James "Jim" H. Haag is an Attorney-Advisor (Contract) with the Office of the Staff Judge Advocate, Space Systems Command, United States Space Force, U.S. Department of the Air Force (OAF). He provides legal advice to the Evolved Strategic Satellite, Commercial Space Office, and Mobile User Objective System program offices on contract law, fiscal law, intellectual property, ethics, Freedom of Information Act, claims, disputes, litigation, and export control matters. He has provided advice for multiple multi-billion-dollar Acquisition Category (ACAT) I source selections for OAF satellite programs (including one where the source selection authority was the Secretary of the Air Force), ground stations, and user equipment. He also provides advice regarding contact administration matters for those acquisitions, and provides advice for source selections and contract administration matters for large dollar value services acquisitions.
During his career, Mr. Haag was assigned to the Air Force's Intellectual Property Cadre, responsible for providing legal and policy advice to Secretariat, Air Staff and Portfolio Acquisition Executives regarding intellectual property, modular open system approaches, digital engineering, and artificial intelligence matters. He drafted the first handbook on rights in technical data and computer software ever issued by any military department or defense agency that describes a disciplined cradle-to-grave approach for acquiring such intellectual property rights. He was the Air Force representative to the Patent, Data and Copyright Team of the Defense Acquisition Regulation Council, a committee whose charter includes drafting proposed/final rules to revise Part 227 of the (now) Revolutionary Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (R-DF ARS).
Mr. Haag began his Federal career as a trial attorney with the Navy Litigation Office. There he tried cases at the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals on constructive changes, defective specifications, delay and disruption, cost allowability, defective pricing, unabsorbed overhead, and terminations for default. The contracts he litigated included shipbuilding, ship repair, supply and construction. He also assisted U.S Department of Justice attorneys drafting motions and briefs filed with the U.S. Court of Federal Claims and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. In 1995, he became a program attorney with the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (now the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command), providing legal advice on contract law, fiscal law, intellectual property matters, export controls, and ethics regulations pertaining to the acquisition of satellites, terminals, and advisory and assistance services. Mr. Haag has 34 published decisions to his name issued by five different Federal government contract forums.