The Office of the Air Force Surgeon General, located on Bolling, leads the Air Force Medical Service. The Air Force Surgeon General is the medical staff advisor to the secretary of the Air Force and Air Force chief of staff and develops programs, plans and policies to assure the health and combat effectiveness of Air Force members.

The AFMS develops and operates a comprehensive community-based health care system to assure maximum wartime readiness and to maintain the health and morale of Air Force members. During contingencies, the health system rapidly expands, mobilizes and deploys to provide medical support for Air Force operations worldwide. The service arranges timely, quality medical service for active duty members, their families and other beneficiaries.

The surgeon general's office supports the Air Force mission through planning and operating programs in aerospace medicine, military public health, environmental health and dental service.

This office develops long-range medical objectives for the Air Force, provides medical support of Air Force disaster and emergency activities, and formulates plans for the recruiting, education, training and utilization of AFMS members. In addition, it works with Headquarters Air Force regarding the physical fitness program and medical retirement issues. Logon to www.afms.mil⁄sg for more information.

Air Force Office of Special Investigations, Detachment 332

The Air Force Office of Special Investigations Detachment 332 is a field-operating agency under the 3d Field Investigations Region, headquartered at Scott AFB, Illinois. The detachment is responsible for providing independent, professional criminal fraud and counterintelligence investigative services to Air Force and select DOD organizations and elements within the National Capital Region, principally the 11th Wing and Air Force resources located in the Pentagon and the Defense Intelligence Agency.

Detachment 332's team of special agents works to uncover facts surrounding felony crimes including robbery, assault, rape, homicide and narcotics matters and focuses on identifying, investigating and neutralizing espionage and terrorist activities that threaten Air Force and DOD resources.

Air Force Historian

The Air Force Historian's office publishes various historical documents for the Air Force and the general public, sets policy for the entire Air Force historical program, conducts historical studies for the air staff and provides specific historical information to government and non-government agencies.

Air Force Central Adjudication Facility

The AFCAF provides security clearance and special-access program information for all active duty, Air National Guard, Reserve, civilians and contractors for the United States Air Force.

Air Force Chaplain Service

The Air Force Office of the Chief of the Chaplain Service provides functional doctrine and policies to recruit, train, organize, equip and sustain an agile chaplain service in support of Air Force mission objectives and the free exercise of religion.

Air Force Directorate of Departmental Publishing

Located in Building 94 at the Navy's Anacostia Annex, AFDPO is the publishing manager for the Air Force secretariat and Air Force staff. AFDPO creates, publishes, manages and distributes all departmental-level publications and information management tools, formerly known as forms, throughout the Air Force.

AFDPO assists the office of primary responsibility with drafting, formatting and coordination requirements for publications and information management tools. AFDPO also manages the central repository for storage and distribution of physical products generated by publishing managers from departmental to major command, field-operating activities and direct reporting units. It manages the centralized electronic repository for storage and dissemination of digitized publications and IMTs from departmental down to base level. And, it manages the central tagging operation that prepares all publications from headquarters to wing level for digital dissemination.

AFDPO is responsible for providing and maintaining the standard software used for designing and filling out “standard“ Air Force IMTs and assisting functional communities in developing interactive applications with more intelligent IMTs. Although distribution media include a CD-ROM of Air Force departmental publications and forms that is generated quarterly and a warehouse in Essex, Md., that stores and distributes physical products, the most active medium is a publicly accessible Web site on the Internet at e-publishing.hq.air force.mil.

This Web site allows all Air Force customers to access digitized products or order physical products on-line. Using this Web site as a starting point, customers can automatically search the publishing databases of the other services, plus the entire Department of Defense. There is also a standards and formats site that gives detailed guidance on how to produce a publication or an IMT.

Defense Intelligence Agency

The Defense Intelligence Agency is a major producer and manager of intelligence for the Department of Defense. Its mission is to provide timely, objective and all-source military intelligence to warfighters, policymakers and force planners to meet a variety of challenges across the spectrum of conflict.

DIA's director is the primary military intelligence adviser to the secretary of defense and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Under the auspices of the Military Intelligence Board, DIA unites the defense intelligence community on major issues dealing with policy, assessments, support to deployed forces and resources. In addition, DIA assists weapon systems planners and the defense acquisition community by providing intelligence on foreign weapon systems.

Although headquartered in the Pentagon, DIA personnel are located throughout the world including here at Bolling in the Defense Intelligence Analysis Center.

DIA is organized along functional lines, reflecting the intelligence cycle of planning, collection, processing, analysis and production, dissemination and evaluation.

Its directorate for operations directs and manages the Department of Defense’s all-source intelligence collection requirements.

DIA's intelligence analysis and production capabilities are located in three directorates: the Joint Staff's Directorate for Intelligence, the Directorate for Analysis and the Directorate for Policy Support.

Two major directorates provide essential agency support and services.

The Directorate for Information Systems and Services performs key functions in the processing and dissemination of intelligence while the Directorate of Administration provides a wide range of services, training, contracting and security support.

DIA's Joint Military Intelligence College is a fully accredited joint-service intelligence educational institution and awards master of science degrees in strategic intelligence and bachelor of science degrees in intelligence.

Whether managing the deployment of a multiagency national intelligence support team to provide on-the-ground, tailored intelligence support to military commanders during crises, or developing innovative concepts toward a virtual collaborative environment for intelligence analysis such as the Joint Intelligence Virtual Architecture, DIA is “Committed to Excellence in Defense of the Nation.“ For mor information, logon to www.dia.mil

Directorate of Intelligence Systems

Located at Bolling, the IND office assists the air staff in the acquisition, implementation, development and security certification testing of intelligence. IND bridges both national and tactical communities to ensure architectures, policies, standards and systems facilitate the flow of intelligence from national to tactical unit levels.

Directorate of Operations Applications

This office serves as the focal point for Air Force intelligence in the weapon system acquisition process and acts as the Air Force's functional manager for targeting and geospatial intelligence and science, guidance and management oversight of the targeting program and all service-unique GI&S issues. INO is also a key player in the development of automated tools such as the joint digital target materials, joint targeting toolbox and the Air Force targeting homepage.

Defense Requirements Office

This office directs and manages national system collection and dissemination operations for global Air Force requirements and national program guidance. The DRO also plans, organizes and coordinates programs and systems integration into Air Force architecture and operations.

Civil Air Patrol

The three primary missions of the U.S. Air Force Auxiliary Civil Air Patrol National Capital Wing are cadet programs, aerospace education and emergency services. CAP serves America by developing American youth, accomplishing local and national missions and educating citizens to ensure air and space supremacy. CAP is the “Eyes of the Home Skies“ for homeland security. It performs more than 85 percent of inland search-and-rescue missions tasked by the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center in the continental United States. CAP volunteers also take a leading role in aerospace education and serve as mentors to some of America’s youth through CAP cadet programs. The cadet program develops the potential of young people 12 to 21 years old through aerospace education, leadership training and physical fitness. CAP adult members help inspire and encourage cadets interested in aviation or military careers.