Air Force Manpower Agency Established as the Air Force Management Engineering Agency, and activated as a separate operating agency, on November 1, 1975. Assigned as a subordinate unit of the Air Force Manpower and Personnel Center, losing separate operating agency status, on June 30, 1978. Regained separate operating agency status on March 1, 1985. Effective February 5, 1991, status changed to a field operating agency. Redesignated: Air Force Center for Quality and Management Innovation on December 19, 1996; Air Force Manpower and Innovation Agency on September 1, 1999.