Mission Brief
ContingencyContracting
A field desk for CCOs heading into deployed, austere, or rapid-response environments. The mission is still acquisition. The timeline is compressed, the facts move fast, and the file has to survive the trip home.
Operational Contract Support
The framework that ties contract support to the operation. Learn the doctrine, then learn how it hits your desk.
OCS for Dummies (Part 1)
A no-nonsense walkthrough of Operational Contract Support, from the three pillars to joint theater contracting constructs.
OCS for Dummies (Part 2)
The work that moves across the room once Part 1's pieces are in place: BOS, the JRRB explained no-shit, Annex W products (CSSM, CSOR, CMP), contractor management and SPOT/LOA, and the handoff your replacement actually needs.
AFCAP Vehicle Brief
The Air Force Contract Augmentation Program explained as a role-based training lane: what fits, who owns the requirement, how task-order work moves, and why PAR/CAR documentation matters.
AFCAP Volume II
A day in the life of an AFCAP ACO, first 30 days checklist, intake package training, task-order execution, UCA guardrails, modifications, EAs, invoices, and file discipline.
Authorities & Field Buying
The rules, flexibilities, forms, and buying methods that separate contingency work from normal garrison acquisition.
Letter Contracts
Authorize urgent performance before final terms are negotiated. Covers the not-to-exceed posture, definitization discipline, and when the mission timing justifies moving before the final contract is done.
Raised Thresholds
The MPT, SAT, and commercial procedure ceiling can move under the right declaration. This lane keeps the CONUS/OCONUS split, declaration basis, and documentation trail straight.
ACSAs
Acquisition and Cross-Servicing Agreements are not normal FAR contracts, but they matter fast in coalition operations. Know when to route support through ACSA channels and what must be recorded.
Stafford Act Declarations
Major disaster and emergency declarations can unlock acquisition flexibilities, including affected-area business preferences. The trick is knowing what the declaration actually authorizes.
SF 44 Purchases
When the SF 44 is the right tool, what authority backs it (RFO Part 12 / DoD class deviation), how to fill it out cleanly under pressure, and how to carry the paperwork trail back to the contracting office. Includes a paper-vs-3-in-1 take from the desk.
Manual Contracts Deployed
Contract writing when systems are down, local vendors are moving fast, and the file still needs enough structure to be defensible.
Purchasing Food and Water in a Contingency
Source-priority waterfall (AFCAP, DLA Troop Support, vetted local purchase, operational rations), veterinary food-protection approval, bulk-water surveillance, and the file evidence a subsistence buy needs before anyone eats or drinks.
Establishing DoDAACs
Plain-language route through the DoDAAD Central Service Points: how to get an activity DoDAAC stood up before you fly, what it unlocks (contract writing, EDA, WAWF), the NAF/AFCENT fallback if you can't, and why customers and finance need one too. Tuned for the 2026 Iran / SOUTHCOM stand-ups.
MIPRs in a Deployed Environment
Another agency sending you money for contracting support. The plain-and-simple framing, direct citation vs reimbursable in practical terms, when to advocate for each (contract vs cash/GPC), and how the DD 448-2 acceptance actually gets filled out from the receiving CCO's desk.
Roles & Appointments
Who can buy, who can receive, who can approve, and what their appointment letters actually let them do.