Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation (informally Booz Allen)[4] is the parent of Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., an American government and military contractor, specializing in intelligence.[5] It is headquartered in McLean, Virginia,[6] in Greater Washington, D.C., with 80 other offices around the globe. The company's stated core business is to provide consulting, analysis and engineering services to public and private sector organizations and nonprofits.[7][8]
For other uses, see Booz Allen Hamilton (disambiguation).Company type
- NYSE: BAH
- Russell 1000 component
June 18, 1914
Horacio D. Rozanski (President & CEO)
John Michael McConnell (Vice Chairman)
Management and Technology Consulting
US$10.7 billion (2024)
US$1.01 billion (2024)
US$606 million (2024)
US$6.56 billion (2024)
US$1.05 billion (2024)
34,200 (2024)
Research and publications[edit]
Booz Allen has been credited with developing several business concepts. In 1957, Sam Johnson, great grandson of the S.C. Johnson & Son founder, and Booz Allen's Conrad Jones published How to Organize for New Products[59] which discussed theories on product life-cycle management.[60][61] In 1958, Gordon Pehrson, deputy director of U.S. Navy Special Projects Office, and Bill Pocock of Booz Allen Hamilton developed the Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT).[62][63] In 1982, Booz Allen's Keith Oliver coined the term "supply chain management".[64] In 2013, Booz Allen's Mark Herman, Stephanie Rivera, Steven Mills, and Michael Kim published the Field Guide to Data Science.[65] A second edition was published in 2015.[66] In 2017, Booz Allen's Josh Sullivan and Angela Zutavern published The Mathematical Corporation.[67]
Controversies and leaks[edit]
SWIFT[edit]
In 2006, at the request of the Article 29 Working Party (an advisory group to the European Commission), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Privacy International (PI) investigated the U.S. government's SWIFT surveillance program, and Booz Allen's role therein. The ACLU and PI filed a memo at the end of their investigation, which called into question the ethics and legality of a government contractor (in this case Booz Allen) acting as auditors of a government program, when that contractor is heavily involved with those same agencies on other contracts. The basic statement was that a conflict of interest may exist. Beyond that, the implication was also made that Booz Allen may be complicit in a program (electronic surveillance of SWIFT) that may be deemed illegal by the European Commission.[68][69]
Homeland Security[edit]
A June 28, 2007 article in The Washington Post related how a United States Department of Homeland Security contract with Booz Allen increased from $2 million to more than $70 million through two no-bid contracts, one occurring after the DHS's legal office had advised DHS not to continue the contract until after a review. A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on the contract characterized it as not well-planned and lacking any measure for assuring valuable work to be completed.[70]
According to the article:
