Jack Long
Director of Critical Infrastructure Protection
In more than 25 years of direct experience in emergency management, public safety, and risk analysis, Jack Long’s career has been marked by many “firsts.” He was the first non-Federal employee to receive the Department of Homeland Security/FEMA Under Secretary’s Award for Superior Service; he was one of the original architects of the Emergency Response Concept Plan, developed in the mid-80s for the Army’s Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program; and he set up one of the first regional emergency communications systems in a rural area, building what would later become the optimal infrastructure for integrating 9-1-1 services.
Mr. Long has developed policy and guidance documents, emergency response plans, special facility plans, emergency communications studies, and warning system design studies for the U.S. military chemical stockpile, commercial chemical industry, and the nuclear industry. He has conducted comprehensive assessments of on- and off-site emergency preparedness at all eight chemical weapons storage sites in the continental U.S., and helped the Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program (CSEPP) establish an award-winning risk-based approach for the allocation of resources, translating a Congressional mandate for “maximum protection” into specific and measurable goals using consistent and defensible tools and methodologies.
Mr. Long has overseen the development of several Web-based automated tools designed to streamline emergency management, including a planning template tool that allows state and local jurisdictions to develop emergency operations plans that are fully compliant with the National Incident Management System and a training tool for chemical sector employees focused on improving security awareness at chemical facilities. He also led the development of grant management software that is used by 79 organizations in 10 states and six Federal offices to manage a program with a life cycle cost of $2.7 billion.
Mr. Long has a Bachelor’s degree in Biological Health.
