It was reactivated in 2015 after inactivation in 2012[1] at Joint Base San Antonio and was assigned directly to Hq, USAF.

AFMA executed the Air Force competitive sourcing program and conducted special studies.

The agency also assisted combatant commanders in determining military essential requirements in support of warfighting scenarios, supported the manpower functional community, and was home to the Air Force Survey Office, which provided attitude and opinion survey tools such as the Air Force Climate Survey.

[3] Starting in 1992, the agency took over the field management engineering teams that had been assigned to USAF's Major Commands[5] and reorganized them on a functional basis.

Starting at the end of 2004, it reorganized, replacing its teams with numbered squadrons and flights.