Civil engineers provide hurricane relief at Keesler Published Sept. 2, 2005 TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (AFPN) -- The Air Force Civil Engineer Support Agency here is assisting in hurricane recovery efforts at Keesler Air Force Base, Miss.The agency’s civil engineer maintenance, inspection and repair team sent three trailer-sized generators to help provide emergency power to the base. Each generator is capable of providing 500 kilowatts, enough to power small facilities and offices. By comparison, a typical home generator is about five kilowatts.The agency has also been asked by Keesler and Air Education and Training Command officials to contract out contingency response services through the Air Force Contract Augmentation Program. The program is an emergency response program allowing the agency to avoid the normal, but slower, contracting process and quickly provide contracted support during contingency operations, humanitarian operations and operations other than war.The program is currently being used to help Keesler civil engineers conduct damage assessment for the base. Once the assessment is completed, the contract could be further expanded to provide additional services. Some of those services include debris removal, mold remediation, roofing repairs, removing water, silt and mud, restoring electrical service and repairing facilities and infrastructure.The agency also sent an airfield pavement evaluation team to the base to inspect its airfield since it was underwater.