Former Director, Defense Intelligence Agency
Lieutenant General Robert P. Ashley, Jr. is a career Army intelligence officer having served over thirty-six years on active duty. He retired from the Army on 1 November 2020.
His final assignment was as the 21st Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency from October 2017 to October 2020 where he reported directly to the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security and the Secretary of Defense.
In 2016 he was appointed the Army Deputy Chief of Staff, G-2. He was the senior advisor to the Secretary of the Army and Army Chief of Staff for all aspects of Intelligence, Counterintelligence and Security, and responsible for the training, equipping, policy and oversight of the Army Intelligence Corps’ 58,000 Soldiers and civilians