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Alan Brian Long Jr. is a Senior Policy and Doctrine Analyst at U.S. Cyber Command, where he serves as one of the foremost experts on DOD cyber policy and doctrine. He has 11 years of experience at Cybercom, and prior to arriving at the command, he served in the U.S. Marine Corps signals intelligence community. Brian is credited with authoring several notable cyber policy and doctrine documents within the DOD cyberspace operations community. He has deep institutional knowledge about the maturation of Cybercom and the broader DOD cyberspace operations community derived from over a decade of firsthand experience as a practitioner and action officer.