Rear Admiral Christopher J. Tomney
Director, Joint Interagency Task Force West
US Coast Guard
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Rear Admiral Tomney assumed his current duties as Director, Joint Interagency Task Force West in March 2010. A standing Joint Task Force, JIATF West is the U.S. Pacific Command’s executive agent for planning and conducting counter-drug strategy in an area of operations covering over 105 million square miles.
Rear Admiral Tomney graduated from the Coast Guard Academy in 1986 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Marine Science. He earned a Master of Science degree in Strategic Intelligence from the Defense Intelligence College and completed a federal executive fellowship at the Brookings Institution, earning Brookings inaugural Certificate in Public Leadership.
Rear Admiral Tomney has served in a variety of intelligence assignments involving training, operations, planning, and management. He served as the School Chief for the Coast Guard’s Operational Intelligence School, Deputy Director of the Coast Guard’s Pacific Area Intelligence Division and briefly served as the Deputy Director of the Coast Guard’s Counterintelligence Service. Upon establishment, he served as the first Director of Intelligence Operations for the Maritime Intelligence Fusion Center, Pacific. National level intelligence experience include Chief of the Coast Guard’s Intelligence Plans and Policy Office and Executive Assistant to the Assistant Commandant for Intelligence and Criminal Investigations. Most recently, he served as Commanding Officer of the Coast Guard’s Intelligence Coordination Center.
Rear Admiral Tomney is a permanent cutterman and is qualified in tactical law enforcement. He commanded USCGC POINT MONROE out of Freeport, Texas and USCGC OCRACOKE out of Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico. He served as a Deck Watch Officer in USCGC DILIGENCE and as Executive Officer in USCGC CONFIDENCE both homeported in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Additionally, he commanded Law Enforcement Detachment Two out of Key West, Florida. Rear Admiral Tomney’s military decorations include the Legion of Merit (2), the Meritorious Service Medal, the Coast Guard Commendation Medal (4), the Navy-Marine Corps Commendation Medal, the Coast Guard Achievement Medal (2), the Commandant’s Letter of Commendation, the Humanitarian Service Medal, and the Kuwaiti Liberation Medal.
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