Wayne Arny is currently the Acting Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Installations and Environment) for the Department of the Navy. In this position, he is responsible to the Secretary, Gordon England, for installations and environment policy issues. This position includes Secretarial oversight of environmental programs including: conservation of natural and cultural programs, clean up of contaminated sites and pollution prevention; of installation and facilities programs including: BRAC disposal, Military Construction, Energy and Utility Privatization, and Family and Bachelor Housing Privatization for the Navy and the Marine Corps; of safety programs including: advocacy of safety, occupational health and fire protection; and of installation strategy and analysis including: determining basing and infrastructure requirements for the Department of the Navy.

He still serves concurrently as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Installations & Environment) and the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Installations and Facilities).

His first position with the George W. Bush Administration was as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Senate Legislative Affairs) for the Department of Defense. In this position he was responsible for legislative coordination between the Department of Defense and the U.S. Senate.

Prior to joining the Bush Administration, Wayne Arny was the President of Wayne Arny & Associates, a government relations firm he founded in January 1990 after 29 years in the Federal Government and the U.S. Navy. His firm represented clients involved in national security and international affairs issues in front of the Executive and Legislative Branches. He also assisted his clients in marketing to the Federal Government and the Private Sector.

In 1989 Wayne Arny left federal service for the first time after serving on Capitol Hill and in two positions in the Reagan Administration. From 1986 to 1989 he was the Program Associate Director (National Security & International Affairs) at the OMB in the White House handling all government wide budget and execution issues related to the Departments of Defense and State and all the other major and minor agencies that make up Defense and Foreign Affairs components of the Federal Government. From 1984 to 1986 he was the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Shipbuilding & Logistics) handling procurement issues covering shipbuilding, aircraft procurement, real estate, environmental restoration, weapons procurement, and logistics. From 1981 to 1984 Mr. Arny was a Professional Staff Member on the Subcommittee on Sea Power and Force Projection of the Senate Armed Services Committee, where he worked for Sen. John Tower (R-TX) and Sen. Bill Cohen (R-ME). He was responsible for Navy shipbuilding, research and development, missiles, torpedoes, electronics, ASW aircraft, airlift, rapid deployment forces, and general strategy issues.

Wayne Arny is a 1964 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and served as an active duty Naval Aviator until 1981, achieving the rank of Commander. He resigned to work for the Senate Armed Services Committee. During his active duty service, he was a fighter pilot flying the F-4 Phantom off Vietnam, with additional tours in the Western Pacific, the Mediterranean and the North Atlantic. During his career he was also a Test Pilot and a long-range planning officer for the Chief of Naval Operations. In 1979 he was the first Navy Fellow and first Military Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. In 1980 he was a planning officer in the State Department. He finished his career as a Captain in the Naval Reserve, having had command of two Battle Staffs; one for the Chief of Naval Operations in Washington, D.C. and the other for the NATO Command in Portugal.

In addition to graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy with a Bachelor of Science degree, Wayne Arny has a Master's in International Relations from Catholic University, Washington, DC. He is a graduate of the Navy Test Pilot School, the Navy Fighter Weapons School (Topgun), and the Naval War College.

Updated: 14 September 2004