Odgen Air Logistics Center
The Ogden Air Logistics Center is a major component at Hill AFB and aims to be America's best War fighter sustainment organization. It is one of three such logistics centers assigned to the Air Force Materiel Command, headquartered at Wright-Patterson AFB,Ohio. It is the largest employer in Utah, with more than 18,000 civilian and military personnel. The center also employs several thousand contractors at any given time.
The center has worldwide engineering, sustainment and logistics management and maintenance support responsibilities for some of the Air Force's most sophisticated weapon systems, including the Minuteman and Peacekeeper intercontinental ballistic missiles. The center is the Air Force Center of Industrial and Technical Excellence for low-observable,'stealth,' aircraft structural composite materials and provides support for the B-2 Spirit multi-role bomber and F-22 Raptor.
Program management for two of the Air Force's fighter aircraft is performed at this center. Approximately 200 F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft receive depot maintenance, modification and repair annually on the base.Additionally, approximately 100 A-10 Thunderbolt II's receive depot level inspections, modifications and maintenance continues to grow. The center also performs depot maintenance on the C-130 Hercules.
The center has responsibilities depot-level overhaul and repair for all types of landing gear, wheels, brakes and tires and is the logistics manager for all conventional air munitions, solid propellants and explosive devices used throughout the Air Force. The center is the Air Force technical repair center for composites. In addition, the center provides a full range of sustainment and logistics support for space and command, control, communication and intelligence systems.
The center is also responsible for mature and proven aircraft, as well as providing photonics imaging and reconnaissance equipment; aircraft and missile crew training devices; avionic, hydraulic, pneudralic and radar components; instruments; gas turbine engines; power equipment systems; special purpose vehicles; shelters; and software engineering, development and support.