Air Force Materiel Command

The U.S. Air Force Materiel Command is responsible for research & development, system acquisition, and logistics for the United States Air Force. It traces its origins to an Army Air Corps organization created in 1917, and has gone through several evolutions of its name.

It is headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. General Donald Hoffman is its commander and Lieutenant General Janet Wolfenbarger is the Vice Commander,

History
Its earlier ancestor was McCook Field, a World War I-era, experimental engineering facility in Dayton, Ohio. When the U.S. Air Service was created in 1918, it became the Engineering Division, and then was given responsibility for logistics, and designated. Air Corps Materiel Division in 1926.

In the Second World War, R&D was separated from logistics, but combined in the late 1940s as Air Materiel Command. In 1950, the R&D function again was split out into Air Research and Development Command. 1961 saw yet another renaming of both, with the Air Material Command becoming the Air Force Logistics Command (ALFC) and the ARDC gaining the role of weapons system acquisition and becoming the Air Force Systems Command (AFSC).

To continue the dance, AFLC and AFSC merged again in 1992.