History of Booz Allen 2009
January 2009 — FORTUNE magazine names Booz Allen to its annual “100 Best Companies to Work For” list, for the fifth consecutive year.
January 2009 — Booz Allen releases “Toward Health Information Liquidity: Realizing Better, More Efficient Care from the Free Flow of Information.” Widely cited in the press, the paper examines ways health information and communications technology can accelerate progress toward a patient-centered healthcare system.
January 2009 — Booz Allen becomes a premier sponsor of FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), a not-for-profit organization whose mission to “inspire young people to be science and technology leaders.” The firm helps FIRST grow its regional programs, sponsors FIRST Robotics Competition teams, and donates grant funds, and hundreds of Booz Allen staff volunteer with FIRST individually.
January 2009 — J. Michael (Mike) McConnell rejoins Booz Allen as a senior vice president upon completion of his service as Director of National Intelligence.
January 2009 — A speech given by Booz Allen Chairman & CEO Ralph Shrader on the firm’s separation into two companies entitled “Don’t Tell Me the Future—Resilience, Not Prophecy, Is the Greatest Gift” is published in the January 2009 issue of Vital Speeches of the Day.
February 2009 — The contributions of 12 Booz Allen employees are recognized at the 2009 Black Engineer of the Year Awards conference.
March 2009 — To help government leaders and IT manager understand the potential benefits and pitfalls of cloud computing, Booz Allen creates and hosts a simulated “wargame” at FOSE 2009. Participants test strategies for using cloud computer to meet their agencies’ needs.
March 2009 — Booz Allen’s stand-alone business continues to thrive, with more than 20,000 employees and revenue in excess of $4 billion for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2009.
April 2009 — A report titled “Unmanned and Robotic Warfare: Issues, Options, and Futures” is released by the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. It synthesizes discussions and findings of a two-day Harvard Executive Session held in June 2008 in partnership with Booz Allen.
April 2009 — Booz Allen’s Honolulu office is named for the third time a “Best Place to Work in Hawaii.”
May 2009 — “Produce Safety Summit: Implications of Mandatory Safety Standards” is released. Providing an overview of an interactive simulation conducted in March by Booz Allen and the Produce Safety Project, the report assesses the implications of mandatory safety standards for produce.
May 2009 — Booz Allen’s office in Huntsville, Alabama, is named a “Best Place to Work.”
June 2009 — IDG’s Computerworld names Booz Allen to its annual list of the “100 Best Places to Work in IT.”
June 2009 — The firm’s Colorado Springs office earns the prestigious Cogswell Award for achieving high standards for security that go beyond National Industrial Security Program requirements. Less that 1% of nearly 12,500 cleared contractors in the US are selected to receive this award annually.
June 2009 — For the fourth consecutive year, the firm’s San Antonio office is a winner of a “Best Places to Work” award.
July 2009 — For the fifth consecutive year, Booz Allen sponsors the Aspen Ideas Festival, which assemble more than 175 of the world’s most respected and distinguished leaders—from diverse fields including art, science, culture, religion, philosophy, economics, and politics—in Aspen, Colorado, to address topics spanning world affairs, the global economy, arts and culture, life in America, and managing plant Earth.
July 2009 — In collaboration with Harvard Kennedy School Professor Steve Kelman, Booz Allen releases the results of an 18-month research effort in “What It Takes to Change Government.” Based on 250 interviews with federal agency personnel, the study determined which organizational strategies worked best for delivering effective, meaningful change in government.
July 2009 — “Cyber In-Security: Strengthening the Federal Cybersecurity Workforce” is published by Booz Allen and the Partnership for Public Service. The report examines current agency approaches to finding, hiring, and retaining cybersecurity talent; discusses concerns faced by hiring and information security managers; highlights their successes; and recommends changes.
August 2009 — Booz Allen and the Partnership for Public Service release “Unrealized VISION: Reimagining the Senior Executive Service,” a study that examines how the SES is structured, whether it has achieved its original goals, and how it can be improved.
September 2009 — Consulting magazine names Booz Allen “One of the Best Firms to Work For,” with a fifth place ranking.
September 2009 — In his address at the Gov 2.0 Summit, Booz Allen Executive Vice President Lloyd Howell discusses trust frameworks, contending that “the ability to enable individualized interaction through tools and technologies that citizens use every day represents a tremendous opportunity for federal agencies with citizen-facing missions.”
September 2009 — For the fourth consecutive year, BusinessWeek recognizes Booz Allen as a “Best Place to Launch a Career.”
September 2009 — For the firm’s longtime support of and involvement in the fight against Lou Gehrig’s Disease, the ALS Association presents Booz Allen with the inaugural Partnership for Success Award.
September 2009 — Working Mother magazine selects Booz Allen as a “100 Best Company” for the eleventh consecutive year.
September 2009 — Booz Allen achieves a 100% rating on the 2010 Corporate Equality Index and Best Places to Work Survey, which is administered by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation.
September 2009 — Booz Allen partners with Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business to create a Change Management Advanced Practitioner Program.
October 2009 — Booz Allen is one of the exclusive underwriters of “First Draft of History,” a forum held in Washington, DC, that featured 25 leading journalists interviewing 25 prominent figures about issues impacting the United States and its government. The event was sponsored by the Aspen Institute and The Atlantic magazine.
