Eglin Air Force Base

The Air Armament Center, headquartered at Eglin AFB, Fla., is one of four product centers in Air Force Materiel Command. The center is responsible for development, acquisition, testing, deployment and maintenance of all air-delivered weapons.

The base covers 724 square miles of land, encompassing three Florida counties - Santa Rosa, Okaloosa and Walton. It also has 133,000 square miles of water ranges in the Gulf of Mexico that are used for testing.

The AAC applies advanced technology to provide superior combat capability to the warfighter. The center plans, directs and conducts tests and evaluations of U.S. and allied air armament, navigation/guidance systems and command and control systems.

It provides host support to Eglin and to Kirtland AFB, N.M. The center supports the largest single base mobility commitment in the Air Force.

AAC accomplishes its mission through four components-the Armament Product Directorate (Eglin), the 46th Test Wing (Eglin), the 96th Air Base Wing (Eglin) and the 377th Air Base Wing (Kirtland).

The Armament Product Directorate is the focal point for research, acquisition, testing and maintenance of the world's most superior armaments, ranging from tactical missiles to explosive ordnance disposal equipment.

Eglin AFB also is host to the 33d Fighter Wing and 53d Wing, Air Combat Command units, the 20th Space Surveillance Squadron, the Navy School EOD, 919th Special Operations Wing (Hurlburt Field), the Army's 6th Ranger Training Battalion, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Battlelab, a Coast Guard Station, Joint Fires Integration and Interoperability Team and the Eglin Federal Prison Camp.