Bob Ashley is a retired Army Lieutenant General with thirty-six years of leadership, operational, and combat experience in intelligence.  In his last position he served as the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.  He also served as the senior intelligence officer in the Army, commandant for the Army’s Intelligence Center and School, senior intelligence officer for the Joint Special Operations Command, Central Command, and International Security and Assistance Forces Afghanistan. Since leaving the Army in 2020, he has focused on national security issues supporting several advisory boards.