AFCEC to participate in Installation Innovation Forum Published Jan. 4, 2013 By Air Force Civil Engineer Center Public Affairs Office SAN ANTONIO -- Representatives from the Air Force will participate in the Association of Defense Communities Installation Innovation Forum Jan. 14-16 here at the Westin Riverwalk. The community-focused event is being held as the military strives to achieve efficiencies in a constrained budget environment. While these challenges affect defense communities, often times the communities working alongside the military provide solutions to ease the impact. Kathleen Ferguson, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Installations, Environment and Logistics, will join a host of her colleagues as a featured speaker on a panel discussing installation management situational analysis. In particular, she'll talk about challenges associated with leaner budgets and how partnering can lessen the impacts. Air Force Civil Engineer Center representatives, including Robert Moore, director of the Installations Center of Excellence, will also participate in a panel session on the benefits of partnering and innovative land agreements. Headquartered at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, AFCEC is a 1,600-person Air Force civil engineer field operating agency responsible for providing responsive, flexible full-spectrum installation engineering services. AFCEC missions include facility investment planning, design and construction, operations support, real property management, energy support, environmental compliance and restoration, and audit assertions, acquisition and program management. The unit conducts its operations at more than 75 locations worldwide. For more information about the forum, visit http://www.defensecommunities.org/.