text: Engineer Planning
  Table 5-7. Capabilities and activities organized by engineer disciplines
  Combat Engineering
  Capabilities: Activities:
  • Organic engineer elements. • Conduct mobility.
  • Force pool. • Conduct countermobility.
  • Other. • Conduct survivability.
   Joint (Marines).
   Multinational.
   Host nation.
  General Engineering
  Capabilities: Activities:
  • Force pool. • Restore damaged areas.
  • USACE. • Restore essential services.
  • Other. • Construct and maintain sustainment
   Joint (Navy, Air Force). lines of communications.
   Multinational. • Provide engineer construction
  support (including support to combat
   Host nation.
  engineering activities).
   Interagency.
  • Supply mobile electric power.
   Contract.
  • Provide facilities engineer support.
  • Construct waste and distribution
  facilities.
  Geospatial Engineering
  Capabilities: Activities:
  • Organic engineer elements. • Conduct geospatial engineering and
  • Force pool. functions.
  • USACE field force engineering.
  • Other.
   Joint (Navy, Air Force,
  nongovernmental
  organizations).
   Multinational.
   Host nation.
   Interagency.
  Legend:
  USACE United States Army Corps of Engineers
  COORDINATION AND CONTROL
  A significant consideration for the integration of engineer capabilities is the task organization of
  engineer forces. Task organization includes allocating available engineer assets to subordinate commanders
  and establishing their command and support relationships. In some cases, engineer forces may be
  task-organized to subordinate nonengineer headquarters, such as when a Sapper company is attached to a
  BCT or when a clearance company placed OPCON to a MEB. In most cases, an engineer brigade or battalion
  headquarters provides the longer term C2 of tailored engineer forces and may be required at various echelons
  for the C2 of engineer operations at each level. The analysis of the mission variables, within the construct of
  the running estimate, helps determine the engineer task organization. ADP 3-0 describes command, support,
  and other relationships that may be established in the task organization. Table 5-8, page 5-28, summarizes
  the considerations for the three engineer headquarters elements available from the force pool to provide C2
  for engineer capabilities and missions.