408th Contracting Support Brigade

408th Contracting Support Brigade
CountryUnited States
AllegianceUnited States Army
TypeCombat service support unit
RoleArranging Contracts
Part ofU.S. Army Materiel Command - Army Contracting Command (ACC)
Garrison/HQCamp Arifjan, Kuwait/ Shaw AFB, South Carolina
Nickname(s)408th CSB
Motto(s)"CONFERRE AB CONFIRMATUS" (Focused and Determined)[1]
WebsiteACC Homepage
Commanders
Current
commander
Colonel Robert Bartruff
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]

  1. ^ 408th Support Battalion Heraldry, The Institute of Heraldry (TIOH), Washington, DC. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
  2. ^ About Expeditionary Sustainment Command Archived 2016-07-15 at the Wayback Machine, 408th Contracting Support Brigade link. Accessed 17 July 2016.