This June 14, the United States Army celebrates its 250th birthday, and Tobyhanna Army Depot is immensely proud to remain a leading readiness provider after more than a quarter of those years.
Much like the Army is one year older than the nation it defends, the citizens of Tobyhanna and the surrounding community have been serving our nation before Tobyhanna Army Depot, or Tobyhanna Signal Depot as it was called at the time, opened its doors Feb. 1, 1953.
The Army’s origins in Tobyhanna can be traced to 1912 when Maj. Charles P. Summerall leased more than 20,000 acres of land for a field artillery training site. In the 40 years prior to the depot beginning to officially serve the nation, the grounds of the installation went by several names and served our nation in several ways.
Tobyhanna served as a tank and ambulance training center during World War I, artillery training center for over two decades, storage point for D-Day gliders, a camp for the Civilian Conservation Corps, a World War II prisoner of war camp, and a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers site.
When Tobyhanna Signal Depot began serving the nation, its vital and lasting readiness and community impacts were felt immediately. Its proximity to ports and electronics manufacturers made it an ideal site for the nation’s first permanent Signal Corps depot on the east coast, and civilians eager to serve their nation applied in waves.
Tobyhanna Army Depot, as it has been known since a 1962 Army-wide reorganization, is a global organization providing readiness for warfighters where and when they need it. On any given day, more than 15% of the depot’s 3,100-strong workforce is outside the gates to meet the needs of the joint warfighter with peak efficiency.
Northeastern Pennsylvania’s largest industrial employer, Tobyhanna Army Depot creates 5,550 community jobs, employs a workforce of 24% veterans, and creates $2.4B of economic impact in the surrounding community which has advanced its mission for nearly a century.
Over the course of serving the nation for seven decades, Tobyhanna has adapted to adhere to its mission. In a testament to proactive leadership and investment, a dynamic workforce of civilian patriots, and a vast portfolio of capabilities, Tobyhanna Army Depot has always answered the call of our nation’s warfighters in the ever-evolving world of warfighter readiness.
Though the systems depot artisans work on may look dramatically different, Tobyhanna Army Depot’s mission has never wavered – providing the best value to our nation’s warfighters.
Serving as the U.S. Army’s Center of Industrial and Technical Excellence for Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR), Electronics, Avionics and Missile Guidance and Control, Tobyhanna Army Depot has a long history of upping the standard for our nation’s warfighters through work on invaluable assets from shelters to tactical radios.
Today, Tobyhanna Army Depot remains as well-positioned as ever to continue delivering on that promise with over $1B of investments into infrastructure modernization and investments into capabilities like unmanned aerial systems, cable fabrication, and the fifth C of C5ISR, cyber, that will ensure warfighter supremacy on the battlefield of the future.
Tobyhanna Army Depot is proud to be a part of the Army’s story as it turns 250. Serving our nation and the warfighters who so selflessly protect it remains not just an objective, but a non-negotiable mission championed by a workforce and community united in warrior ethos and American pride. Here’s to the next 250 years!
Celebrating the history of Tobyhanna Army Depot and its commitment to serving our nation’s warfighters is directly aligned with Tobyhanna Army Depot’s long-range strategic plan, TOBY2035, and specifically the Strategic Communications line of effort. The plan, which has three additional focus areas, strives to position Tobyhanna for success in the coming years as the Department of Defense's premier worldwide C5ISR readiness provider.
TYAD is a recognized leader in providing world-class logistics support for command, control, communications, computers, cyber, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C5ISR) systems across the Department of Defense. Tobyhanna’s Corporate Philosophy, dedicated work force and electronics expertise ensure the depot is the joint C5ISR provider of choice for all branches of the Armed Forces and industry partners.
Tobyhanna’s unparalleled capabilities include full-spectrum logistics support for sustainment, overhaul and repair, fabrication and manufacturing, engineering design and development, systems integration, cyber support, technology insertion, modification, foreign military sales and global field support to our joint warfighters.
About 3,100 personnel are employed by Tobyhanna. While the organization’s headquarters is located in the Pocono Mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania, Tobyhanna’s worldwide workforce includes employees in 43 fixed locations across the globe.
Tobyhanna Army Depot is part of the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command. Headquartered at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, the command’s mission is to deliver integrated C5ISR weapon systems, business systems, and medical sustainment to enable full spectrum combat operations at the point of need.
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