TAD-KU also assists Area Support Group (ASG) – Kuwait (KU) with engineer support by creating building and constructions plans, to include wiring diagrams among other specifications, and performing inspections of the construction facilities on Camp Arifjan, Camp Buehring, the Kuwaiti Navy Base (KNB), and other U.S. facilities in Kuwait. TAD-KU also assists ASG-KU in the areas of real estate, contracting, and environmental matters.
TRANSATLANTIC AFGHANISTAN DISTRICT Attn: Bagram Airfield • APO AE 09354 Tel: (540) 678-2975
Center, in Winchester, Virginia; the Transatlantic Afghanistan (TAA) District in Kabul, Afghanistan; and the TAD Forward Operational Command Post (OCP) at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait. The Division, its two Districts and the Forward OCP deliver high-intensity engineer capabilities for all of USCENTCOM providing USACE’s expertise in overseas contingency operations. USACE designated TAM as its worldwide Center of Standardization for Contingency Standard Designs and the Technical Center of Expertise for Aircraft Hangar Fire Protection. TAM supports USACE military construction and interagency and international programs while providing maximum reach back support to TAA. TAA continues Afghanistan reconstruction efforts and promotes infrastructure development while conducting project management, construction, and engineering to help establish a secure, stable environment and supports deployed coalition forces and other government agencies. TAD established a Forward OCP in Kuwait in 2015 with a mission to provide USCENTCOM and U.S. Army Central Command (USARCENT) with technical expertise in engineering and capabilities to anticipate and plan for future requirements while providing administrative and logistical support for USACE sourced teams across USCENTCOM in support of Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR).
TRANSATLANTIC DIVISION-KUWAIT (TAD-KU) Attn: Camp Arifjan • APO AE 09366 Tel: (540) 667-3173 The Transatlantic Division (TAD) -Kuwait (KU) forward Operational Command Post (OCP) officially stood up in May 2015 and is the Transatlantic Division’s newest outpost with an office at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait. TAD-KU’s mission is to provide liaison capability, technical engineering expertise, and planning capability to anticipate future requirements to U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) and U.S. Army Central Command (USARCENT) in support of Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) while providing administrative and logistical support for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) sourced teams across the 20 countries in USCENTCOM’s area of responsibility (AOR). TAD-KU is USACE’s forward asset sharing and coordinating their engineering expertise for overseas contingency operations. 106
MIDDLE EAST DISTRICT P.O. Box 2250 • Winchester, VA 22604-1450 Tel: (540) 665-4085 USACE has worked in the Middle East for more than six decades. In the mid-1970s, USACE established a stateside organization near Winchester, Virginia, to support operations in Saudi Arabia. Over the next decade, USACE expanded its engineering services to other areas of the Middle East and Africa, concurrently changing its organizational structure and location to meet U.S. national security requirements. Today the Middle East District is a subordinate element of the Transatlantic Division and still provides skilled engineering and
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Transatlantic Afghanistan District
Established first as an area office and subsequently in 2004 as a district, the USACE Afghanistan Engineer District (AED) later split into two districts, AED-North in Kabul and AED-South in Kandahar. Since 2002, USACE has completed more than $11 billion in construction in Afghanistan, mostly building facilities for the Afghan National Security Forces. In July 2013, the two districts were inactivated and the Transatlantic Afghanistan District (TAA) was activated. The USACE mission in Afghanistan is to conduct project management, construction, and engineering to help establish a secure, stable environment and promote construction and infrastructure development. USACE has supported coalition forces participating in Operation Enduring Freedom since 2002, and the first USACE district in Afghanistan, AED-North, was established in March 2004. AED-South was activated in summer 2009. In support of coalition forces, TAA provides facilities to support bed-down, administration, and base operations in various locations around Afghanistan to include Bagram, Kandahar, and Kabul. The district works with the Resolute Support, (RS), Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan (CSTC-A), U.S. Forces Command-Afghanistan (USFOR-A), Commander’s Emergency Response Program, USAID, donor nations, and agencies to complete projects that will have the most significant impacts toward building partner capacity and managing transitions. Projects include infrastructure, military and university facilities such as the Afghanistan National Defense University, the Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Defense headquarters’ buildings. The district has completed a significant number of headquarters, maintenance buildings, fire stations, and power plants. TAA continues to execute construction while supporting deconstruction, drawdown, and the retrograde mission of coalition forces from Afghanistan.