The U.S. Army has approved activation of a continental U.S.-based theater signal command, to be headquartered at Fort Gordon.
The 7th Signal Command (Theater) will have its headquarters element at Fort Gordon, and will have signal brigades stationed on the east and west coasts. The ribboncutting for the Fort Gordon Headquarters in Building 21715, will be 10:30 a.m. Oct. 23.
The formal activation ceremony will be held in February 2009.
Brig. Gen. Jennifer Napper, 7th Sig. Cmd. (Theater) commander will be the third general officer commander at Fort Gordon. Currently, the commanders of the U.S. Army Signal Center and the Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center are one-star generals.
Napper comes to Fort Gordon from the Defense Information Systems Agency in the Pentagon, where she served as deputy director of Joint Task Force-Global Network Operations, directing the operation and defense of the Global Information Grid.
The 93rd Signal Brigade, which was activated at Fort Gordon in 1998 and inactivated in 2007, will be activated again at Fort Eustis, Va.
The second signal brigade to be activated as part of the 7th Signal Command is the 106th Signal Brigade, to be located at Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
The two brigades will be activated in phases, with a planned full operational capability by 2010.
By 2010, the 7th Signal Command Headquarters at Fort Gordon will have a full staff of 171 civilians and 68 military. The employees will be computer network defense, personnel, supply and other specialties.
The mission of the 7th is to operate and defend the Continental U.S. portion of the Army's global computer network, called LandWarNet.
The command will assure total global network access for all Signal Soldiers from the combat units deployed around the world and those on desktop computers to the White House Communications Agency.
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