2024/2025
USACE Response Options✔️✔️Forward Engineer Support Team-Advance (FEST-A) or
Reconnaissance Team (RT)
Advanced Echelon (ADVON) team
Contingency Engineer District (CED)
Reconnaissance Tasks✔️✔️Technical Reconnaissance (**General Engineers)
Infrastructure Survey
Environment Assessment
Airfield Assessment
Route Classification
Tactical Reconnaissance (**Combat Engineers)
Bridge Reconnaissance
Route Reconnaissance
Obstacle Reconnaissance
Reconnaissance vs. Classification✔️✔️Classification is done by General Engineers
Reconnaissance is done by Combat Engineers
SWEAT-MSO✔️✔️Sewage
Water
Electricity
Academics
Trash
Medical
Safety
, Other Considerations
MDMP and Construction Planning✔️✔️MDMP nests within construction planning and EN
requirements for sustainment
Project Origin/Routing✔️✔️Unit requests on a DA4283
Go to DPW for approval
Create list for troop construction requests
S3 syncs with DPW for project
Projects are picked and project packet are given; scope of work, site plan, and drawings
S3C produces construction directive, BOM, and Construct Activities
Project assigned to executing company
Definable Features of Work✔️✔️project supervisor identifies features of work during estimating
and scheduling process. "Task which is sperate and distinct from other tasks, has separate control
requirements, and may be identified by different trades or disciplines, or it may be work by the
same trade in a different environment"
For each definable feature of work✔️✔️Prep Phase: apply network analysis, scheduling,
estimating
Initial Phase: Choosing configuration, materials, equipment
Follow Up Phase: adherence to standard procedures
Completion Phase: (in doctrine - rework phase)
Quality Management (QM)✔️✔️consists of Quality Assurance and Quality Control activities
instituted to achieve the quality levels established by project plans and specifications or as
directed quality established by the contract requirements
Quality Control (QC)✔️✔️engineering unit's system in place during execution to manage, control,
and document the unit's activities in compliance with the project plans and specifications
requirements