Air Force Headquarters RAAF

Air Force Headquarters RAAF is the headquarters of the Royal Australian Air Force. It provides strategic leadership to the Air Force and provides policy guidance for Air Force activities to the rest of the Australian Defence Force and Australian Government.^[1]

Air Force Headquarters
Active	31 March 1921 - Current
Country	Australia
Role	Command of the Royal Australian Air Force
Motto(s)	Vision, Direction, Leadership
Website	https://www.airforce.gov.au/about-us/structure/air-force-headquarters
Commanders
Chief of Air Force	Air Marshal Stephen Chappell DSC, CSC, OAM
Deputy Chief of Air Force	Air Vice-Marshal Harvey Reynolds, AM
Head of Air Force Capability	Air Vice-Marshal Nicholas Hogan, CSC
Warrant Officer of the Air Force	Warrant Officer of the Air Force Ralph Clifton

The Chief of Air Force oversees activities that raise, train and sustain assigned Air Force capabilities.

The Deputy Chief of Air Force acts as the manager of the headquarters and provides strategic leadership of Air Force Headquarters in the following domains:

• Air power concepts and doctrine
• Enterprise design strategy
• Preparedness
• Policy
• Resource and business management
• Corporate governance
• Reputation, brand management and heritage preservation
• Holistic workforce and cadet management
• Personnel well-being mechanisms and organisational culture.

The Head of Air Force Capability acts as the Air Force Capability Manager representative during modernisation and sustainment activities and provides strategic leadership of Air Force Headquarters in the following domains:

• Air and space enabling capability concepts
• Force structure requirements for Air Force
• IIP ^{[clarification needed]} management and affordable development of new capability systems
• Transition of new capabilities
• Joint logistics systems planning
• Capability workforce planning.

Key focus areas include:

• resources
• personnel
• force placement
• infrastructure
• future force considerations