Rienzi

Thomas Matthew "Big Tom" Rienzi (February 15, 1919 – December 15, 2010) was a lieutenant general in the U.S. Army Signal Corps who served during World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam War. He implemented the modernization of signal units from the usage of just wire and radio, through the growth of strategic satellite communications, to the integration of computer systems at even the tactical level. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Rienzi.