Cedar Rapids lieutenant is now a general

An officer in the Cedar Rapids Police Department just got promoted, but not in Cedar Rapids.

Lt. Steven Feldmann became the Army's newest one-star general in a Friday afternoon ceremony in Rock Island, Ill.

Brig. Gen. Feldmann, a Hopkinton native, of the Army Reserve, will serve as the deputy commanding general of operations for the region's Army Sustainment Command.

According to a statement from military sources, Feldmann will be “responsible for ASC operations throughout Central Command's area of operations and providing trained and ready Army Reserve Soldiers in support of mission requirements for the Army Materiel Command; the Defense Contract Management Agency; the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisitions, Logistics, and Technology; the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program; the Defense Logistics Agency; and the Army Contracting Command.”