THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1775
Headquarters
Department of the Army
Washington, DC
9 May 2024

*Army Regulation 690–11

Effective 9 June 2024

Civilian Personnel

Department of the Army Expeditionary Civilians

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

RANDY A. GEORGE

General, United States Army

Chief of Staff

MARK F. AVERILL

Administrative Assistant to the

Secretary of the Army

History. This publication is a major revision. The portions affected by this major revision are listed in the summary of change.

Authorities. This regulation implements provisions of Section 1580, Title 10, United States Code and DTM-17-004.

Applicability. This regulation applies to the Regular Army, the Army National Guard/Army National Guard of the United States, and the U.S. Army Reserve, unless otherwise stated. It is applicable to all Department of the Army Civilians.

Proponent and exception authority. The proponent of this regulation is the Deputy Chief of Staff, G-1. The proponent has the authority to approve exceptions or waivers to this regulation that are consistent with controlling law and regulations. The proponent may delegate this approval authority in writing, to a division chief within the proponent agency or its direct reporting unit or field operating agency, in the grade of colonel or the civilian equivalent. Activities may request a waiver to this regulation by providing justification that includes a full analysis of the expected benefits and must include formal review by the activity's senior legal officer. All waiver requests must be endorsed by the commander or senior leader of the requesting activity and forwarded through their higher headquarters to the policy proponent. Refer to AR 25-30 for specific requirements.

Army internal control process. This regulation contains internal control provisions in accordance with AR 11-2 and identifies key internal controls that must be evaluated (appendix B).

Suggested improvements. Users are invited to send comments and suggested improvements on DA FormDA FormDepartment of the Army form 2028 (Recommended Changes to Publications and Blank Forms) directly to usarmy.in.hqda.list.aecw-ss@army.mil.

Distribution. This regulation is available in electronic media only and is intended for the Regular Army, the Army National Guard/Army National Guard of the United States, and the U.S. Army Reserve.

*This regulation supersedes AR 690–11, dated 25 January 2023.

AR 690–11 • 9 May 2024

UNCLASSIFIED

Army Disaster Personnel Accountability and Assessment System Standardized method for the Army to account, assess, manage, and monitor the recovery process for personnel and their families affected and/or scattered by a wide-spread catastrophic event. ADPAAS pro- vides valuable information to all levels of the Army chain of command, allowing commanders to make strategic decisions which facilitate a return to stability.

Army Expeditionary Civilian Workforce Directorate A directorate that is subordinate to the DCSDCSDeputy Chief of Staff, G–3/5/7, G – 1, responsible for the strategic direction and execution of the Army’s support to expeditionary missions utilizing civilian personnel.

Capability-based volunteer An employee who may be asked to volunteer for deployment and has been approved by the chain of command to support critical requirements of the DoD Expeditionary Civilian Workforce. Such require- ments could be overseas or at other locations away from the normal place of duty, in a combat, contin- gency, emergency, or disaster operations as defined in DTM – 17 – 004.

Civilian casualty Any civilian employee who is lost to the organization by having been declared dead, EAWUN, missing, injured, or ill.

Combat zone In accordance with 26 USCUSCUnited States Code 112(c)(2), any area which the President of the United States by Executive Or- der designates as an area in which Armed Forces of the United States are or have engaged in combat.

Contingency operation A military operation that: a . Is designated by the Secretary of Defense as an operation in which members of the armed forces are or may become involved in military actions, operations, or hostilities against an enemy of the United States or against an opposing military force; or b . Results in the call or order to, or retention on, active duty of members of the uniformed services under 10 USCUSCUnited States Code 688, 10 USCUSCUnited States Code 12301(a), 10 USCUSCUnited States Code 12302, 10 USCUSCUnited States Code 12304, 10 USCUSCUnited States Code 12406, or 10 USCUSCUnited States Code Chapter 15, or any other provision of law during a war or during a national emergency declared by the President or Congress.

Contingency plan A branch of a campaign plan that is planned based on hypothetical situations for designated threats, cata- strophic events, and contingent missions outside of crisis conditions.

Demand signal A set of CCMD requirements used as a planning document, determined by CCMD historic, current, and projected requirements, plus an additional percentage factor to account for unforeseen contingencies. The demand signal sets expectations to facilitate future planning and is updated on an annual basis through the GFM process.

Department of Defense Civilian employee (Includes DA Civilian employees.) An individual meeting the definition of “employee” under 5 USCUSCUnited States Code 2105, as well as employees of DoD NAFNAFNonappropriated fund(s) instrumentalities paid for from NAFs. This includes DoD Civilian em- ployees filling full-time, part-time, intermittent, or on-call positions. Excludes dual status National Guard and Reserve technicians and contractor employees.

Department of Defense Expeditionary Civilians DoD Civilians (includes DA Civilians) who provide essential capabilities at their assigned station, to in- clude situations in which other civilians have evacuated, or while deployed away from their assigned sta- tion resulting from their E – E, NCE, or CBV designations, and who are prepared, trained, cleared, equipped, and ready to deploy in support of combat operations by the military, contingency operations, emergency operations, humanitarian missions, disaster relief, restoration of order, drug interdiction, and stability operations of the DoD.

Department of Defense Foreign Clearance Guide Data system hosted by DoD and accessible to DoD users via.mil and.gov networks, and via internet to authorized non-DoD users with an Aircraft and Personnel Automated Clearance System account. The guide includes instructions and pertinent information that is necessary to ensure DoD aircraft and person- nel comply with United States government, theater command, and foreign national government require- ments when operating in foreign national airspace or territory.

Department of the Army Expeditionary Civilians DA Civilians who provide essential capabilities at their assigned station, to include situations in which other civilians have evacuated, or while deployed away from their assigned station resulting from their E – E, NCE, or CBV designations, and who are prepared, trained, cleared, equipped, and ready to deploy in support of combat operations by the military, contingency operations, emergency operations, humani- tarian missions, disaster relief, restoration of order, drug interdiction, and stability operations of the DoD. In addition, DA–ECs deploy to support other geographic CCDRCCDRCombatant commanders and theater Army commander priority missions. These additional missions can include security assistance, security cooperation, set the theater operations, and exercise participation. DA–ECs include DA Civilians that deploy to fill AECW Directorate sponsored mission assignments, those embedded in deployable units that deploy with their assigned unit, and those that deploy away from their assigned PDS as individuals or in teams to perform duties associ- ated with their assigned organization’s mission.

Deployment Either temporary reassignment greater than 30 days or the requirement to stay in place more than 30 days to support expeditionary operations.

Deployment coordinators Personnel tasked to provide administrative support and coordination between deploying civilians, their PDS organization, supported organizations, and the AECW Directorate.

Emergency-essential position A position-based designation to support the success of combat operations or the availability of combat essential systems in accordance with 10 USCUSCUnited States Code 1580.

Excused absence–whereabouts unknown An administrative status, applicable only to civilian personnel that is used when the responsible com- mander suspects the employee may be a casualty, whose absence is involuntary, but does not feel suffi- cient evidence currently exists to make a determination of missing or deceased.

Exigency of the public business A rule that allows DoD agencies to restore annual leave if the leave was forfeited because an exigency (an urgent need for the employee to be at work) is of major importance and that excess annual leave can- not be used.

Force pool The number and type (by series and grade group) of projected expeditionary civilian requirements in- cluded in the demand signal that force providers should be prepared to meet. The force pool represents the limit of civilian capacity that can be provided by a force provider with acceptable risk.

Force provider Includes the military departments, CCMDs with assigned forces, defense agencies and DoD field activi- ties, and Office of the Secretary of Defense components or other DoD components that provide force sourcing solutions to CCMD force requirements.

Fourth Estate Includes all organizational entities in the DoD that are not a military branch or a CCMD having DoD man- power resources.

Global force management Processes that align directed readiness, force assignment, allocation, apportionment, and assessment methodologies to support strategic guidance.

Individual Ready Reserve A manpower pool consisting of individuals who have had some training or who have served previously in the Active Component or in the Selected Reserve and may have some period of their military service obli- gation remaining.

Key employee Per DoDI 1200.07, any federal or nonfederal employee occupying a key position within an agency, com- pany, local government, or organization.

Key position A civilian position, public or private (designated by the employer and approved by the Secretary con- cerned), that cannot be vacated during war or national emergency.

Missing Casualty is not present at duty location due to apparent involuntary reasons and whose location is un- known.

Mobilization The process of assembling and organizing national resources to support national objectives in time of war or other emergencies.

Nature of action code A code that explains the personnel action that is occurring, such as an appointment or promotion. Each NOA has a unique numerical code that identifies, for statistical and data processing purposes, that partic- ular NOA.

Next of kin The person most closely related to the casualty is considered primary NOK for casualty notification and assistance purposes. This is normally the spouse of married persons and the parents of single persons who have no children. The precedence of NOK with equal relationships to the member is governed by seniority (age). See AR 638 – 8.

Nominative For this regulation, nominative positions refer to those civilian positions for which the theater commander retains authority to make the final selection decision from among the candidates who are nominated for consideration by the force providers.

Nonappropriated fund employee A civilian employee who is paid from NAFs of Army and Air Force Exchange Service, Navy Exchange Service Command, Marine Corps exchanges, or any other instrumentality of the United States under the jurisdiction of the armed forces which is conducted for the comfort, pleasure, contentment, or physical or mental improvement of members of the armed forces. Such term includes a civilian employee of a sup- port organization within DoD or a military department, such as the Defense Finance and Accounting Ser- vice, who is paid from NAFs on account of the nature of the employee’s duties.

Noncombat essential position A position-based designation to support expeditionary requirements in other than combat or combat sup- port situations.

Nonprogrammed expeditionary civilian Civilian requirements that are requested or tasked to support expeditionary missions that are not part of a continuing, programmed unit deployment mission.

Outside the continental United States United States territory located outside of the continental United States which includes Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Permanent duty station An employee’s official duty station that is documented on the most recent notification of personnel action (for example, on an SF 50 (Notification of Personnel Action) for the employee’s position of record.) The PDS is not the deployed location where the employee is temporarily assigned. Normally, an employee’s PDS is the city/town, county, and state/country where the employee regularly works, as determined by the employing agency.

Permanent duty station supervisor The employee’s supervisor of record at the PDS. The supervisor plans and schedules work, accepts or rejects completed work, assures accuracy requirements are met, appraises performance, and approves leave.

Premium pay Wages above and beyond basic pay. Examples of premium pay may include hazardous duty and envi- ronmental differentials, overtime, compensatory time, and work schedules.

Priority Placement Program A two-tiered program that provides career placement assistance to individuals who are eligible for priority consideration. Some individuals exercise their priority status by virtue of registration and referral through the Automated Stopper and Referral System which automatically matches them to DoD positions com- mensurate with their qualifications. Others exercise their priority status by applying for positions on their own initiative through an application-based process. The program provides qualified DoD employees an opportunity to be placed in vacant DoD positions.

Programmed expeditionary civilian Civilians in unit force structures who are allocated within deployable units that are a planned part of the unit deployment mission.

Ready Reserve The Selected Reserve and Individual Ready Reserve liable for active duty as prescribed by law (see 10 USCUSCUnited States Code 10142, 10 USCUSCUnited States Code 12301, and 10 USCUSCUnited States Code 12302).

Retired Reserve All reserve members who receive retirement pay on the basis of their active duty and/or reserve service; those members who are otherwise eligible for retirement pay but have not reached age 60 and who have not elected discharge and are not voluntary members of the Ready Reserve or Standby Reserve.

Security assistance A group of programs authorized by federal statutes by which the United States provides defense articles, military training, and other defense-related services by grant, lease, loan, credit, or cash sales in further- ance of national policies and objectives, and those that are funded and authorized through the Depart- ment of State to be administered by DoD/Defense Security Cooperation Agency, which are considered part of Security cooperation.

Security cooperation DoD interactions with foreign security establishments to build relationships that promote specific United States security interests, develop allied and partner military and security capabilities for self-defense and multinational operations, and provide U.S. forces with peacetime and contingency access to allies and partners.

Set the theater The broad range of functions and tasks conducted to shape the operational area and establish the condi- tions across an area of responsibility that enable the execution of the strategic plans as established by the CCMD campaign plan. The purpose of setting the theater is to shape conditions to gain access re- quired to facilitate future military operations, sustain Army and joint forces within an area of responsibility, and facilitate the successful execution of the CCMD campaign plan and other strategic plans.

Stability operations An overarching term encompassing various military missions, tasks, and activities conducted outside the United States in coordination with other instruments of national power to maintain or reestablish a safe and secure environment, provide essential governmental services and emergency infrastructure recon- struction, and humanitarian relief.

Standby Reserve Those units and members of the Reserve Component (other than those in the Ready Reserve or Retired Reserve) who are liable for active duty only, as provided in 10 USCUSCUnited States Code 10151, 10 USCUSCUnited States Code 12301, and 10 USCUSCUnited States Code 12306.

Supported organizations Organizations at the deployed location that receive mission support from deployed expeditionary civilians. Supported organizations provide logistical support and daily supervision for deployed expeditionary civil- ians.

Total force The organizations, units, and manpower used to meet the requirements associated with the DoD mis- sions. It includes DoD Regular and Reserve Component military personnel, DoD Civilian personnel (in- cluding foreign national direct- and indirect-hires), as well as NAFNAFNonappropriated fund(s) employees, host nation support person- nel, and contracted services.

U.S. Army-centric Operations, missions, or requirements predominantly affiliated with or sponsored by ACOMs or Army or- ganizations.