Peter Fanta

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Peter Fanta

| image = Peter J. Fanta official photo.jpg

| nationality = American

| alma_mater = Harvard University (MPA)
Naval War College (MA)
U.S. Naval Academy (BS)

| office = Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Matters

| term = February 2018

| branch = US Navy

| serviceyears = 37

| rank = Rear admiral

| birth_place = Manitowoc, Wisconsin, U.S.

| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1961}}

}}

Peter Joseph Fanta{{cite web|url=https://www.congress.gov/nomination/102nd-congress/1420|title=PN1420 — Navy|date=6 October 1992|website=U.S. Congress|accessdate=2017-10-11}} (born 1961){{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T5DfAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA173 |title=Register of Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Navy and Reserve Officers on the Active-Duty List |page=173 |date=1 October 1984 |publisher=Bureau of Naval Personnel |accessdate=2020-11-28}} is a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Matters who served in February 2018.{{cite web|url=https://www.defense.gov/About/Biographies/Article/1478745/peter-fanta/|title=Peter Fanta|website=U.S. Department of Defense|access-date=2018-03-29}}

He is a retired Rear Admiral of the United States Navy. His final active duty assignment was as director of Warfare Integration. He previously served as Commander, Expeditionary Strike Group Five.

Biography

Fanta is a native of Manitowoc, Wisconsin.{{cite web|url=http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=651|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120419103934/http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=651|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 19, 2012|title=Rear Admiral Peter Fanta|publisher=United States Navy|accessdate=2011-09-30}} He holds an M.P.A. from Harvard University and an M.A. in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College.

Career

Fanta graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1983. He has served aboard the {{USS|Rushmore|LSD-47}}, {{USS|Falcon|MHC-59}}, {{USS|John Paul Jones|DDG-53}}, {{USS|Pegasus|PHM-1}} and the {{USS|Coontz|DDG-40}}. Other assignments have included serving as an executive assistant to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Financial Management and Comptroller).

As of December 2016, he was serving as the Navy's Director of Surface Warfare.{{Cite web|last=Staff|first=T. N. I.|date=2020-02-29|title=It's Only A Matter Of Time Before Railguns Are Deployed On Navy Ships|url=https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/its-only-matter-time-railguns-are-deployed-navy-ships-128407|access-date=2020-06-11|website=The National Interest|language=en}}

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