Training Engineers With Industry

<p>Doctrine requires the Army to conduct full spectrum operations giving equal consideration to stability operations and Defense Support of Civil Authority (DSCA) with the traditional missions of offense and defense. This shift in doctrine among other things requires the Army to review its training and development to meet the new demands. U.S. Army Engineers have a major role in stability operations. The new doctrine requires engineers to conduct numerous technical tasks in support of stability operations. While these technical skills are not necessarily new to the Regiment they have not been emphasized in the recent past. The education training and development of technical skills were second to the tactical engineering skills required of the Regiment. The Engineer Regiment recognizes it lacks the competency to meet the challenges of the new doctrine and is developing a Building Great Engineers (BGE) campaign plan to address those challenges. This monograph examines some of the impacts of modifying doctrine to include stability operations and the capability gaps created by this change. Likewise the Engineer Regiment has stability operations tasks that they are unable to fully support and must develop the capacity to meet those requirements. Industry also plays a critical role in stability operations and that role must be leveraged for the Army the Engineer Regiment and the interagency to succeed. Training with industry (TWI) is an existing program the Army uses to expose its officers to technical and upper level managerial experience in fields that are not available in the military. TWI assigns officers to civilian industries to gain this experience and upon their return to the Army they implement those skills. The U.S. Army Engineer Regiment should leverage the existing TWI program to assist in developing the select technical skills of its field grade officers in certain stability operations tasks. While the overall impact of the program will be small in sc</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p>