text: Chapter 6
  OTHER CAPABILITIES
  With augmentation from other Services, the theater army can provide a JTF headquarters for
  contingencies. Other situations may generate requirements for individual augmentation within the theater
  army or a subordinate echelon headquarters. Similarly, the situation may require the tailoring of individual
  augmentees for a provisional headquarters or provisional teams. The GCC supports the theater army with
  joint individual augmentees, as available, through its standing joint force headquarters. As requirements
  exceed the GCC capabilities, they are passed to joint force providers. The Army provides individual
  augmentees through its worldwide individual augmentee system. This augmentation could be uniformed
  from any service or civilians from across the Department of Defense through the expeditionary civilian
  workforce program.
  Commanders may use an operational-needs statement to document an urgent need for a material
  solution to correct a deficiency or to improve a capability that impacts mission accomplishment. The
  operational-needs statement provides an opportunity for the field commander, outside of the acquisition and
  combat development and training development communities, to initiate the requirements determination
  process. A response to the operational-needs statement varies depending on the criticality of the proposed
  item. Response can range from a headquarters, DA-directed requirement and fielding of a material system to
  the forwarding of the action to the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command for review and
  routine action. The theater army engineer staff may become involved in the reviewing and processing of
  engineer-related statements as part of the theater army echelon administrative control responsibilities.
  Examples of engineer-related operational needs may include bridging or construction equipment, explosive
  hazards clearance improvements, and other nonstandard capabilities. See AR 71-9 for more information on
  processing operational-needs statements.
  Engineers supporting the theater army should understand contingency construction authorities and
  associated funding to meet construction requirements and activities in support of contingency operations.
  The USACE LNO at the theater army echelon can advise engineer planners on contract construction and the
  integration of these assets. Although USACE engineer districts and other contract construction elements are
  cost-reimbursable, their missions support the campaign plan of the theater army. At the theater level, a joint
  program integration office is included in the theater engineer cell to ensure the coordination and integration
  of DOD, interagency, and coalition construction missions throughout the theater.
  Theater army echelon engineer missions are conducted considering the range of military operations
  occurring throughout the theater. The theater army engineer staff routinely coordinates construction activities
  that assist the GCC in shaping the security environment in a particular region while maintaining presence
  within the AO. The engineer staff may also participate in exercise programs within a particular AO as a tool
  to maintain presence and to foster strong military-to-military cooperation. USACE and other unified action
  partners are strategically engaged worldwide in activities that promote national security objectives by
  improving HN infrastructure (such as products of the exercise-related construction program, Humanitarian
  and Civic Assistance Program, and Support for Others Program). Each theater army USACE LNO, TEC
  LNO, and joint program integration office assists in coordinating these activities with the senior engineer
  staff organization.
  The theater army engineer staff coordinates for the engineer support required for limited intervention
  operations. Support may include tailored engineer forces and the application of a variety of joint and other
  engineer capabilities. The theater army LNO from the USACE or TEC may assist in integrating USACE and
  unified action partner activities that support operational objectives. Engineers are critical enablers in foreign
  humanitarian assistance that is conducted to relieve or reduce the results of natural or man-made disasters.
  The engineer response may include—
  * Erecting temporary shelters and clinics.
  * Providing emergency power generation.
  * Removing debris.
  * Performing temporary construction to reinforce weakened superstructures.
  * Reestablishing transportation right-of-ways.
  * Constructing protective structures.
  * Constructing levees to contain rising floodwaters.