CSBA welcomes new defense budget analyst

The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments announced today it has a new defense budget analyst.

Katherine Blakeley has joined CSBA as a research fellow focused on defense budgeting and resourcing.

The announcement comes six months after Todd Harrison, a prominent defense budget analyst, left CSBA for the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

“Katherine could not have joined CSBA at a better time,” Jim Thomas, CSBA's vice president and director of studies, said in the announcement. “One of our core competencies is evaluating the Department of Defense’s current and future programming decisions for this country’s policy makers. Katherine’s experience and expertise will ensure our appraisals during the upcoming 2017 federal budget season are relevant and well-timed.”

Prior to joining CSBA, Blakeley worked as a defense policy analyst at the Congressional Research Service and the Center for American Progress. She is completing her Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she also received her M.A, according to CSBA.