Mr. Phil Ball is the Chief of the Enterprise Analysis Branch in the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) Logistics Home Office, Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC), Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.  He is responsible for providing AFLCMC enterprise-level analysis for AF senior leaders.  Mr. Ball leads a government and contract team in developing “big data” tools and analysis to aid decisions across AFLCMC.  

Mr. Ball chairs a Joint Product Support Analysis Working Group (JPSAWG) with Operations Research Analysts from across the Air Force to include AF/A9, AFMC/A9, MAJCOM/A9s, and 5 AFMC Centers.  The JPSAWG collaborates on analysis projects and shares data and analytical tools to enable AF senior leaders to make more informed, data-based decisions.

Mr. Ball entered federal service in 1993 at Wright-Patterson AFB, as a PALACE Acquire—the Air Forces’ 2-4 year intern program.  He worked 11 years in HQ AFMC, performing a broad-range of depot maintenance management positions before being selected for reassignment to the Air Force Fleet Viability Board, Headquarters Air Force.  In this position, as the Lead Logistician, he assessed aging weapon systems for the Secretary of the Air Force to facilitate sustainment or recapitalization decisions.  After a 1-year tour in the Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Sensors & FMS Program Office as the Deputy Chief of Logistics, Mr. Ball returned to HQ AFMC for a short-time before the AFMC 5-Center Construct re-organization re-aligned his Maintenance Modernization & Investment Branch to the Air Force Sustainment Center.  There he continued as the Branch Chief for a short-time before becoming the Maintenance and Supply Support, Deputy Division Chief until he transitioned to his second acquisition assignment in the KC-46 Program.  In the KC-46, he was responsible for standing-up organic depot maintenance capability for the airframe, commodities, software, and engines; managing a $1.27B depot activation budget.