Civil Government

Citizens rely on government to deliver the services they need when they need them; government agencies rely on Booz Allen Hamilton to help improve their capability to meet this expectation. Booz Allen provides high-level management and technology consulting services to federal, state and local agencies, and not-for-profit organizations. Our work spans the full breadth of civil government including health and benefits, finance, energy, environment, international development and diplomacy, law enforcement, space, and transportation.

A consultant of choice to government agencies for more than 60 years, Booz Allen has won numerous awards for exceptional work in government consulting and advancing innovation. Few consulting firms can match our range of experience, and clients draw from our insight, perspective, and expertise to drive change and build the business and technology systems required to effectively and efficiently offer the services citizens demand and deserve. Booz Allen’s thought leadership helps clients successfully navigate the transformation lifecycle, optimize agency operations, secure cyberspace, achieve sustainability, and grasp the promise of the megacommunity, a global, multi-sector approach to conquering the world’s toughest problems.

Learn more about our specific capabilities in specific markets

• Benefits and Entitlements — Booz Allen works with government agencies devoted to providing citizen services—from health to education and economic security. In addition to strategic and operational consulting, Booz Allen provides technical advice to governments and not-for-profit entities that work to improve the quality of citizens’ lives.
• Energy — Booz Allen is working across government agencies to improve energy efficiency, procure energy more efficiently, and diminish dependence on fossil fuels. We work with key agencies, including the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense, to develop programs to support conservation, examine the energy infrastructure and help drive the development of alternative energy sources, including nuclear power.
• Environment — Booz Allen helps solve environmental and natural resource management challenges for government agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Interior and the Department of Defense, which confronts large-scale environmental issues at facilities around the world. We provide thought leadership in sustainability, environmental resource management, and infrastructure transformation.
• Finance — Booz Allen has done pioneering work with government finance agencies including the Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Department of Treasury. We help finance agencies design and execute strategies to improve cash and payment management, operations, regulatory oversight, and develop investigational tools to protect the security of the nation’s financial systems.
• Health — Booz Allen partners with government clients on groundbreaking projects that help achieve public health missions. From entitlement reform, envisioning a national health information network, mitigating risk to populations and government infrastructure, or facilitating an international public-private sector dialogue on international health issues, Booz Allen is working to help government and non-governmental organizations safeguard public health.
• International Development & Diplomacy — Booz Allen works with government and not-for-profit organizations to provide strategies, management expertise, and technical assistance to countries struggling to achieve economic growth and stability. We help develop programs to alleviate poverty, improve education, and encourage the development of modern and effective new government and civil institutions.
• Law Enforcement — Booz Allen brings management consulting and technical expertise to developing new systems, information technology, and strategic vision to law enforcement and other government agencies combating traditional crime and terrorism, and engaged in counter-intelligence and cyber-security.
• Space — Booz Allen partners with government clients to introduce best commercial practices and strategically manage and run systems using mission engineering, systems engineering and integration (SE&I), logistics planning, technology development, IT infrastructure, Total Baseline Integration, cost and budget analysis.
• Transportation — Booz Allen supports the U.S. Department of Transportation and state and local transportation authorities to develop the next generation of the nation’s transportation system across all modes – aviation, rail, highways, and marine.

Our Capabilities

Booz Allen provides a full range of consulting services from strategy through design to implementation of management systems and technology solutions. We offer full life-cycle project and programmatic support for physical, organizational, and technological infrastructure. Our capabilities include:

• Assurance and Resilience
• Economic and Business Analysis
• Information Technology
• Intelligence and Operations Analysis
• Modeling and Simulation
• Organization and Strategy
• Safety and Security
• Science, Technology and Innovation
• Supply Chain and Logistics
• Systems Engineering and Integration

Career Opportunities

Explore career opportunities at the leading edge of civil government at Booz Allen.

Additional Information

• Successful Strategies for Government Leaders — Booz Allen study investigates factors that contribute to significant organizational and cultural change in US government agencies.
• Partnership for Public Service and Booz Allen Release Recommendations To Help Uncle Sam Bring on New Employees - And Keep Them! — Report recommends that federal agencies implement a four part strategic onboarding model that outlines steps to integrate and acculturate new employees.
• The Megacommunity Way: Mastering Dynamic Challenges with Cross-Boundary Leadership — Some complex problems require a conscious and concerted effort, orchestrated from many sectors of society through an initiative known as a "megacommunity."
• How the U.S. Government can cut overhead — By using in-house agencies to provide services to other departments that need them, the federal government is saving tens of billions of dollars and learning what some in the private sector already know.
• GovBenefits - Building a One-Stop Shop for Screening Eligibility & Applying for Government Benefits — How do you get 10 federal agencies to collectively turn thousands of web pages for hundreds of government benefit programs into a single, easy-to-use tool to help citizens find benefit programs? Read how Booz Allen Hamilton worked with OMB, the Department of Labor and nine federal agencies to develop GovBenefits.
• The Global AIDS Crisis — A strategic simulation to explore public/private partnerships in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
• Unrecognized Assets — Environmental liabilities–even abandoned oil platforms and polluted wetlands–are hidden sources of value.
• Lights! Water! Motion! — The world’s urban infrastructure needs a $40 trillion makeover. Here’s how to reinvigorate our electricity, water, and transportation systems by integrating finance, governance, technology, and design.
• Booz Allen Named Best Consulting Firm to the Air Traffic Management Industry — An unmatched blend of management, business, and technical consulting earns the firm the Air Traffic Management magazine honor.
• Innovative Pilot Program Uses Mobile Phones To Pay for Transit Rides, Food — Booz Allen and partners launch a four-month trial program at San Francisco’s BART transit system – the first in the nation -- to use mobile phones to pay for both fares and food at quick-serve restaurants, and reload the mobile “wallet” over the air.
• Influenza Pandemic Simulation—Implications for the United States — An influenza pandemic will be unlike any crisis today’s government or business organizations have ever experienced. The Center for Health Transformation and Booz Allen Hamilton engaged nearly 100 leaders from the public and private sectors to work through a simulated influenza pandemic.
• "Aligning IT and Business Is Priority for Public CIOs" — On April 14, 2008, Government Technology’s Public CIO cited Booz Allen Vice President Robin Portman in an article about how CIOs are working to ensure their IT projects meet or exceed business users' expectations by aligning overall strategy with business processes.
• On November 27, 2007, CIO magazine cited Booz Allen Vice President Michael Farber in an article about the strategies to mitigate the increasing complexity of IT as it enables new business.
• Wounded Warriors – Taking Care of our Nation's Heroes — Booz Allen employs an innovative approach to evaluate and fully understand the Wounded Warrior range of care.