Working with Security Industry Clients

Booz Allen Hamilton has long partnered with the U.S. national security and law enforcement communities to support their vital peacekeeping and security missions. As the world becomes more interconnected, the nature and scope of potential threats to democratic governments is changing. Our extensive experience with these communities enables Booz Allen to anticipate these changes. And our unsurpassed cross-functional services position Booz Allen as a leader in helping clients address them. Our expertise includes all source analysis; threat analysis and risk assessment; counterterrorism; bioterrorism preparedness; systems development; systems engineering and technical analysis; information technology, assurance, and resilience; and wargaming.

“We have staff that respond to inquiries and problems across the government, whether the Department of Homeland Security, civil agencies, the Department of Treasury, or the military services,” says Ken Wiegand, a senior vice president in Herndon, Virginia. “We have a long history of providing our U.S. security clients superlative support that’s aligned with their missions, and we have demonstrated that we are head and shoulders above other firms.”

McLean-based Vice President Chris Kelly adds, “We are known as the strategic integrator who works with governments to get the most value out of their investments, and our approach is to bring in multifunctional teams aligned to solve the client’s problem, as opposed to selling a certain methodology.”

Senior government leaders regularly call on Booz Allen for advice and insight in addressing their most pressing problems. One example is found in the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Central Command, where Booz Allen analysts provide mission support for day-to-day operations. “The nature of intelligence changed dramatically in the wake of 9/11,” says Christopher Ling, a Booz Allen vice president in McLean. “An entire analytic production system geared to detect large-scale cold war adversarial capabilities was suddenly required to transform. We are finding innovative ways to integrate intelligence and operations, enabled by advanced visualization and data management capabilities, which has allowed us to pioneer tactics, techniques, and procedures.”

In another engagement, the Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Collection and the Director of the United States Geological Survey retained Booz Allen to conduct an independent review of the future role of the Civil Applications Committee (CAC), an organization that facilitates, manages, and oversees remote sensing for civil or domestic applications involving Intelligence Community capabilities and products. Booz Allen has taken a lead role in implementing the study’s recommendations and continues to help CAC solve problems. “The study’s findings have become a road map for the government in making decisions related to critical information sharing in support of homeland security,” says Robert Evans, a senior associate in Booz Allen’s Herndon office.

“Many of the most urgent problems facing the intelligence and law enforcement communities today have to do with finding new ways to combine and share information,” says Wiegand. For instance, enhanced information sharing is a key aspect of our work with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.

story posted August 2007