Combat service support to the Future Engineer Force: a modular approach.

By now, almost everyone in the Army has heard of the terms modularity and expeditionary. Most of the uncommitted Army (not currently deployed or preparing to deploy in support of the Global War on Terrorism) is consumed with transforming its Cold War formations into brigade combat teams (BCTs), units of employment (UEs), and support brigades. As the Army moves along its transformation path, a fundamental change in how these new organizations are supported will be required if they are to be truly modular and expeditionary. The concept of modularity is predicated on units that are flexible and agile: scalable formations that can be mission-tailored for specific operations. For these units to be sustainable, a new modular approach to combat …