Pelahatchie native and Northwest Rankin High School graduate Jason F. Tate was recently pinned and promoted to U.S. Army Colonel and is assigned Project Manager of the STARE Project Office in Madison, Alabama.
Col. Tate graduated from the Army War College in Carlisle, Pa., with a Master of Strategic Studies on June , 2020, having entered the college a Lieutenant Colonel before earning his promotion to the rank of Colonel on June
8, 2020, being pinned by Mr. Larry Muzzelo, the Communications Electronics Command Deputy to the Commanding General at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.
Col. Tate holds a doctorate of philosophy in management from Walden University, a Master of Science degree in Environmental Management from Webster University and a Master of Arts degree in International Relations from the University of Oklahoma.
Col. Tate and his family recently moved from Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. to Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala., where Col. Tate assumed command of Project Management Office Search, Track, Acquire, Radiate, Eliminate (STARE). As the STARE Project Manager, Col. Tate is responsible for the development, testing, and procurement of the Army’s Field Artillery and Air Defense Radars under Program Executive Office Missiles and Space.
Colonel Tate is a 1998 graduate of Tougaloo College with a bachelor’s degree in Biology and is married to the former Kandie S. Stovall, M.D. of Huntsville, Ala. They have three sons, Noah Tate, 18, Nathan Tate, 15, and Nicholas Tate, 12.
Col. Tate is the son of Joe and Brenda Tate of Pelahatchie.
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