text: Stability
  (cid:122) Restore telecommunications infrastructure.
  (cid:122) Support general infrastructure reconstruction programs.
  8-105. The BCT’s support to economic and infrastructure development varies over the range of military
  operations and area of operations but the principles of conflict transformation, unity of effort, legitimacy and
  host nation ownership, and building partner capacity are enduring throughout all phases.
  INITIAL RESPONSE
  8-106. The BCT supports economic and infrastructure development at the local level during the initial
  response phase by establishing areas of operation, and task organizing and empowering its subordinate units
  by allowing them to coordinate with unified action partners. The BCT synchronizes efforts regionally and
  shifts assets and resources as main efforts change or as opportunity to exploit the initiative arise. The building
  blocks for broad national recovery and development are set at the local-level and the BCT’s information
  collection effort should focus on identifying microeconomic information such as changes in cost of a
  commodity, number of unemployed males 15 to 45 years of age, changes in costs of services such as medical
  treatment, and so forth. Although the BCT maintains responsibility for security, secondary efforts will include
  facilitating the emergence of employment opportunities, infusing monetary resources into the local economy,
  stimulating market activity, fostering recovery through microeconomics, and supporting the restoration of
  physical infrastructure to help retain and exploit the initiative.
  8-107. The BCT may have to take the lead in responding to immediate economic needs, including assessing
  the critical micro-and macro-economic conditions, during the initial response phase. These economic needs
  include ensuring host-nation civilians can bring agricultural products and other goods to safe and secure
  marketplaces, generating jobs that can be filled with qualified laborers, and others. Unity of effort is essential
  for the BCT to identify and engage all relevant actors from the host nation, U.S. civil agencies, and
  international organizations. These evolving partnerships and assessments will significantly enhance the
  economic development management transition tasks from the BCT to the U.S. Government civil agencies
  and host-nation actors. Hostile individuals and groups can take advantage of gaps if the actors do not engage,
  and exploit opportunities for profit, contributing to long-term instability.
  8-108. Infrastructure reconnaissance is a multidiscipline variant of reconnaissance to collect detailed
  technical information on various categories of the public systems, services, and facilities of a country or
  region. The infrastructure reconnaissance develops the situational understanding of the local capability to
  support the infrastructure requirements of the local populace or military operations within a specific area.
  Infrastructure reconnaissance is accomplished in stages: the infrastructure assessment and the infrastructure
  survey. (See ATP 3-34.81 for additional information.)
  8-109. Coordinating with the combat engineer units for an on-site visit, an engineer reconnaissance team
  can be expected to conduct the initial assessment with available expertise from the supported unit. The initial
  assessment provides information to confirm or deny planning assumptions, update running estimates/staff
  estimates, determine immediate needs, develop priorities, obtain resources, and refine a plan. As operations
  continue, general engineer and other supporting technical support elements provide teams that are qualified
  to perform an infrastructure survey. These infrastructure survey teams use the infrastructure assessments
  from the engineer reconnaissance teams to prioritize categories and identify those parts of the infrastructure
  to be reassessed in more detail. Technical capabilities required to perform a comprehensive reconnaissance
  include robust support from joint Service, multiagency, contractor, host nation, multinational, and reachback
  elements.
  TRANSFORMATION
  8-110. The goal of the transformation phase is to establish firmly the foundation for sustainable economic
  development and to begin to transition control of economic development to U.S. Government civil agencies,
  international civil agencies, and host nation economic officials and entrepreneurs. The collective emphasis is
  on establishing host nation institutions providing sustainable economic growth during this phase. Once a
  civilian administration assumes control, the primary economic development role of the BCT is to advise and
  assist local leaders.