The Honorable Mary Beth Long has served as an AeroVironment director since August 2023 and sits on the Nominating & Corporate Governance and Cybersecurity Committees. She served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense from 2007 to 2009 -- the first woman confirmed to a four-star military-equivalent position by the U.S. Senate -- after 17 years of intelligence and defense-related government service. She is principal of the law firm MB Long & Associates, PLLC, and previously founded and sold the government-contracting firm Metis Solutions.