Mr. Thomas F. Woloszyn
Chief of Staff, U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground
Dugway, Utah
Mr. Woloszyn serves as the Chief of Staff (CoS) to the Commander for the U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC), at Dugway Proving Ground (DPG). He directs staff and special staff functions and is an ambassador for DPG. He directs the West Desert Test Center’s surety, logistics, and administrative programs that provide complex, professional services directly affecting a joint service military installation.
Previously, Mr. Woloszyn was the Chief Operating Officer (COO) for the U.S. Army DEVCOM Chemical Biological Center (CBC). He served as the principal advisor to the SES Director and led the general staff. He was responsible for internal Center Operations including managing and ensuring the functional domains of human resources, security, logistics, infrastructure and facilities, IT/communications, safety, internal review, environmental compliance, and resource management.
Mr. Woloszyn was Chief of Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) Futures at the US Army Nuclear and CWMD Agency and the Army Staff G-3/5/7 where he supported the development of US Army CBRN defense capabilities, system survivability, and allied interoperability. Tom retired from Army in 2011 after 30 years of service. His last active-duty position was the Principal Director to the Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Chemical and Biological Defense in Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (AT&L).
Mr. Woloszyn graduated from the Pennsylvania State University with a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry and commissioned into the Army Chemical Corps. He received a Master of Science degree in Chemistry in 1992 with his study of mustard agent from the Iran – Iraq war. In 2006 he attended the National War College and received a master’s degree in National Security Policy & Strategy.
In his thirty-year career, he has served in a variety of command and staff positions in units such as the 82d Airborne Division, the 3rd Infantry Division, XVIII Airborne Corps and the US Central Command where he served as the J3 CBRN Branch Chief. At CENTCOM, he participated in both Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom in Iraq. His area of responsibility was CBRN defense, consequence management and coordinating the search for WMD weapons and their associated programs in Afghanistan and Iraq.
COL(R) Woloszyn commanded the Umatilla Army Depot in Hermiston, Oregon from July 1999 to July 2001. He later commanded the Pine Bluff Arsenal, a brigade-level command in White Hall, Arkansas. The Arsenal manufactures and repairs chemical defense equipment for the Joint Force. The Arsenal also produces pyrotechnic, smoke, and white phosphorous ammunition. Under his command, the installation began demilitarizing the 3800 tons of chemical weapons stored there and demilitarizing the last operational binary nerve agent facility.
He was later assigned to the Office of the Secretary of Defense as Deputy Director of the Countering WMD Office in OSD Policy. He became a Department of the Army civilian in 2012.
Tom is married to the former Karen Sogard from Duluth, Minnesota, a retired schoolteacher. They have two sons, both former Army officers.