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The GovCon Briefing is a regularly scheduled 15-20 minute podcast hosted by FPSOnline. Episodes will feature industry experts who will talk about the history of federal government contracting and/or current events in federal government contracting impacting the industry. Each episode will give some insights into the decisions and regulations of the guiding principles of government contracting. 

In this episode, we interview Jonathan Kosarin, Government Contracts Attorney, and discuss the history of The Wright Brothers' Contract - signed by Orville and Wilbur Wright on 10 February, 1908 - which promised to "manufacture for and deliver to the United States of America (U.S. Signal Corps), One (1) heavier-than-air flying machine. It was the first successful performance-based contract in the U.S. military.

According to ACC (official U.S. Air Force Website), "without the contract awarded to the Wright brothers, we would probably not live in a world today as we know it. Military battles have been won and lost based on air planes. The development of the Army Air Corp, which evolved into our modern day Air Force, is a direct result of the effort put forth by the hard-working contract administrators of the day."
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  • Jonathan Kosarin
    DoD, IWTSD
    Jonathan H. Kosarin, Associate Counsel, Special Projects Division, is assigned to the Department of Defense Irregular Warfare Technical Support Directorate. He has over 42 years’ experience in acquisition, government contracting, and fiscal law. Mr. Kosarin previously served as Assistant General Counsel at the National Reconnaissance Office; Deputy Counsel, Special Projects Division; and, Associate Counsel, Naval Supply Systems Command. While on active duty as a JAG with the Army, he served as European Trial Attorney and Attorney Advisor at the U.S. Army Headquarters in Heidelberg, Germany, and as Trial Attorney, U.S. Army Contract Appeals Division.

    As an Army Reserve JAG, Mr. Kosarin served as Adjunct Professor of Contract Law/Chairman Contract and Fiscal Law Department at the Army Judge Advocate General's School in Charlottesville, VA; Acting Chief, Contract Law Division, U.S. Army Headquarters in Heidelberg Germany, and as Deputy General Counsel, Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office. He retired from the Army Reserve as a Colonel.

    Mr. Kosarin is an Adjunct Instructor of Procurement and Contracting at the University of Virginia and also teaches at the joint UVA/Virginia State Police’s National Criminal Justice Command College. He is an instructor with Federal Publication Seminars teaching courses in contracting, procurement and negotiations.
    Mr. Kosarin received his Bachelor of Arts degree (History), magna cum laude, from Syracuse University; his Juris Doctor degree, from Brooklyn Law School; and his Master of Laws degree in Government Procurement Law, from the George Washington National Law Center. Mr. Kosarin is a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and the Army War College. He is licensed to practice in New York and the District of Columbia.

    Mr. Kosarin serves as a Volunteer Information Specialist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. He is a certified football referee and has officiated high school football games for 48 years, including 3 Virginia High School League State Finals. Mr. Kosarin volunteers at the Animal Welfare League of Arlington. He is a volunteer at the National Museum of the United States Army at Ft. Belvoir Virginia. Mr. Kosarin is married to Gayle Kosarin, a retired special education teacher and resides in Reston, VA.
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