Major General Mark Bowman serves as the Director of Architecture, Operations, Networks, and Space for the Department of the Army CIO/G-6.  He is responsible for establishing and maintaining strategy, policy, and guidance for building, integrating, communicating, and facilitating the seamless implementation of the LandWarNet in a Joint and Coalition environment,. He is responsible for ensuring compliance with statutory and regulatory mandates,  employing the Army Architecture Integration Center to develop the Enterprise Architecture, identify and coordinate technical standards, and to create and maintain architecture processes for Army Transformation. He is further responsible for providing support to Overseas Contingency Operations, and supporting natural disaster relief efforts.

MG Bowman received a Reserve commission in the Infantry in 1978 upon graduation from Norwich University.  He received a master’s degree in public administration from Shippensburg University in 1998. His military education includes the Infantry Officer Basic Course, Signal Officer Advanced Course, Training with Industry, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Joint Command and Control Course, the Armed Forces Staff College, and the U.S. Army War College.

His assignments include Battalion S-4, Company Executive Officer, Company Commander, and Battalion Operations Officer, 1st Signal Training Brigade, Fort Gordon, Georgia; Chief, Transmission Systems and Force Structure Branches, DCSOPS, 5th Signal Command, Germany; Action Officer and Chief, Concepts Branch, Directorate of Combat Developments, and S-3, 67th Signal Battalion, Fort Gordon; Action Officer, Command Centers Support Division, Joint Staff, J-6, Washington, D. C.; Staff Officer, Tactical Systems Division, Office of the Director, Information Systems Command, Control, Communications, and Computer (ODISC4), Washington, D.C.; Battalion Commander, 54th Signal Battalion, Saudi Arabia; Chief, Operations Division, and Commander, Joint Staff Support Center, Defense Information Systems Agency, Washington, D.C.; Brigade Commander, 11th Signal Brigade and Chief Operations Officer (G-3), Network Enterprise Technology Command/9th Army Signal Command, Fort Huachuca, Arizona; Executive Officer to the Army’s Chief Information Officer (CIO/G-6), Deputy Commander for Support, U.S. Army Network Enterprise Technology Command/9th Army Signal Command and, Chief of Staff for Defense Information Systems Agency, Washington, D.C.  He was promoted to Major General on December 22, 2009.

MG Bowman’s decorations include the Defense Superior Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster, Bronze Star Medal, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, and the Meritorious Service Medal with five Oak Leaf Clusters.  He is also authorized to wear the Joint Staff Identification Badge, Army Staff Identification Badge, and the Parachutist Badge.