United States Air Force Sustainment Center (): Annual Strategic Plan

Key Chapter Title List

1. Preface
2. AFSC Organizational Structure Chart
3. Strategic Framework
4. Delivering Combat Readiness and Fostering a Warrior Ethos (Strategic Effort 1)
5. Attracting, Recruiting, Developing, and Retaining a World-Class Air Force Workforce (Strategic Effort 2)
6. Delivering Supply Chain Readiness and Resilience (Strategic Effort 3)
7. Modernizing and Posturing the Industrial Base (Strategic Effort 4)
8. Appendix Overview
9. Strategic Efforts and Objectives (LOEs and Objectives)
10. Glossary of Acronyms (Glossary)

Document Introduction

This report provides an in-depth analysis of the "2025 Strategic Plan" released by the United States Air Force Sustainment Center (AFSC). Serving as the core guiding document for AFSC's future actions, it aims to address the complex and ever-changing global security environment. By defining clear strategic goals and priorities, it ensures the provision of world-class sustainment capabilities for warfighters. The report's core revolves around AFSC's four strategic efforts, systematically elaborating on how the center prepares for future high-intensity conflicts and great power competition while maintaining existing operational platforms, through technological innovation, process optimization, and industrial base modernization.

The report begins by setting the tone with the Preface and Strategic Framework, highlighting AFSC's core mission of forging readiness and accelerating innovation, as well as its commitment to driving institution-wide transformation through the operational philosophy of the "Art of the Possible." The document details AFSC's organizational structure, including its subordinate Air Logistics Complexes, Supply Chain Wings, and the newly established Software Directorate, reflecting its integrated sustainment system that combines maintenance, supply chain, and software support.

At the specific strategic level, the document discusses the four efforts one by one. First, it focuses on delivering combat readiness and fostering a warrior ethos, emphasizing the commitment to on-time, on-cost delivery, testing rapid deployment capabilities through large-scale exercises, and introducing the transformative Global Enterprise Network for Universal Sustainment (GENUS) initiative. GENUS aims to expand sustainment projection capabilities outside the continental United States and enhance supply chain resilience by optimizing existing capabilities and establishing international partnerships, rather than building new maintenance depots. Second, it focuses on human resources, outlining a full-cycle strategy from attracting and recruiting to developing and retaining a world-class workforce. This includes optimizing recruitment processes, innovating training methods, and developing comprehensive employee retention plans to build a talent pool with the skills required for the future.

The third section delves into delivering supply chain readiness and resilience. The report details key processes such as supply chain planning (demand, inventory, supply planning), the application of predictive analytics, Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM), and Repair Network Management (RNM). It particularly emphasizes support for the nuclear mission as the highest priority and improving procurement efficiency through strategic sourcing and category management. Furthermore, the concept of Logistics Under Attack (LUA) is introduced, aiming to ensure sustainment continuity in contested environments through pre-positioned war reserve materiel (PWRM) and dynamic response capabilities.

The fourth section concerns modernizing and posturing the industrial base. The report outlines the modernization plan for the Organic Industrial Base (OIB), including assessing and investing in facilities, equipment, and digital capabilities through the Air Force Depot Infrastructure Optimization Plan (AF DIOP). Key areas involve the Capital Investment Plan, the application of advanced manufacturing technologies (such as additive manufacturing, robotics), and building a digital depot ecosystem. This aims to achieve data-driven decision-making and standardized operations across the institution through business process transformation (e.g., introducing MRO, ESCAPE systems).

This strategic plan is not only an internal roadmap for AFSC but also clearly reflects the strategic shift within the U.S. Air Force and even the Department of Defense in the field of logistics and sustainment: moving from a focus on peacetime efficiency to preparing for Logistics Under Attack and global power projection in the era of great power competition. Through initiatives like GENUS to strengthen cooperation with allies, and significant investment in digitalization and advanced manufacturing technologies, AFSC is attempting to build a more resilient, responsive, and technologically advanced sustainment system to support the U.S. Air Force's global deterrence and combat operations.