Defense

Global Defense at Booz Allen Hamilton

Elusive enemies… emerging technologies… unpredictable threats.

Booz Allen Hamilton has made support for national defense a core mission since 1940, when founding partner Edwin Booz helped U.S. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox gear up for World War II. Now more than ever, mission success depends on the ability to continually adapt thinking and operations.

With the perspective, experience, and know-how from battlefields and boardrooms, the global strategy and technology consultants at Booz Allen can help you achieve your goals. Whether you're managing today's challenges or looking out over the horizon, you can count on our consultants to help you be ready for what's next.

Booz Allen is committed to delivering results that endure.

Learn more about our capabilities in specific markets:

• Air Force—Booz Allen provides integrated services and solutions to Air Force headquarters and every major command, supporting every key functional area, including requirements, acquisition and planning, and programming, budgeting and execution.
• Army—Booz Allen has supported the US Army across the entire scope of its responsibilities for more than 60 years. We address Army challenges at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels so our clients are ready for today and for what’s next.
• Joint Staff and Combatant Commands—Booz Allen provides strategic consulting and mission-critical support to all the Joint Staff directorates and every combatant command. We assist in areas ranging from integrated intelligence gathering and information operations to concept and capability development, contingency operations, and defense transformation.
• Navy and Marine Corps—Booz Allen helps the US Navy address its most complex fiscal and operational challenges. Many of our consultants are retired naval officers and service members, allowing us to blend Navy experience with Booz Allen’s broad perspective, including our ability to build on lessons learned, apply best practices, and leverage decades of success in organizational transformation.
• OSD and Defense Agencies—Booz Allen works with almost every major organization within the Office of the Secretary of Defense and DoD’s defense agencies, where we provide leading-edge technology, analyses, and solutions to address the full range of threats and opportunities in today’s complex national security environment.
• Space— Booz Allen has a long history of supporting major space initiatives for defense, civil, and Intelligence Community space organizations, partnering with clients such as the National Space and Aeronautics Administration (NASA), Air Force Space Command, Air Force Space & Missile Systems Center, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA).

Our Capabilities

We support defense clients at all levels—senior executives, warfighters, acquisition managers, technologists, and program managers—with the entire spectrum of our Booz Allen’s strategy consulting and technology expertise. We offer capabilities in the following areas:

• Assurance and Resilience
• Disaster Preparedness Planning and Exercises
• Economic and Business Analysis
• Information Technology 
• Intelligence and Operations Analysis
• Modeling and Simulation
• Organization and Strategy
• Supply Chain and Logistics
• Systems Engineering and Integration

Career Opportunities

Explore career opportunities at the leading edge of defense innovation at Booz Allen.

Case Studies

• Helping Injured Soldiers and Their Families:  The US Army Wounded Warrior Program—This case study outlines how Booz Allen led new communications and collaboration initiatives that connected and invigorated the US Army Wounded Warrior Program (AW2).
• Technical Security Evaluations—Booz Allen delivers rigorous security testing and evaluation of the Research in Motion (RIM) BlackBerry® Smart Card Reader, ensuring secure, reliable mobile communications for the Army and, ultimately, all the military services.
• Innovative Network Solutions—Booz Allen delivers innovative solutions to the battlefield through its partnership with the Defense Information Systems (DISA) Network Operations Warfare facility (NOWF), a leading-edge defense laboratory that develops and tests emerging technologies for military networks, applications, and satellite communications.
• Fostering Federal Partnerships for Homeland Defense and Security—Responding to an urgent need for a comprehensive database of geospatial information about the US domestic infrastructure, the Department of Defense asked Booz Allen to support and facilitate the multi-agency Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-level Data (HIFLD) Working Group.
• Transformation for Change: Defense Telecommunications Services-Washington (DTS-W)—Booz Allen collaborated with DTS-W to reduce overhead fees by $75 million, increase both customer and employee satisfaction, and expand its customer base.
• Natural Infrastructure Asset Management—Booz Allen delivers a new, dynamic strategy for managing natural assets that enables DoD's military installations and ranges to partner with government, business, private land owners and environmental organizations on broad-based conservation efforts that sustain both the environment and military mission.

Additional Information

• Caring For Our Troops, Partnering With USO—As a USO Worldwide Strategic Partner, the firm contributes its consulting expertise to serve the men and women in the U.S. armed forces.
• Defense Information Systems Agency Awards ENCORE II IT Support and Services Contract to Booz Allen Hamilton—Firm to help design, develop, and implement the next generation of IT architecture.
• DoD and AFEI Present First Ever Enterprise Architecture Achievement Awards—The DoD and Association for Enterprise Integration honor people and programs that leverage the power of architecture in enterprise management.
• Ground Vehicle Analysis—Booz Allen Can Help— We can plan, develop, test, and implement new vehicle programs and improvements.
• Booz Allen's Joint Mission Area Analysis Tool (JMAAT)—This web-based information management tool simplifies complex problems by visualizing architectures.
• Intelligence—Learn more about the people, resources, and expertise we bring to our engagements.
• One-Stop Defense Shopping—A Washington Post op-ed column by Booz Allen vice presidents and defense experts Ron Kadish and Dov Zakheim on competitive diversity.
• Wounded Warriors—Taking Care of our Nation's Heroes—A groundbreaking program in collaboration with the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs to transform the delivery of health care, benefits, and transition assistance.
• 1% IT in Aerospace and Defense—Reducing Costs While Increasing Capability—An in-depth look at organizations that have achieved a step change in performance.
• Military of Millennials—How can the military services prepare for the next generation of Internet-savvy soldiers?
• Intelligence and National Security Experience—Booz Allen helps major national security, intelligence, and law enforcement agencies use and protect vital information.