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APPENDIX 2
AFKM Team and Structure
Throughout the history of the AFKM program, contractors played a key role.
Although final authority was always vested in a military officer or civil service employee
assigned to AFMC/DR, most programming and technology for the AFKM System came
from contractors. The primary contractor for the DoD Acquisition Deskbook develop-
ment had been Company A.² With additional projects, Company B² and Company C²
joined the team. The specific responsibilities and tasks varied from year to year as
projects evolved and as the contracts were renewed and renegotiated. The resulting
AFKM program organization is shown in Figure 1. AeroCorp was charged with estab-
lishing the basic AFKM program by bringing together the existing AFKM Lessons
Learned database, AFMC Help Center, and Virtual Schoolhouse. Most of the AFKM
System Development Team’s work was split between maintaining and updating existing
functions and developing new applications. The majority of the new applications
focused on building workspaces for CoPs. Each contractor used a number of personnel
to work on projects—some personnel worked on AFKM projects exclusively while
others came in and out of the projects as necessary. Prior to the 2001 budget cuts, with
AeroCorp acting as the lead contractor, 41 personnel had been assigned to the AFKM
Team.
4 personnelCompany A Company B
11 personnelCompany C
14 personnelAeroCorp
10 personnelMike Lipka
Program Mgr.
AeroCorpRandy Adkins
AFMC/DR4 personnelCompany A Company B
11 personnelCompany C
14 personnelAeroCorp
10 personnelMike Lipka
Program Mgr.
AeroCorpRandy Adkins
AFMC/DRAppendix 2 – Figure 1. AFKM Team structure