Rear Admiral Christopher J. Tomney
Assistant Commandant for Intelligence & Criminal
Investigations
United States Coast Guard
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Rear Admiral Tomney assumed his current duties as Assistant Commandant for Intelligence and Criminal Investigations in May 2012. Overseeing a workforce of over 1200 professionals, he is accountable for the Service's intelligence programs, to include counterintelligence, cyber, criminal investigations and cryptology.
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 the Brookings Certificate in Public Leadership.
A practitioner of intelligence for over twenty years, Rear Admiral Tomney 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. His national level intelligence experience includes serving as the Chief of the Coast Guard's Intelligence Plans and Policy Office and as the Executive Assistant to the Assistant Commandant for Intelligence and Criminal Investigations. He also served as Commanding Officer of the Coast Guard's Intelligence Coordination Center. Most recently, Rear Admiral Tomney served as Director, Joint Interagency Task Force West in the role as the Counter Drug ExecutiveAgent for Commander, United States Pacific Command.
Beginning his career in afloat operations, 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 Defense Superior Service Medal, 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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