15-704: The Air Force Data Systems Design Center (AFDSDC) was activated on 26 Oct 1967. The unit was located at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington D.C. Its mission was to analyze, design, develop, program, test, implement and maintain all automated data processing systems; incorporate HQ USAF-approved integration and interface requirements in assigned automated data systems; develop and maintain general purpose software required by assigned systems; and develop and recommend standards covering programming languages and documentation requirements for automated data systems. The AFDSDC moved to Gunter AFS in 1971 and has since gone through
30-404: A number of transformations including: Headquarters Air Force Teleprocessing Center (1984); Headquarters Standard Information Systems Center (1985); Headquarters Standard Systems Center (1986); Headquarters Standard Systems Group (1995); 554th Electronic Systems Wing (2006), Enterprise Information Systems Directorate (July 2010), Business and Enterprise Systems (September 2011). This article about
45-897: A single voice for Air Force requirements in the National Capital Region" according to the base's website. Between 19 and 23 December 2000, representatives from the Israeli government and Palestinian Authority convened at Bolling to negotiate a final-status agreement to end the Israeli–Palestinian conflict . The failure of these negotiations led to the unveiling on 23 December of the Clinton Parameters . [REDACTED] This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency Air Force District of Washington The Air Force District of Washington (AFDW)
60-635: A specific American military unit is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Bolling Air Force Base Bolling Air Force Base or Bolling AFB is a United States Air Force base in Washington, D.C. In 2010, it was merged with Naval Support Facility Anacostia to form Joint Base Anacostia–Bolling . From its beginning, the installation has hosted elements of the Army Air Corps (predecessor to today's Air Force) and Navy aviation and support elements. Before European colonization ,
75-783: Is a Direct Reporting Unit of the United States Air Force . AFDW oversees Air Force operations in the Washington, D.C. region (also known as the " National Capital Region " or "NCR"). As a Direct Reporting Unit , AFDW is directly subordinate to the Chief of Staff, Headquarters, United States Air Force , and serves as the Air Force service component to the JFHQ-NCR. AFDW was originally headquartered on Bolling Air Force Base , but changed to Joint Base Andrews-Naval Air Facility Washington (JBA-NAFW). AFDW originates back to
90-470: The 316 Wing and the 844th Communication Group. The 844th Communications Group have a specialized communications mission and serve as the central communications support group for the Air Force in the National Capital Region (NCR). The 316th Wing fulfills duties as the host base organization of Joint Base Andrews, while also supporting AFDW requirements. AFDW also supports airmen in more than 33,000 Airmen in over 200 locations in 108 countries. AFDW serves as
105-438: The Air Force 11th Wing; Commander, Naval Installations Command, Naval Media Center (now, Defense Media Activity-Navy) and many other military commands and federal agencies. The Air Force District of Washington (AFDW) was created and activated at Bolling on 1 October 1985 with the mission of providing administrative support to Air Force members. On 15 July 1994, AFDW was inactivated, but was reactivated 5 January 2005 to "provide
120-518: The Air Force service component for coordination purposes to JTF-NCR and the supporting command to Joint Task Force National Capital Region . JTF-NCR has an emergency or major event operation 'mobilization' function as Joint Task Force-National Capital Region. Under the Joint Task Force NCR (JTF-NCR), the 320th Air Expeditionary Wing (320 AEW) activates and becomes the Air Force service component of JTF-NCR. The Commander of AFDW serves as
135-646: The Potomac River. The Department of Defense (DOD) has owned the Bolling grounds since 1917, when the tract of land was scouted by William C. Ocker at the direction of General Billy Mitchell . Founded on 2 October 1917 as The Flying Field at Anacostia , it was the first military airfield near the United States Capitol . It was renamed Anacostia Experimental Flying Field in June 1918. Soon,
150-624: The Potomac in the city's southwest quadrant , in the 1930s. Over the years, Marine Corps, Coast Guard and National Guard units, as well as DOD and federal agencies also found the installation to be an ideal place from which to operate. Although fixed-wing aircraft operations ceased, the installations continued to serve the Military Airlift Command (MAC); the headquarters for the Air Force District of Washington;
165-557: The area where Bolling Air Force Base is located was inhabited by the Nacotchtank , an Algonquian people. The largest village of the Nacotchtank was located just north of the air force base, south of Anacostia Park . Another Nacotchtank village is believed to have existed on the base grounds, where two ossuaries (burial mounds) were discovered in 1936. Other Nacotchtank archaeological sites have been found at Giesboro Point on
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#1732802479465180-497: The former location at the Polo Grounds, Washington, D.C. In the late 1940s, Bolling Field's property became Naval Air Station Anacostia and a new Air Force base, named Bolling Air Force Base, was constructed just to the south on 24 June 1948. Bolling AFB has served as a research and testing ground for new aviation equipment and its first mission provided aerial defense of the capital. It moved to its present location, along
195-424: The post-World War II era when Bolling Field Command was established on 15 December 1946. Bolling Field Command absorbed functions from various support organizations in the Washington, D.C. vicinity. It was redesignated Headquarters Command, USAF, on 17 March 1958. When Headquarters Command, USAF, inactivated on 1 July 1976, many of its functions passed to Military Airlift Command . The Air Force District of Washington
210-755: The single installation evolved into two separate, adjoining bases; one Army (later Air Force) and one Navy. Bolling Field was opened 1 July 1918 and was named for Colonel Raynal C. Bolling , the first high-ranking air service officer killed in World War I . Colonel Bolling was the Assistant Chief of the Air Service, and was killed in action near Amiens, France , on 26 March 1918 while defending himself and his driver, Private Paul L. Holder, from German soldiers. Flying activities began on 4 July 1918 with mailplanes landing there, with all equipment removed from
225-456: Was constituted and activated, on 1 October 1985. it was inactivated on 15 Jul 1994, due to declining defense budgets. AFDW was reactivated on 7 July 2005, to realign the Air Force command structure in the NCR with the other military services, improve Air Force support to Joint Force Headquarters – National Capital Region (JFHQ-NCR). AFDW oversees two wings and one group on JBA-NAFW: the 11th Wing ,
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