ECC Fact Sheet Overview

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ECC is headquartered at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. It is a one-star
command comprised of nine contracting support brigades, 17 contracting
battalions, and 108 contracting teams that provide expeditionary contracting
support to Army and joint forces.
ECC utilizes best practices and expert-level oversight to provide warfighters
with premier contracting support. It accomplishes its global operational
missions with a professional workforce of more than 1,000 military and 800
civilians, foreign local nationals and contractors in service at more than 30
locations worldwide. ECC provides direct support across the full spectrum
of military operations to Army and joint warfighters and Department of
Defense organizations around the globe.
The Soldiers and civilians of ECC also provide contracting support to
activities and organizations supporting Soldiers and their families stationed
overseas on U.S. Army garrisons - assisting in keeping America’s Soldiers
and their families ready and resilient. ECC supports approximately 180
expeditionary missions in 52 countries each year. In fiscal year 2014, ECC
completed more than 29,000 contracting actions valued at more than $1.74
billion – providing effects-based contracting to its global customer base.
A combat multiplier, ECC’s unique command structure maintains the
capability to deploy anywhere in the world on short notice to provide
operational contract support planning, contract policy and oversight, contract
execution, contract administration and contract surveillance in support of
deployed forces. When designated as the lead service for contracting, ECC
can deploy its headquarters mission command capability to establish a Joint
Theater Support Contracting Command.
In 2015, ECC is deploying a CSB and two CBns to support Operation
Freedom’s Sentinel in Afghanistan and the transition of the contracting
mission from the U.S. Central Command Joint Theater Support Contracting
Command to the Army as the Lead Service for Contracting.
With a wealth of contracting expertise, ECC professionals are dedicated to
providing the highest quality contracting support to all of its customers,
whenever and wherever needed. The responsive contracting solutions and
oversight provided by the command serves as a force multiplier for keeping
the Army capable and ready for any mission requirement.
ECC executes mission command for seven contracting support brigades
aligned to support Army service component commands: the 408th CSB (U.S.
Army Central), 409th CSB (U.S. Army Europe), 410th CSB (U.S. Army
South), 411th CSB (U.S. Forces Korea), 412th CSB (U.S. Army North),
413th CSB (U.S. Army Pacific), and 414th CSB (U.S. Army Africa). Two
more CSBs, the 418th and 419th, are in direct support to III Corps and XVIII
Airborne Corps, respectively. Additionally, ECC executes direct mission
command of the 905th Contracting Battalion, Fort Bragg, North Carolina,
providing direct support to U.S. Army Special Operations Command.
Note: ACC integrates the majority of its stateside-based contracting units into its
installation and contracting center operations to grow experienced and technically
proficient contingency contracting officers to support global mission requirements.
Headquarters: ECC headquarters, Redstone Arsenal, Ala.
Contracting Support Brigades:
 408th Contracting Support Brigade, Shaw Air Force Base, S.C.
o Two contracting teams
 409th Contracting Support Brigade, Kaiserslautern, Germany
o 903rd Contracting Battalion, Kaiserslautern, Germany
o 928th Contracting Battalion, Grafenwoehr, Germany
o Nine contracting teams
 410th Contracting Support Brigade, Joint Base San Antonio-Fort
Sam Houston, Texas
o 916th Contracting Battalion, Joint Base San Antonio, Texas
o Six contracting teams
 411th Contracting Support Brigade, Camp Coiner, Korea
o 906th Contracting Battalion, Camp Coiner, Korea
o Six contracting teams
 413th Contracting Support Brigade, Fort Shafter, Hawaii
o Seven contracting teams
 414th Contracting Support Brigade, Vicenza, Italy
o Four contracting teams
One Direct Report Battalion:
 905th Contracting Battalion, Fort Bragg, N.C.
o One contracting team
ECC contracting units integrated into stateside operations:
 412th Contracting Support Brigade, Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston
o 904th Contracting Battalion, Fort Knox, Ky.
o Six contracting teams
 418th Contracting Support Brigade, Fort Hood, Texas
o 901st Contracting Battalion, Fort Hood, Texas
o 902nd Contracting Battalion, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash.
o 918th Contracting Battalion, Fort Carson, Colo.
o 919th Contracting Battalion, Fort Bliss, Texas
o Sixteen contracting teams
 419th Contracting Support Brigade, Fort Bragg, N.C.
o 900th Contracting Battalion, Fort Bragg, N.C.
o 922nd Contracting Battalion, Fort Campbell, Ky.
o 925th Contracting Battalion, Fort Drum, N.Y.
o Fourteen contracting teams
 926th Contracting Battalion under ACC-Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.
o Four contracting teams
 Four contracting teams under ACC-New Jersey, Picatinny Arsenal
 921st Contracting Battalion under ACC-Redstone, Ala.
o Four contracting teams
 920th Contingency Contracting Battalion under ACC-Rock Island, Ill.
o Four contracting teams
 923rd Contingency Contracting Battalion under ACC-Warren, Mich.
o Four contracting teams
 Sixteen contracting teams under the Field Directorate Office - Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va.,
part of Mission and Installation Contracting Command
 Three contracting teams under MICC-Fort Belvoir, Va.
As of February 2015
U.S. Army Africa
Command Sgt. Maj.
Jeffery Stitzel (with
black backpack) talks
with Armed Forces of
Liberia engineers as
they work on building
an Ebola treatment
unit in Tubmanburg,
Liberia. ECC
personnel provided
contracting support to
the U.S. Agency for
International
Development in the
efforts to contain the
Ebola virus outbreak
in West African
nations. (U.S. Army
Africa photo by Sgt.
1st Class Will
Patterson/Released)
The U.S. Army Expeditionary Contracting Command is a subordinate
command of the U.S. Army Contracting Command. ECC Soldiers,
civilians and contractors provide the Army with effective and agile
contracting support for U.S. Army service component commanders in
support of Army, joint, and installation operations outside the
continental United States. The command’s responsive, worldwide
contracting support acquires equipment, supplies and services vital to
Soldiers’ missions and well-being.