Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments
1730 Rhode Island Ave. NW, Suite 912
Washington, DC 20036
202-331-7990
202-331-8019 fax

CSBA is an independent public policy research institute established to promote innovative thinking about defense planning and investment strategies for the 21st century.

Steven M. Kosiak, Director of Budget Studies

Areas of expertise: defense budget and defense budget trends, funding for homeland security and combating terrorism, weapons modernization programs, personnel and readiness spending, cost and affordability concerns, force structure, funding for contingency operations, funding for military transformation.

Steven M. Kosiak is the author of CSBA's annual defense budget reports, including the same day analysis of the president's defense budget request, and selected issue reports including Buying Tomorrow's Military: Options for Modernizing the Defense Capital Stock and Options for U.S. Fighter Modernization. He is the co author of A Strategy for a Long Peace and he contributes extensively to all CSBA research activities. Mr. Kosiak is a frequent speaker on defense issues, including readiness and modernization programs, and the defense budget process. He holds a BA from the University of Minnesota, an MPA from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, and a JD from Georgetown University.