Tcswrgp's List: BG Brian Donahue

LandWarNet 2008 Conference. Track Session.

Slide presentation.

But budgetary pressures could impose severe limitations on the Army’s ability to modernize its information technology infrastructure. Gen. Sorenson said that the Army is entering a period of tremendous uncertainty in terms of its budget, with only half of the information technology programs currently funded.

One of these key programs is the Army’s Network Service Centers, or NSCs (SIGNAL Magazine, August 2008). They will be essential to allowing the expeditionary Army to deploy with its information architecture seamlessly.

And, despite its ongoing operations around the world, the U.S. Army is a continental United States (CONUS)-based force that must be able to deploy its capabilities seamlessly. Unfortunately, that is not yet the case. Brig. Gen. Brian Donahue, USA, director of the LandWarNet office, Army G-3/5/7, described that challenge to an overflow crowd in a combined track exploring expeditionary capabilities and horizontal network centricity.

“We are a CONUS-based Army,” Gen. Donahue declared. “CONUS will be a hard nut to crack. We have to fix this—Army relevance is at stake.”

The Army must be able to maintain its full capabilities throughout the entire spectrum of a deployed operation. Gen. Donahue declared that the Army no longer can afford to separate operational aspects. It must engage in decisive combat—phase three—concurrent with phase four stabilization operations. This was not done in the Iraq War, and now U.S. forces are paying the price.

• Brig. Gen. Brian J. Donahue, coordinator, LandWarNet/Battle Command, office of the deputy chief of staff, G-3/5/7 in Washington, D.C., will become director, J-6, at Central Command, MacDill Air Force Base, Fla.

14 April 2009.

IMMEDIATE RELEASE
No. 587-07
May 15, 2007

Army Col. Brian J. Donahue for promotion to the grade of brigadier general. He is currently serving as executive officer to the deputy chief of staff, G-3/5/7, Washington, D.C.

BG Brian Donahue, Director, LandWarNet – HQDA G3/5/7

Long Version

BG Brian Donahue, Director, LandWarNet - HQDA G3/5/7

Short Version

Donahue's promotion to brigadier general.

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