Kosiak Heads to OMB

Steve Kosiak, an expert on the defense budget and national security spending, has been tapped by the new administration to be associate director for defense and international affairs at the Office of Management and Budget. He is the vice president for budget studies at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. Kosiak is also a professor for the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University, where he teaches graduate-level courses on U.S. defense budgeting and strategic planning.

And he is no stranger to readers of InsideDefense.com:

• Kosiak: Obama Faces Decision on Supplemental Spending Parameters (Dec. 18)
• CSBA Analysis Calculates Current, Future Costs of Iraq, Afghanistan Conflicts (Dec. 15)