Prior to arriving at the Academy in August 2009, Lieutenant Commander Ripley was the Sector Boston Intelligence Officer. While assigned there, he was also part of a D1 lead team that drafted the recently published Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Threat Assessment for LNG ships departing high risk countries. Prior to Sector Boston, he was an Atlantic Area Intelligence (Ai) maritime counterdrug analyst, networking with national level intelligence and collaborating counterdrug statistics for Coast Guard operational units and decision makers. While at Ai, he also provided statistical and editing support for the Interagency Assessment for Cocaine Movement, a national-level intelligence interagency publication. Prior to entering the Coast Guard Intelligence Program in 2002, he served at Group Saint Petersburg Florida, assigned as the Executive Officer’s Administrative Assistant, Group Duty Officer, Morale Officer, and Medical Officer. He is a 1994 graduate of Officer Candidate School.  

• Master of Science, Strategic Intelligence, Joint Military Intelligence College
• Bachelor of Science, Business Administration, Nichols College

• Undergraduate Intelligence and National Security Policy
• Coast Guard Intelligence Program Fundamentals Module, LDC

• Presentation, "Joint Information and Intelligence Sharing", Northeast Regional Harbormaster Association, United States Coast Guard Integrated Support Command, Boston, MA, June 2008
• Presentation, "Port of Boston Threat Assessment", Maritime Security Committee Boston, United States Coast Guard Integrated Support Command, Boston, MA, Feb 2008
• Numerous personally authored unclassified Coast Guard Intelligence Assessments 2002-2005. Please call for titles and access information

• Coast Guard Commendation Medal

• International Association of Intelligence Educators (IAIE)