Service record
Career details drawn from Col. (Ret.) Mark Schonberg's professional record: 34 years of U.S. Army IT and cyber leadership, verified assignments, budgets, and program outcomes.
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34
Years Military Command
40+
Data Centers Built
25M
Sq Ft Smart City Delivered
$16B+
Infrastructure Managed
01The mandate
Intelligence should protect what cannot be replaced.
M3KI approaches digital infrastructure as an act of stewardship: strengthening essential systems while preserving energy, ecosystems, human dignity, and the continuity of community life.
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Secure by design
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Resource conscious
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Human governed
02 · The Architect
Leadership Forged in Global Cyber Command
Republic of Korea
U.S. Chairman, C4I Joint U.S.-Korean Working Group
Executed an $880 million program delivering the SMART City backbone of the $16 billion-plus Yongsan Relocation Plan: 127 IT portfolio packages, 200 miles of wire and fiber, and over 600 structures totaling 25 million square feet for 48,000 relocating U.S. forces.
U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM)
Chief, J63 — Operations, Plans & Defensive Cyber
Directed secure communications and cyber defense for 10,000+ users across Europe and Africa, commanding the 24/7 AFRICOM Network Command Center, two Cyber Protection Teams, 130+ personnel, and $50 million-plus in support contracts.
U.S. Army Cyber Command
Deputy Chief of Staff & G6/CIO
Synchronized staff and operations across a 16,000-person global cyber command, and directed the IT and cyber infrastructure design for the new ARCYBER headquarters relocation from Ft. Belvoir to Ft. Gordon.
U.S. Army Cyber Command
Founding Director, Cyber Capability Development & Integration
Established the Department of the Army's cyber capabilities directorate and led the team that authored the initial Field Manual 3-12 — the Army's foundational doctrine for cyberspace and electromagnetic warfare.
03 · Strategic Insights
Defining the National Cyber Posture
“Defining the DOD Role in National Cybersecurity”
U.S. Army War College
A Masters in Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College and a Masters in Information Management Systems anchor a career of doctrine-level thinking — including standing up the Army's cyber capabilities directorate and authoring its foundational cyberspace warfare field manual. M3K Innovations carries that strategic discipline into civilian infrastructure: resilience, governance, continuity, and systems integration at national scale.
National SecurityCyber PolicyCritical InfrastructureIndependent Civilian Advisory
04 · The Legacy
The SMART City Is Already Built
Camp Humphreys SMART City
The $16B+ Yongsan Relocation Plan
As U.S. Chairman of the C4I Joint U.S.-Korean Working Group, Col. Schonberg executed an $880 million budget that enabled the SMART City concept at the heart of the $16 billion-plus Yongsan Relocation and Land Partnership Plans — realigning 48,000 U.S. forces onto one intelligent, connected installation.
The build: 127 discrete IT portfolio packages, thousands of line items of C4I equipment, 200 miles of wire and fiber optics, and more than 600 structures totaling 25 million square feet — a functioning smart city, delivered at a scale few programs on Earth have ever attempted.
Smart City · Delivered
05 · Strategic Capabilities
Enterprise Solutions for Critical Infrastructure
AI Data Center Architecture
Hyper-scalable facilities for extreme compute.
High-Consequence Cybersecurity
Secure-by-design integration forged across 34 years of military IT and cyber command.
Renewable Microgrids
Resilient, off-grid power for critical infrastructure.
High-Stakes Advisory
Global IT deployment and M&A consulting.
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Delivered programs
Completed, documented work — including the $880M SMART City C4I program at Camp Humphreys and continental-scale cyber defense operations at AFRICOM and ARCYBER.
Forward-looking strategy
Concepts, objectives, and proposed civilian architectures — presented as strategy, distinct from the delivered record above.
M3K Innovations is an independent commercial advisory. References to government service describe prior public roles and do not imply agency affiliation or endorsement. Forward-looking environmental objectives remain subject to project-specific validation.