LOUIS A. CHIARELLA is an attorney in the Washington, DC area with more than ten years experience specializing in government procurement law. In addition to his current position, he has previously served as Professor of Contract and Fiscal Law, Army Judge Advocate General's School, Charlottesville, Virginia; Chief of Administrative and Civil Law, Fort Carson, Colorado; and Trial Attorney, US Army Contract Appeals Division, Arlington, Virginia. Mr. Chiarella serves as Adjunct Professor of Contract and Fiscal Law, Army Judge Advocate General's School, Charlottesville, Virginia; and he is on the Board of Directors for the Hawaii Procurement Institute.

Bachelor of Arts degree, University of Notre Dame; Juris Doctor degree, State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo; Master of Arts degree, Catholic University of America; Master of Laws degree, Army Judge Advocate General's School.

KENNETH J. ALLEN is a general counsel in the private sector, and has practiced government law for over 28 years. Mr. Allen lectures frequently on government contract and fiscal law for Defense agencies, the American Society of Military Comptrollers, and the Army War College. His previous assignments have included Acquisition Counsel for the Army and Defense Information Systems Commands, legal advisor on fiscal law to the Defense Business Management University, administrative and labor lawyer for the U.S. Army in Europe and the Federal Labor Relations Authority, and several assignments as an active duty judge advocate. He is a graduate of the Brandeis School of Law, University of Louisville, the Army JAG School resident basic and advanced courses, the Army Management Staff College, National Defense University, and the Army War College.

JONATHAN H. KOSARIN is Assistant General Counsel at the National Reconnaissance Office and has over 30 years experience in Acquisition and Government Contracting. Mr. Kosarin previously served as Deputy Counsel, US Navy Special Projects Division; Associate Counsel, Naval Supply Systems Command; Associate General Counsel and Director of Procurement Law, Federal Home Loan Bank Board; European Trial Attorney and Attorney Advisor at the U.S. Army Headquarters in Heidelberg, Germany, and; Trial Attorney, U.S. Army Contract Appeals Division. He also served as an Adjunct Professor of Contract Law at the Army Judge Advocate General's School in Charlottesville, VA and as Deputy General Counsel, Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office.  

He is an Adjunct Instructor of Procurement and Contracting at the University of Virginia and also teaches at the National Criminal Justice Command College. Mr. Kosarin received a Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, from Syracuse University; a Juris Doctor degree, from Brooklyn Law School; and a Master of Laws degree in Government Procurement Law, from the George Washington National Law Center.

MICHAEL A. KILLHAM is the Director of Legal Operations for Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Division and Advanced Development Programs, aka “Skunk Works,” in Palmdale, California. He is responsible for all legal issues involving the site, including government and commercial contracting, subcontracting, export-import compliance, labor/employment law, and litigation management. Before joining Lockheed, he was a Senior Business Counsel for Raytheon Company; the General Counsel & Secretary of Thales-Raytheon Systems Company LLC, and Division Counsel for two operating divisions of Litton Industries, Inc. He has served as a Trial Attorney in the Civil Division (Procurement Fraud Branch), U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; as Senior Professor of Contract and Fiscal Law on the faculty of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's School, Charlottesville, Virginia; as a Trial Attorney for the U.S. Army Contract Appeals Division, Arlington, Virginia; and as a Criminal Prosecutor in Germany.

Mr. Killham received a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Military Academy at West Point, a Juris Doctor degree from Notre Dame Law School, and a Master of Laws degree (with emphasis on U.S. Government Procurement) from The Judge Advocate General's School. He is a graduate of the U.S. Army Infantry Officer's Basic Course, Ranger School, Airborne School, and Command and General Staff College, and has served in several positions as a company grade infantry officer in the 82d Airborne Division at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina.

Harlan Gottlieb has spent 23 years practicing Government contract law with extensive experience in source selections, foreign military sales, intellectual property and fiscal law.  He has appeared numerous times before the Government Accountability Office on contractor protests and before the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals on contractual disputes.

Mr. Gottlieb graduated on the Dean’s List at Washburn University School of Law in 1985.  He earned a Bachelor of Arts at Tulane University in 1978.  He is a member in good standing of the Missouri and American Bar Associations.
Mr. Harlan Gottlieb currently serves as the Chief Counsel for the Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI).  He supervises an office of 6 attorneys, a paralegal and administrative assistant.  He is responsible for providing the PEO organization legal support in contracts, personnel, ethics and fiscal law.  From 1987 to March 1995, he was an Attorney Advisor with the U.S. Army Aviation and Troop Command, now the Aviation Missile Command.  He provided contract and programmatic legal advice to the Program Mangers for the CH-47 and Apache programs.