is currently the Army Radiation Safety Officer working in the Office of the Chief of Staff of the Army, Army Safety Office. He and his staff develop, manage, and promulgate radiation safety policy and for workers on more than 100 installations worldwide, as well as deployed soldiers. Mr. Komp serves as the Career Program Manager for the Army Health Physicists, is a member of the Army Reactor Council, and serves as the technical expert for radiation safety matters for the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Environment, Safety, and Occupational Health. He also chairs the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposition Advisory Group and the DOD Ionizing Radiation Working Group.

Prior to this position Mr. Komp served as a senior health physicist for the U.S. Army Test, Measurement, and Diagnostic Equipment Activity where he managed the activity’s worldwide radiation safety program from 1991 to 2005 and was the Health Physicist for the U.S. Army Chemical School. Prior to his work as a Health Physicist, he served 6 y in the Army as a Chemical Officer and another 22 y in the Army Reserves. In addition to his daily duties, he represents the Army as a member of American National Standards Institute Working Group N43, and served as the DOD representative on the Presidential Task Force for Radiation Source Security, and the Interagency Steering Committee on Radiation Standards.

Mr. Komp has a BS in Chemistry from Gonzaga University and an MS in Health Physics from Georgia Institute of Technology. He has been a member of the National Health Physics Society (HPS) since 1986 and has served on the Health Physics Symposia Committee, the Continuing Education Committee, and the Homeland Security Committee. He was recognized as a Fellow of HPS in 2009. Mr. Komp is certified by the American Board of Health Physics. He served as Program Chairman for the 1998 Midyear Meeting held in Mobile, Alabama.