This two-in one resource includes the Tactical Commanders and Staff Toolkit plus the Liaison Officer Toolkit. Defense Support of Civil Authorities (DSCA)) enables tactical level Commanders and their Staffs to properly plan and execute assigned DSCA missions for all hazard operations, excluding Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, high yield Explosives (CBRNE) or acts of terrorism. Applies to all United States military forces, including Department of Defense (DOD) components (Active and Reserve forces and National Guard when in Federal Status). This hand-on resource also may be useful information for local and state first responders. Chapter 1 contains background information relative to Defense Support of Civil Authorities (DSCA) including legal, doctinal, and policy issues. Chapter 2 provides an overview of the incident management processes including National Response Framework (NRF), National Incident Management Systems (NIMS), and Incident Command System (ICS) as well as Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Chapter 3 discuses the civilian and military responses to natural disaster. Chapter 4 provides a brief overview of Joint Operation Planning Process and mission analyis. Chapter 5 covers Defense Support of Civilian Authorities (DSCA) planning factors for response to all hazard events. Chapter 6 is review of safety and operational composite risk management processes Chapters 7-11 contain Concepts of Operation (CONOPS) and details five natrual hazards/disasters and the pertinent planning factors for each within the scope of DSCA.
Army Techniques Publication ATP 3-34.40 (FM 3-34.400) MCWP 3-17.7 General Engineering February 2015 General Engineering provides doctrine for the conduct of GE support by the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps. It emphasizes the GE unity of effort by providing a common philosophy, language, and purpose. GE is a joint function and a U.S. Army discipline. This manual discusses how GE enables commanders to achieve their objectives in supporting joint and U.S. Army operations. This publication also introduces subordinate doctrine. This revision of the December 2008, Army-only FM 3-34.400 (now obsolete) makes this manual a multi-Service publication with the U.S. Marine Corps. This manual builds on the collective knowledge, wisdom, and military expertise gained through recent operations, numerous lessons learned, and doctrine revisions. This doctrine has also been adjusted to reduce the duplication of technical detail already contained in the referenced subordinate manuals. This publication describes how engineer commanders, staffs, and subordinate leaders conduct GE to support U.S. Army and Marine forces within the framework of joint operations.
The United States is transitioning from an industrial age to an information age military. This transition requires transformation in warfighting and the way we organize to support the warfighter. Although the end-state of transformation cannot be fully defined in advance, we do know some of the necessary prerequisites for transformation. In particular, we know that early transformation requires exploiting information technology to reform defense business practices and to create new combinations of capabilities, operating concepts, organizational relationships and training regimes. Successful transformation of U.S. military forces and Department of Defense (DoD) processes requires a strategy with clear objectives. Effective implementation of the strategy requires commitment and attention from the Department's senior leadership and clearly assigned roles and responsibilities. This document communicates the Department's strategy for transformation and assigns senior leader roles and responsibilities to ensure implementation of the strategy. Senior leadership commitment to transformation will mobilize the rest of the Department and stimulate the bottom-up innovation required for successful transformation. Effective implementation of the transformation strategy is an essential prerequisite for strategic management of the Defense program. It will allow the Department to define transformation investments that address future risk with enough specificity that they can be balanced against the other three primary risk areas identified in the Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR): force management, operational, and institutional risk.
Army Techniques Publication ATP 3-34.40 MCWP 3-17.7 General Engineering provides doctrine for the conduct of GE support by the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps. It emphasizes the GE unity of effort by providing a common philosophy, language, and purpose. GE is a joint function and a U.S. Army discipline. This manual discusses how GE enables commanders to achieve their objectives in supporting joint and U.S. Army operations. This publication also introduces subordinate doctrine. This publication describes how engineer commanders, staffs, and subordinate leaders conduct GE to support Army and Marine forces within the framework of joint operations. Additional considerations for engineer operations in coalition operations are reviewed in Allied Joint Publication 3-12 Allied Joint Doctrine for Joint Engineering and Allied Tactical Publication -52 Edition B, Land Force Combat Engineer Doctrine. Chapter 1 discusses GE as a joint and U.S. Marine Corps engineer function and a U.S. Army engineer discipline. It introduces the new GE life cycle activities of planning, design, construction, operation, maintenance, transfer, and closure that are used to frame the discussion in other chapters. It then discusses employment considerations for GE. Chapter 2 describes GE support across the range of military operations at theater, operational, and tactical levels. Chapter 3 provides an overview of GE planning and design that is discussed in detail within other chapters. Chapter 4 discusses construction and introduces multi-Service doctrine on project management and estimating. This chapter discusses methods of construction and construction material procurement and production. It adds the framework of construction techniques that are discussed in numerous subordinate technical manuals. Chapter 5 provides an overview of seaports. Seaports could be used for deployment and redeployment as a seaport of debarkation or as a seaport of embarkation. It includes a discussion on planning and design, construction, operation, maintenance, and logistics over-the-shore (LOTS) support. Chapter 6 provides an overview of airfields and heliports aligned with revised subordinate doctrine to include planning and design, construction, operation, and maintenance. Chapter 7 provides an overview of roads and railroads aligned with revised subordinate doctrine to include planning and design, construction, operation, and maintenance. Chapter 8 discusses an overview of bridging to include bridge types, planning and design, construction, operation, and maintenance. Chapter 9 merges discussion of base camps and bed-down facilities that includes support area facilities. It discusses a GE overview of base camps. It also includes base camp responsibilities, Service capabilities, planning and design, standards, site layout, and construction. Chapter 10 discusses real estate and provides an overview of real property maintenance that is covered in detail within the other chapters of this manual. It deletes the use of the term real property maintenance activities and only discusses real property maintenance. Chapter 11 discusses electrical power systems and design considerations for reliability, efficiency, and scalability. It also discusses the emerging requirements to store electricity and incorporate renewable sources of energy. It provides an overview of Service capabilities and electrical safety requirements. Chapter 12 discusses GE support to the sustainment/combat service support water functions of production and distribution. The chapter discusses well drilling and includes water production and distribution responsibilities, planning and design, Service capabilities, employment, and operations. It expands discussion on water distribution within facilities as a plumbing task. The GE doctrine provided in this manual presents an overview of a wide range of topics and allows the reader to understand how the topics fit together.
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Army Techniques Publication ATP 3-34.81 MCWP 3-17.4 Engineer Reconnaissance MARCH 2016 United States Government US Army provides techniques for the performance of tactical and technical engineer reconnaissance in support of military activities that are conducted across the full range of military operations. This publication supports doctrine found in ADP 3-0, FM 3-34, ADRP 5-0, and ADRP 6-0. This publication supersedes FM 3-34.170/MCWP 3-17.4. The engineer contribution to operational success is highly desired by the commander. Demands for engineer reconnaissance support will often exceed capabilities. These capabilities are spread thin, and they compete with the commander's needs for other engineer applications. The same engineer elements and capabilities are often required for each of these areas. Resolution of these competing priorities is one of the goals of the planning process. The staff-running estimate is created during mission analysis, and the engineer staff planner identifies the specified and implied engineer tasks (more than M/CM/S) and their associated purposes
This publication, Army Techniques Publication ATP 3-34.23 Engineer Operations - Echelons Above Brigade Combat Team June 2015, describes engineer operations at echelons above brigade (EAB) combat team level. It is the doctrinal manual for engineer support to division, corps, and theater Army echelons. This manual is an extension of FM 3-34 and is linked to joint and Army doctrine to ensure that it is useful for operational commanders and staffs. This manual serves as a guide for the application of engineer combat power and the employment of engineer forces in support of decisive action primarily at higher echelons and within a joint framework. The principal audience for ATP 3-34.23 is engineer commanders and trainers at higher echelons. This manual forms the foundation for the engineer curriculum contained in the engineer portions of the Army Education System. The information contained in this manual will assist multinational forces and other Services and branches of the Army in planning and integrating engineer capabilities. This manual will also assist Army branch schools in teaching the integration of engineer capabilities into Army and joint operations. This manual describes the engineer operations integrated through the warfighting functions in a combined arms application of combat power. It describes the engineer capabilities available to commanders and provides information for force-tailoring these capabilities at higher echelons to ensure synchronization throughout the operations process and across the range of military operations. It discusses the foundation of engineer operations to ensure integration at each echelon and develops considerations for engineer operations within the operations process, tailored organization, range of military operations, and headquarters configuration unique to the division, corps, and theater Army echelons. This manual emphasizes the simultaneous combination of offensive, defensive, and stability or defense support of civil authorities (DSCA) tasks. It describes engineer support to Army forces conducting decisive action within the framework of joint operations. It also addresses the engineer roles and functions with unified action partners (potentially under multinational or interagency leadership) and within diverse command relationships. The manual is organized into 5 chapters and 3 appendixes that provide additional details on selected operational topics. A brief description of each chapter is below: Chapter 1 describes the engineer view of the operational environment as it pertains to operations at EAB combat team. It describes the forces and capabilities available (including unified action partners) and addresses the tailoring of engineer force pool capabilities in support of engineer operations. Chapter 2 lays the foundation for engineer operations at EAB. It focuses on integration at each echelon and throughout the operations process. It discusses the engineer staff by echelon, capabilities within the engineer disciplines, and synchronized application of these capabilities through the warfighting functions. Chapter 3 describes engineer operations at the theater echelon. It discusses integration into the theater Army design methods, force-tailoring considerations at the theater echelon, and engineer support in each of the operational configurations described for a theater Army headquarters. Chapter 4 describes engineer operations at the corps echelon. It discusses integration into the corps operations processes, force-tailoring considerations, decisive action at the corps echelon, and engineer support in each of the operational configurations described for a corps headquarters. Chapter 5 describes engineer operations at the division echelon. It discusses integration into division operations processes, force-tailoring considerations, decisive action at the division echelon, and engineer support in each of the operational configurations described for a division headquarters.
