rica (CJTF-HOA) signs into the same portal and sees these
RFIs, prioritizes them, and categorizes them based off FxSP
specialty areas.
Ten days later back in the CONUS during a regularly
scheduled battle assembly (BA) weekend at 353rd Civil Affairs Command (CACOM), a unit assigned to the United
States Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations
Command (USACAPOC), several part time TPU USAR
Soldiers assigned to the units FxSP see these same RFI in
the digital portal. One of these soldiers is a veterinarian
in his civilian profession while another works for the U.S.
Department of Education. Since they don’t have a SME in
their FxSP infrastructure section with the necessary skills
to answer the public works water distribution RFI, they
run a quick portal query and identify a soldier in a subordinate BDE who has a graduate degree in water system
management and forward him the RFI. These SME all reply
to these RFI with recommendations on how to solve these
varied civil sect or challenges.
Several days pass and the CA staff officer back at CJTFHOA screens the SME reply’s and forwards the recommendations back to AMISOM battle group HQs in Mogadishu.
Shortly thereafter a local veterinary officer orders the right
medication to treat the goats, the water plant manager orders the right pumps to improve agricultural water distribution, and the school administrator learns of a United States
Agency for International Development (USAID) funded
education administration training program. The end state
is SME are able to support the COCOM and rapidly bring
relevant recommendations to coalition partners that directly
impacts their ability to build civil component capacity and
defeat violent extremist organizations. Most importantly,
this occurred in a time of fiscal constraint without having
to set additional boots on the ground or spend a dollar in
operational contingency funds.
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