Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
Booz Allen senior consultant Nicholas Foote performs 3D imaging work for a defense client. (Photo: Courtesy of company.)
About Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
8283 Greensboro Dr., McLean, Va. 22102
www.boozallen.com
| 703-902-5000
| Founded: 1914
Industry: Government And Professional Services | Category: Top Private Companies
In January 2006, the company restructured its management and named four new managing directors to lead the firm's worldwide business operations. All report to chief executive Ralph W. Shrader.
Early last year, the Air Force awarded a contract modification valued at as much as $56.6 million to Booz Allen for the operation of its survivability/vulnerability information analysis center. The company also won a 10-year contract from the Army's Communications Electronics Life Cycle Management Command. Booz Allen is one of seven prime contractors selected for the program, which has a funding ceiling of $19.3 billion.
In June, the firm was selected for a multibillion-dollar contract to provide support to the Department of Homeland Security. In July, it was awarded a five-year contract for $32 million to provide future warfare study and "wargaming" support to the Army's Training and Doctrine Command.
The firm was also among several contractors selected early this year to be part of a U.S. Agency for International Development effort to reduce poverty and promote economic growth in developing and transitional countries. USAID will spend as much as $3 billion on the project.
Also, the Navy awarded Booz Allen a contract worth as much as $48.5 million over five years to provide management support services to assist the Navy's director of material readiness and logistics.
In nongovernment consulting work, Dow Jones & Co. hired the firm to help in a companywide search for additional sources of revenue, including new blogs and other products. Booz Allen also completed a project for the College Board, confirming that the process for scanning SAT exams is reliable.
Chairman and CEO: Ralph W. Shrader
2007 Financial Data
Total employees: 18,914 | Local employees: 11,300Did You Know
Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. is an international technology and management consulting firm and one of the U.S. government's largest contractors. Its consultants work on projects related to national defense, health care, intelligence and for almost every department and agency of the federal government.
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