Mr. Ronald J. Moeller
Mr. Ronald J. Moeller is the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategic Readiness. In this capacity, he oversees strategic readiness assessments; warfighter development, to include joint training and exercises, and individual and collective joint warfighter training and education; and readiness implications within the Department of Defense’s resourcing processes to drive readiness-informed outcomes across current and future resourcing cycles.
He served 38 years as an intelligence specialist and officer with the United States Air Force, the United States Army Military Intelligence Civilian Excepted Program, the Defense Intelligence Agency/Defense Clandestine Service, the Joint Chiefs of Staff/J2, and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
As a CIA Paramilitary Operations Officer he deployed overseas continuously after 9/11, with multiple deployments to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Uzbekistan, the Philippines, Bosnia, and numerous other locations. His final CIA assignment was as the Director, CIA’s representative to the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff’s Pakistan-Afghanistan Coordination Cell. After a brief four months of retirement, he was asked to return to Afghanistan as the Senior Advisor to the Commander, ISAF Joint Forces Command in Kabul.
Mr. Moeller has an M.A. in International Relations from Webster University, a B.S. and A.S. in Management from Park College, and an A.A.S. from the Community College of the Air Force. He is also a graduate from the U.S. Air Force Air War College seminar program and the Armed Forces Staff College.
He is the recipient of two U.S. Army Superior Civilian Service Awards, a Joint Civilian Service Commendation Award, numerous DNI, CIA, and DIA commendations and awards, the Joint Service Commendation Medal, two U.S. Air Force Commendation Medals, and the U.S. Army’s Combat Action Badge - a rare honor for a civilian.