Lieutenant General Abner Broadwater Martin (May 25, 1927 – August 11, 2011) was third Director of the United States Defense Mapping Agency from September 1977 to June 1979.

He earned a master's degree in weapons systems engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1954, a master's degree in international affairs from The George Washington University in 1965, and graduated from the U.S. Army War College in 1965, and attended the six-week Advanced Management Program of Harvard Business School in 1968.

[2] As director of the Defense Mapping Agency from September 1977 to June 1979, Lt. Gen. Abner Martin responded to the growing demands for digital geographic data required by new aircraft simulators and the strategic and tactical variants of the cruise missiles.

During his tenure, DMA production processes moved rapidly to provide world coverage of digital data for weapon deployment.

[1] Lieutenant General Martin was a command pilot who wore the Master Missileman Badge.