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June 12, 2020 the Honorable James M. Inhofe the Honorable Jack June 12, 2020 The Honorable James M. Inhofe The Honorable Jack Reed Chairman, Armed Services Committee Ranking Member, Armed Services Committee United States Senate United States Senate Washington, D.C. 20510 Washington, D.C. 20510 Dear Chairman Inhofe and Ranking Member Reed: We are former and current leaders who served or serve in the defense, diplomatic, national security, education, and infrastructure realms of the government of the United States of America, to include federal, state, and local. Many of us are former senior leaders in the military and defense department, while others of us are former governors, ambassadors, chancellors, and elected officials who work to advance U.S. foreign and domestic policy. While we may differ in outlook and on matters of policy or law on which we focus, we write today with one voice, in united support of the nomination of Brigadier General Anthony J. Tata (U.S. Army, Retired) as the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. We have all dedicated a good part of our lives and careers to public service; ensuring the democratic values we cherish are upheld, the law is faithfully executed, that our fellow Americans are secure from that which may threaten to cause harm, be it international or domestic, and that our domestic foundation is sound. Many of us have had the privilege of serving with General Tata during one of his many tours of duty in public office—a family tradition for a man whose parents were two career public school teachers. His father, Bob Tata, is the son of Italian immigrants and the first college graduate of his family. “Coach” Tata was a successful high school football coach, who served 30 years in the Virginia General Assembly representing Virginia Beach and working in bipartisan fashion to advance the state’s interests, especially as Chairman of the Education Committee. His mother, Jerri Morris Tata, of Greene County, Virginia, served two terms on the Virginia Beach Board of Education after her 41 years as a business teacher and school counselor. Throughout his decades of distinguished public service, Tony has earned widespread respect for his capable leadership, unwavering dedication and professionalism, calm demeanor, quick intelligence, and bipartisan solutions-oriented approach. We believe he is the right person at the right time for what is always a very critical post, but perhaps never more critical than now. We are confident Tony will lead with distinction and integrity during these very challenging times for our nation. While our vantage point may be unique, we suspect our perspective is not, which is why Tony has been selected for critical positions in the past, such as Deputy Commanding General of the 10th Mountain Division and U.S. Forces in Afghanistan, Deputy Director of the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO), Brigade Commander in the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Battalion Commander in the 82nd Airborne Division, Chief Operating Officer of Washington, DC Public Schools, Superintendent of Wake County Public Schools, North Carolina Secretary of Transportation, and now Undersecretary of Defense for Policy. Tony’s lifelong commitment to public service began at the age of 17 when he attended the United States Military Academy at West Point. He served with distinction for 28 years in a variety of challenging command positions in the 25th Infantry (Hawaii), 4th Infantry (Colorado), 82nd Airborne (North Carolina), 101st Airborne (Kentucky), and 10th Mountain (New York) Divisions with operational deployments in the Philippines, Republic of Korea, Hungary, Croatia, Bosnia, Panama, Macedonia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan. In 2007, after returning from a 13-month combat tour in Afghanistan where he was awarded the Combat Action Badge and Bronze Star, General Tata served as the Deputy Director of JIEDDO, a Department of Defense interagency task force responsible for assisting deployed forces with defeating IEDs, training units for combat deployments, and attacking enemy networks. Importantly, Tony was assigned command of units in the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions that had previously undergone traumatic, destabilizing events prior to his arrival. Tony’s steadfast leadership and commitment led these organizations back to combat readiness and success. Tony is steeped in national security planning and policy, playing key roles in planning and executing operations in Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan. Upon transitioning from the military, Tony believed passionately that education was—and remains—a priority national security issue and turned down private sector opportunities in order to continue to serve our nation, this time as an education leader. First, he served at the epicenter of education reform with Chancellor Michelle Rhee in Washington, DC Public Schools and then as the Superintendent of Wake County (Raleigh, NC) Public School System, the 16th largest school system in the country. As superintendent, Tony brought together a divided community and school system and implemented programs that saw outsized gains in student achievement across all grade levels and measured groups, with low income students outpacing all others by a two to one margin. His innovations led to multiple early college programs and put thousands of children on a path to career readiness or college attendance with reforms in 8th grade Algebra programming. An independent accreditation agency identified Tony’s leadership as improving governance, increasing student performance, and stabilizing the community. Importantly, Tony implemented visionary policies and innovations under contracting budgets while resourcing teachers with pay raises and bonuses. His advocacy for “front line” employees, be they troops, teachers, or survey crews, is a central theme of Tony’s leadership. As North Carolina Secretary of Transportation, Tony continued his strong bipartisan leadership by working with then Speaker of the House Representative Thom Tillis and the entire NC General Assembly to pass legislation that reformed transportation funding to a more efficient system, improving military readiness by upgrading ports at Wilmington and Morehead City, and expediting projects that connected people to employment and education centers. As a community leader, Tony serves or served on nonprofits aimed at caring for our wounded and struggling veterans. He is the Chairman of the North Carolina Heroes Fund, serves as an Ambassador for Homes for our Troops, has donated generously to the USO Metro DC Hospital Services Fund, and served as a board member of the North Carolina Military Order of the Purple Heart. As a businessman, Tony led and worked with companies that focused on critical defense and infrastructure areas such as Future Vertical Lift, Network Command and Control, Oil and Gas, and Strategic Planning. It is obvious that Tony is a patriot who has built his career around faithfully serving his country at the federal, state and local levels, and advancing the economic prosperity, national security, education, infrastructure, and foreign policy interests of the American people. He has decades of successful experience to draw from and independent knowledge of how government works, how our adversaries think, and what it takes to achieve success on behalf of the U.S. government. He has dedicated his life – as did his family before him – to serving this great country and to our national security. We believe that his integrity, foreign policy knowledge, vast leadership skills, and incredible depth and breadth of experience have prepared him for any challenge that lies ahead. As we all have witnessed, rest assured that Tony will always put his country first. We recommend him unreservedly. Respectfully, General (Ret.) Robert Brown General (Ret.) Richard A. Cody Commanding General, US Army Pacific Vice Chief of Staff, Army (2004-2008) (2016-2019) Deputy Chief of Staff, Army G-3/5/7 (2002- Commanding General, US Army Combined 2004) Arms Center and Ft. Leavenworth (2014- Commanding General, 101st Airborne (Air 2016) Assault) Division (2000-2002) Commanding General, I Corps (2012-2014) Department of the Army (1972-2009) Department of the Army (1981-2019) General (Ret.) Ann Dunwoody General (Ret.) Wesley Clark Commanding General, U.S. Army Material Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (1997- Command (2008-2012) 2000) Deputy Chief of Staff, Logistics (2005- Commanding General, U.S. Southern 2008) Command (1996-1997) Commanding General, Combined Arms Director, J-5, Strategic Plans and Policy, Support Command (2004-2005) Joint Staff (1994-1996) Department of the Army (1975-2012) Department of the Army (1966-2000) General (Ret.) Mick Nicholson Lieutenant General (Ret.) Frank Helmick Commanding General, U.S. Forces, Commanding General, XVIIIth Airborne Afghanistan (2016-2018) Corps (2009-2012) Commanding General, NATO Land Forces, Commanding General, Multi-National Izmir Turkey (2014-2015) Security Transition Command-Iraq (2008- Commanding General, 82nd Airborne 2009) Division (2013-2104) Commanding General, Southern European Department of the Army (1982-2019) Task Force (2006-2008) Department of the Army (1976-2012) General (Ret.) Dennis Reimer Chief of Staff, Army (1995-1999) Lieutenant General (Ret.) Patricia Commanding General, US Forces Command McQuistion (1993-1995) Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff, US Vice Chief of Staff, Army (1991-1993) Army Material Command Department of the Army (1962-1999) (2012-2015) Commanding General, U.S. Army General (Ret.) Raymond A. “Tony” Sustainment Command
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