Steve Jacques
President

Steve Jacques is a professional consultant with more than 30 years of specialized experience in National Security Space and Intelligence programs. His unique expertise involves the ability to "horizontally integrate" the critical disciplines of program management, the Administration's budgetary process, and, particularly, the Congressional Authorization and Appropriation processes. He routinely interacts with the Space / Intelligence leadership throughout the Executive Branch and industry, members of Congress, and with professional staff members on the House and Senate Armed Services, Intelligence, Science, and Appropriations Committees. Mr Jacques is a registered lobbyist.

A retired Air Force officer, Mr. Jacques' early military career was focused on DoD Space expendable launch vehicle programs. Three years prior to the Space Shuttle Challenger accident, Mr. Jacques directly supported the Secretary of the Air Force's determination to replace a Space Shuttle-only National Space Launch policy with a complementary expendable launch vehicle capability, providing Assured Access to Space for certain critical DoD satellites. This national security campaign faced tremendous opposition from Shuttle supporters within the Administration and Congress. Fortunately, the Air Force's determination proved correct in light of the Challenger accident, at which time Mr. Jacques became a key architect in the Department of Defense's $10 billion Space launch recovery program.

Following a Pentagon assignment managing classified Air Force space programs, Mr. Jacques served as the Secretary of the Air Force's Congressional Liaison for the Service's Space and S&T programs and policies. He worked with his Air Force and Intelligence community counterparts, and congressional staffers alike to formulate strategies and advocate / negotiate Hill support on the Administration's key Space policies and programs.

Mr. Jacques was then assigned to the National Reconnaissance Office, serving as business manager for a new NRO program, and later as Comptroller for approximately half the NRO's budget. In Mr. Jacques' final Air Force assignment, he served as the Secretary of Defense's Legislative Liaison for the Department's Intelligence, Space, and Airborne Reconnaissance policies and programs. Among Mr. Jacques' accomplishments was serving as the Secretary's liaison with Congress in the aftermath of the Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia, and assisting the Congressional Committees in formulating and passing FY 1996 legislation that created the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA).

Upon his Air Force retirement in 1998, Mr. Jacques joined the Raytheon Company, where he served as the company's business development and Congressional Affairs director for the company's Space and Intelligence programs. In 2000, he formed Jacques & Associates, Inc., with over twenty years' experience working with Congress, and thirty years in Space & Intelligence programs overall. In January 2004, he co-founded and served for three years as Vice President of Operations for the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation, a 501(c) 3 non-profit Foundation established to promote the geospatial intelligence community.

Mike Tierney
Senior Associate

Mike Tierney, a graduate of the University of Virginia (B.A., 2003) and the Catholic University School of Law (J.D., 2006), joined Jacques and Associates in January of 2011.

He previously served in the 111th Congress as the Military Legislative Assistant for U.S. Representative Frank Kratovil (MD-1), then a member of the House Armed Services Committee. As the lead legislative advisor to Rep. Kratovil on Defense, Intelligence, and National Security policy, Mike has demonstrated success formulating legislative initiatives and gathering support from relevant constituencies on and off-the-Hill. He was the creative force and legislative liaison behind multiple successful amendments to both the Fiscal Year 2010 National Defense Authorization Act and the FY2011 NDAA. Mike also advised Rep. Kratovil on the appropriations process for Defense, MILCON, CJS, and Financial Services appropriations in both FY2010 and FY2011, including congressionally directed spending requests.

A native of Arlington, Virginia, Mike resides in Washington D.C. on Capitol Hill with his wife, Dr. Sarah E. Bouchard D.D.S., a dentist at Capitol Hill Dental Group.

Brian Paro
Senior Associate

Brian Paro joined Jacques & Associates full-time in August 2009, after previously interning with them in the spring of 2009. Brian is a graduate of the University of Iowa, having studied Journalism & Mass Communication and Political Science. Brian gained increased interest in government and politics while following the critical Iowa caucuses and the presidential campaigns while at school.