United States Army Communications-Electronics Command

United States Army Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM)
CECOM Distinctive Unit Insignia
Active1981–present
CountryUnited States
BranchUnited States Army
TypeLife Cycle Management Command
Size13,000
Part of U.S. Army Materiel Command
Garrison/HQAberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland
Nickname(s)CECOM
WebsiteOfficial website Edit this at Wikidata
Commanders
Current
commander		Major General James D. Turinetti IV[1]
Notable
commanders		Major General Robert L. Nabors Sept 1998 – July 2001
Insignia
Shoulder sleeve insignia of the U.S. Army Materiel Command, worn by CECOM soldiers

The Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) is a Life Cycle Management Command (LCMC) of the United States Army based at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, United States. It is one of four such commands under the Army Materiel Command (AMC), and is the Army's provider and maintainer of Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) capabilities.

The 2005 Base Realignment and Closure decision relocated CECOM to Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland as part of implementing the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure law. Its former home, Fort Monmouth, New Jersey has been closed since 15 September 2011. CECOM has approximately 13,000 military, civilian and contract personnel across six CECOM organizations:[2]

  1. the Army Contracting Command-APG;
  2. the Army Medical Logisitics Command, Fort Detrick, Maryland;
  3. Central Technical Support Facility, Fort Hood, Texas;
  4. CECOM Integrated Logistics Support Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland;
  5. CECOM Software Engineering Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland;
  6. Tobyhanna Army Depot, Pennsylvania
  7. U.S. Army Information Systems Engineering Command, Fort Huachuca, Arizona.[3]
  1. ^ Ponder, Rachel (2 July 2024). "CECOM welcomes 18th commander". U.S. Army. Aberdeen Proving Ground. Retrieved 3 July 2024.
  2. ^ "CECOM - Army's Materiel Integrator for C5ISR Readiness". Archived from the original on 12 July 2019.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference cecomAPG was invoked but never defined (see the help page).