Our Leader


Ben Long, President and CEO

Mr. Ben Long retired from the U.S. Navy after a distinguished 30-year military career. Mr. Long holds advanced degrees from Saint Louis University, Syracuse University, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Naval Postgraduate School, and diplomas from the Information Resources Management College at the National Defense University and the prestigious nine-month USMC Amphibious Warfare School.

Mr. Long is a Defense Acquisition University Level 3 Program Manager and is certified as both a DoD and Federal Chief Information Officer. He was a DoD Information Technology Program Manager for six years. In addition, he holds a number of other professional certifications, including Program Management Institute’s Project Management Professional (PMP) and International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP).

During his military career Mr. Long held a variety of assignments throughout the world, with his last 12 years of active duty served at the Office of the Secretary of Defense in Washington, DC. Six of those years he managed a $20 billion hybrid defense appropriation comprised of Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation; Procurement; and Maintenance and Operations; and for six years was the DoD IT Program Manager for a large information technology program management office, managing the secure development, deployment, and sustainment of a number of critical and complex worldwide IT projects/systems.

Since LongView’s inception Mr. Long has concentrated on acquiring highly qualified people for its projects; employees who are not only technically competent but also who first and foremost share the values he strived for and sought in others during his military career: responsiveness, high levels of integrity and ethics, and an invigorating and unwavering commitment to the clients’ needs.