Dr. Austin Long is a member of the AI-NC3 Executive Committee.

Dr. Austin Long is a senior fellow at MIT’s Center for Nuclear Security Policy. Dr. Long is a career member of the Senior Executive Service and was previously deputy director for strategic stability in the Joint Staff J5. In that role,  Dr. Long was responsible for the formulation of recommendations to the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff regarding strategy, plans and policy for a diverse array of strategic issues including nuclear weapons, space, cyberspace, electromagnetic spectrum operations, arms control, and autonomous weapons.

Prior to joining the Joint Staff, Dr. Long was a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation and an associate professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. Dr. Long’s research has appeared in a wide variety of publications.  He is also co-editor (with Charles L. Glaser and Brian Radzinsky) of Managing U.S. Nuclear Operations in the 21st Century (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2022). Dr. Long received his B.S. from the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.