelists understand the processes and mission for their respective location and have the full reach-back capability to AFPC, further enhancing the effectiveness of civilian personnel processes.

As the new operating locations are established, the teams will seamlessly continue to produce job referral lists, extend job offers, perform in-processing for new civilian employees, and provide staffing advice to managers, among many other functions. The transition process should be transparent to customers.

AFPC will work jointly with AFDW and AFMC to develop best practices in staffing processes to meet customers' needs to meet mission requirements and build a better Air Force.

For more information, call A1 Field Operating Agency Public Affairs at (210) 565-2334 or e-mail afpc.pa.dlist@randolph.af.mil.