408th Contracting Support Brigade | |
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Country | United States |
Allegiance | United States Army |
Type | Combat service support unit |
Role | Arranging Contracts |
Part of | U.S. Army Materiel Command - Army Contracting Command (ACC) |
Garrison/HQ | Camp Arifjan, Kuwait/ Shaw AFB, South Carolina |
Nickname(s) | 408th CSB |
Motto(s) | "CONFERRE AB CONFIRMATUS" (Focused and Determined) [1] |
Website | ACC Homepage |
Commanders | |
Current commander | Colonel Anthony Hughley |
Insignia | |
Distinctive unit insignia |
The 408th Contracting Support Brigade is a contracting support unit in the United States Army with headquarters at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait and Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina. It is a unit in the United States Army Contracting Command.
The brigade provides operational contracting support to United States Army Central (USARCENT) as the Lead Contract Service throughout Southwest Asia. The brigade prepares and coordinates support plans, provides oversight, assessment, policy and acquisition authority to assigned contingency contracting organizations and contracting assets deployed in support of the USARCENT mission. [2]
Commander | Date assumed command |
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Colonel Joseph L. Bass | June 29, 2007 |
Colonel Shane Dietrich | June 6, 2008 [3] |
Colonel Michael J. Rogers | June 25, 2010 [4] |
Colonel David Kaczmarski | June 20, 2012 [5] |
Colonel Phillip E. Smallwood | TBD |
Colonel Michelle Sanner | June 15, 2016 [6] |
Colonel Kim Thomas | June 19, 2017 [7] |
Colonel Ralph T. Borja | June 22, 2018 [8] |
Colonel Mary O.B. Drayton | June 27, 2019 [9] |
Colonel Richard H. Pfeiffer, Jr. | June 26, 2020 [10] |
Colonel Anthony Hughley | June 30, 2021 [11] |
Colonel Justin DeArmond | July 15, 2022 [12] |
Colonel Barry Williams | July 7, 2023 [13] |
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