LtCol Jack Long PhD

Acting Navy Chief AI Officer

Office of Naval Research [ONR]

Dr. Jack Long is a Marine Reservist at the Office of Naval Research, where as an IMA he served as the Deputy to the Navy Chief AI Officer, Brett Vaughan, since 2020. He was activated to full-time service in June 2023 to backfill upon Mr. Vaughan’s retirement at the end of June. He holds a PhD from Johns Hopkins University, having done his undergraduate and doctorate work there. Upon finishing his PhD work in 2005, he joined the Marines and was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Marine Corps. He spent eight years on active duty, deploying six times to Central Command in support of OIF, OEF, and other operations.
After leaving active duty, he attended the University of Oxford, where he earned an MBA, graduating with distinction. He stayed on at the University in an Innovation Fellowship, working to build startups based on University IP, and was the CEO-designate of an early-stage spinout. He returned to the states and joined McKinsey & Company, working out of the DC office, where he worked on numerous strategy and transformation projects with clients in the public, private, and government sector. He was recruited to lead the post-merger integration efforts in the North American Business Unit of IDEMIA, the world’s leader in Augmented Identity. He stayed on as a leader in the strategy, innovation, and corporate development functions before leaving to join a boutique startup A&D consulting firm, helping to grow it into an elite firm that partners with clients to help them solve some of their thorniest strategy, operations, and transformation challenges.

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