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Prior to co-founding ISM Strategies, Bill held the position of Clerk and Staff Director of the Committee on Appropriations, U.S. House of Representatives. As Staff Director, Bill was responsible for supporting the Chairman of the Committee, the Honorable Hal Rogers (R-KY), directing the 120- plus staff of the committee, and working with the Members in the exercise of the Congress’ constitutional responsibility for the appropriation of the nation’s annual trillion-dollar budget for all discretionary programs and activities of the federal government. From February to June 2017, Bill served as a full-time Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.

From 2000 to 2010, Bill held several senior positions working for the Senior Vice President of Lockheed Martin Washington Operations, including Vice President, Global Security Policy; Vice President, Legislative Affairs; and Vice President, Plans and Policy. During his time with Lockheed Martin, Bill also worked closely with the senior corporate leadership, as well as the senior vice presidents responsible for International Business Development, Strategic Development, and the company’s various business sectors.

Prior to joining Lockheed Martin, Bill served as policy adviser on national security and trade affairs to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Honorable J. Dennis Hastert. As a senior policy adviser to the Speaker, Bill coordinated defense, intelligence, foreign policy, and trade policy for the senior Republican leadership under Speaker Hastert.

From 1995 to 1998, Bill served on the Committee on Appropriations in the House of Representatives and was assigned to the Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs. From 1993 to 1995, Bill served as the Executive Director of the 40 Member House Wednesday Group in the U.S. House of Representatives.

From 1990 to 1993, Bill served at the Department of Defense. He held the positions of Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Conventional Forces and Arms Control Policy. From 1985 to his joining the Department of Defense, Bill was a senior professional staff member on the Committee on Foreign Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives. Prior to 1985, he served as Legislative Director to Congressman Tom Coleman. He began his career as a technical information specialist at the Congressional Research Service.

Bill holds degrees from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Washington, D.C. and the Carleton University Center for Russian and European Affairs in Ottawa, Canada.

Bill’s awards include the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service and the Order of Merit Officer’s Cross, First Class, by the President of the Federal Republic of Germany for his contributions to German-American Relations.

Prior to joining the State Dept in his Senior Adviser capacity, Bill was a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the American University in Cairo, the Board of the American Research Center in Egypt, and as a Senior Adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

In the past, Bill has served on numerous boards, including: The Board of Directors of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, The Friends of the National Arboretum, the Washington Bach Consort, the Atlantic Council, the Asian Pacific Security Center, the Aspen Institute of Germany, the National Association of Manufacturers, and the Chamber of Commerce Foundation.

Bill has held the highest level of security clearances, including a TS/SCI security clearance.

Bill currently resides in Alexandria, VA. He is married to Mary Jane Madden, and they have two sons.

Prior to co-founding ISM Strategies, Ann served as Staff Director for the Minority of the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services. She reported to Senator John McCain (R-AZ), Ranking Republican Member of the Committee, and managed the Republican staff of the committee responsible for issues in the national security arena, particularly the annual defense authorization legislation. Ann ensured the committee staff coordinated with and supported the Republican Members of the committee and their staffs, as well as the Republican Leadership and members of the Senate.

Ann had previously served on the Committee staff for 14 years. Prior to re-joining the Senate Armed Services Committee staff, She was the owner of a consulting firm specializing in federal budget and fiscal policy information and insights. She provided advisory services to major defense corporations, worked with think tanks and analytical firms, and supported smaller entities through affiliations with other consulting firms.

From 2000 to 2011, Ann held several senior positions working directly for the Senior Vice President of Lockheed Martin Washington Operations, including Vice President, Acquisition Policy, Logistics, and Budget; Vice President, Network Systems and Advanced Development; and Vice President for Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and Coast Guard Systems Integration. During her tenure at the corporation, Ann worked directly with the senior leadership advising on all matters relating to the federal budget, identifying and prioritizing wide-ranging policy issues within the corporation or under consideration in the government, and developing and implementing the corporation’s strategies related to tax, environment, procurement, logistics and sustainment, and federal contracting policies and programs.

At one time, Ann managed the corporation’s Washington-based strategies related to C4ISR, advanced development, and unmanned systems programs and strategies, and led the Washington Operations team responsible for supporting the corporation’s Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Coast Guard programs for the Electronics Systems business area. She was the corporation’s federal budget expert, responsible for tracking and analyzing the federal budget, both defense and non-defense.

Before joining Lockheed Martin, Ann worked in the United States Senate for 23 years, including extensive experience as a senior professional staff member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Ann is currently a Senior Adviser to the Center for Strategic and International Studies. She serves on corporate boards and also served on the board of Women In Defense and Women in International Security.

Ann assists in preparing Administration nominees for their confirmation hearings before various Senate committees. She has held the highest levels of security clearance, including TS/SCI. Ann earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Liberal Sciences from Georgetown University, specializing in International Relations. She also received an Associate of Arts Degree in Business from Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio. Ann currently splits her time among homes in Mason Neck, VA; Swan Beach, NC; and West Farmington, OH.

From 2009 to July 2014, Steve served as the senior White House official for national security budgeting, as the Associate Director for Defense and International Affairs at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). In this role, he oversaw all US funding for defense, intelligence, international affairs and veterans programs.

He directed and managed the OMB national security staff’s review of the budget plans of the Department of Defense, the Department of State, the Agency for International Development, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Intelligence Community, the National Nuclear Security Administration, international programs in the Department of Treasury, and a number of smaller agencies. Mr. Kosiak also worked closely with senior White House and agency officials on a broad range of management and other policy issues.

Prior to joining the Administration in 2009, Steve was Vice President for Budget Studies at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. In this position, he wrote extensively on a wide variety of national security topics, ranging from weapons acquisition, to military compensation, to operations and support activities, and including analyses of space, air, naval, and ground programs, forces and budgets. Widely recognized as a national expert on the US defense budget and national security spending more broadly, Steve was frequently cited in the media and asked to testify before Congress. From 2001 to 2008, he also taught a graduate-level course on US Defense Planning and Budgeting at the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University.

From 1991 to 1996, Steve was a Senior Analyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, where he tracked, researched and wrote on a broad range of defense budget and policy issues. Before that, he was an analyst at the Center for Defense Information, where he studied and evaluated both defense and international affairs programs and spending. Steve earned his B.A. in History and Political Science, summa cum laude, from the University of Minnesota. He earned his Masters in Public Affairs in 1986 from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, and his J.D., cum laude, in 1998 from the Georgetown University Law Center.

Steve resides with his wife, Beth, and two dogs in Montgomery Village, Maryland.