Col. Shane Taylor

Colonel Shane Taylor is the Project Manager (PM) for Tactical Network, assigned to the Program Executive Office for Command, Control, Communications-Tactical (PEO C3T). In this position, he provides the direction, management and leadership for the Army’s current and future tactical communications network, which enables mission command and secure reliable voice, video and data communications to Soldiers worldwide. He manages an annual budget of over a billion dollars to provide critical network communications capabilities to the Army, Department of Defense and other government organizations.

Prior to attending Senior Service College, he served as the Product Manager for Tactical Mission Command, under Project Manager Mission Command, from June 2014–June 2017. Other Army acquisition assignments include executive officer to the Deputy for Acquisition and Systems Management (DASM), Department of the Army Systems Coordinator (DASC) for Mission Command then DASC, Joint Tactical Radio Systems, Pentagon; deputy group leader, DCMA Space Sensors; deputy theater contracting officer, DCMA Iraq/Afghanistan; Patriot Missile program integrator, DCMA Space Sensors; assistant product manager, Intelligent Munitions System (Scorpion), Program Executive Office for Ammunition. Prior to his assignment as PM for Tactical Network, he served as the executive officer to the Principal Deputy, Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Technology and Logistics) at the Pentagon, Washington, D.C.

Earlier in his military career, following assignments in 2nd Battalion, 39th Infantry Regiment and later 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, at Fort Lewis, Washington, COL Taylor was commissioned through Officer Candidate School. Assignments included detachment commander (FWD), Task Force 55th/1st Infantry Division, Kosovo; detachment commander, Charlie Detachment, 55th PSB, Friedberg, Germany; executive officer to 1st Army Personnel Command commander, Heidelberg, Germany; aide-de-camp to commanding general, Army Training Center, Fort Jackson, South Carolina; and commander for Bravo Company, 369th AG Battalion.

COL Taylor earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Oklahoma State University in 1993. He earned a Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Management from Clemson University in 2006, a MBA from Pennsylvania State University in 2010, and a master’s in National Security and Resource Strategy from the Eisenhower School in Washington D.C in 2018.

His military education includes the Officer Basic and Advanced Courses, Army Airborne School, Combined Arms Services and Staff School, Command and General Staff College Common Core (ILE), the FA 51 Intermediate Qualification Course, the Program Management Officers Course, the Program Manager’s Course, and the Executive Program Manager’s Course. He is Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA) Level 3 Certified in Program Management and Level 1 in IT and Contracting.

COL Taylor’s awards include the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the Meritorious Service Medal with 4 oak leaf clusters, the Joint Service Commendation Medal, the Army Commendation Medal with 3 oak leaf clusters, the Army Achievement Medal with 3 oak leaf clusters, Kosovo Campaign Medal, Iraq Campaign Medal, the NATO Medal, the Parachutist’s Badge and the Army Staff Badge.