2017 TechNet Augusta

MG Randy S. Taylor, USA
Commanding General
U. S. Army Communications-Electronics Command & Senior Commander, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland


Major General Randy S. Taylor assumed duties as the 15th Commander of the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) and Senior Commander of Aberdeen Proving Ground on April 13, 2017. As the commanding general for a 16,000-person, two-star global command and the senior commander of a 27,000-person military base, General Taylor serves as the U.S. Army's command, control, computers, communication, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) materiel integrator. He is responsible for enabling the U.S. Army's warfighting readiness by providing sustainable global C4ISR support. General Taylor enlisted in the U.S. Army at the age of 19, later graduated from the University of Maryland, attended Infantry Officer Basic Course in 1988 and was first assigned to the Berlin Brigade, West Berlin, Germany. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Technology and Management and holds Master's degrees in Telecommunications Management, and National Security and Strategic Studies. He is a graduate of the U.S. Naval War College. His recent staff assignments have been as the Army CIO/G-6's Director of Architecture, Operations, Networks, and Space; U.S. Army Forces Command G-6; the U.S. Southern Command J-6; and the Presidential Contingency Communications Program Manager, White House Military Office, in the George W. Bush Administration. General Taylor's recent command assignments include Brigade Commander, Defense Information Systems Agency-CONUS at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois; and Commander of the 112th Signal Battalion (Special Operations) (Airborne), U.S. Army Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg and while deployed for Operation ENDURING FREEDOM in Afghanistan and Operation IRAQI FREEDOM in Iraq. Major General Taylor and his husband, Lucas Taylor, were married in St. Michaels, Maryland.

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