In the Air Force, he was a career foreign area officer, serving several intelligence and international affairs assignments in the United States Pacific Command.

As an Olmsted Scholar, he received an International Master of Business Administration from the Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China.

During his time at the 31 TES, the squadron successfully executed the initial operational test and evaluation of the F-22 Raptor.

[4] Denaro was assigned at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, for three years after his Hawaii tour.

For a year after that, he served as chief of Global Hawk Modernization with the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center's RQ-4 System Program Office.

Denaro was assigned to the Pentagon from 2017 to 2019 as deputy director for special programs at the office of the under secretary of defense for intelligence.

[4] From 2019 to 2023, Denaro was assigned at Los Angeles Air Force Base, California, with the Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC).

[6][7] In June 2023, Denaro relinquished command of the Space Sensing Directorate and moved to the Pentagon to serve as senior military assistant to the under secretary of the Air Force.