Lt. Gen. Edmond M. Brown, the deputy commander of the Army’s Transformation and Training Command, visits Fort Sill, Okla., in December 2025. (Angela Turner/U.S. Army)
AUSTIN, Texas — The deputy commander of the Army’s Transformation and Training Command will perform the duties of commander after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth removed the four-star that served as the first to lead the organization.
Lt. Gen. Edmond M. Brown has been the deputy commander of T2COM since November 2024, when it was still called Army Futures Command — where he has served in several roles since 2019.
“The Army has the utmost confidence in his ability to serve as the acting [commanding general], T2COM until a new [commanding general] is confirmed by the Senate,” said Cynthia O. Smith, an Army spokeswoman.
His predecessor, Gen. David Hodne, was among three general officers ousted last week by Hegseth without specific details provided as to why. Gen. Randy George, who was the Army chief of staff, stepped down when asked to, and Maj. Gen. William Green Jr., the chief of Army chaplains, was removed from his position.
The Army is processing Hodne’s request for retirement, Smith said.
Hodne took command of T2COM in October as the Austin-based command was formally activated through the merger of Army Futures Command and Training and Doctrine Command.
Before joining Futures Command, Hodne had worked in the Army chief of staff’s office, including during George’s first four months in the job.
The Army created T2COM last year to restructure and downsize. It oversees future warfighting concepts and capabilities, all aspects of recruiting and the Army’s schools, training programs and doctrine development.
“For the first time in modern history, the Army unified the functions of force design, force development and force generation,” Hodne said during the T2COM’s activation ceremony. “Technology alone never transformed war. The tank, the airplane, the drone, none changed battlefields by themselves. It required new tactics, new concepts and new organizations to integrate them into coherent warfighting systems.”
Before the consolidation, Futures Command had only been around since 2018, so Brown has served within it for nearly its entire existence. He started as the deputy director and chief of staff for the command’s Futures and Concepts Center. He then moved in 2021 to command its Combat Capabilities Development Command based at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.
Brown then moved to the Futures Command headquarters in Austin, serving as the chief of staff, then special assistant to the commander. He received his third star in November 2024 as he stepped into the role of deputy commander.
