Lieutenant-General Sir Edmund Fortescue Gerard Burton KBE (born 20 October 1943) is a former British Army officer who became Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Systems).

Educated at Cheltenham College[1] and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, Burton was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1963.

[1] He became military attaché in Washington D. C. in 1990, Commandant of the Royal Military College of Science in 1991 and Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff Operational Requirements (Land) in 1994.

[2] He went on to be Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Systems) in 1997 and retired in 2000.

[3] He remains the Chair of the Advisory Committee on Trustworthy Software (ACTS).