Booz Allen's
Ideas Festival 2011

In the 2011 Ideas Festival, more than 500 ideas were submitted for consideration in the Ideas Contest, representing 67 US offices, 4 international locations, and more than 800 employees. Each of the firm’s capabilities and operating units was represented. From those, 12 ideas submissions were selected as finalists in the Ideas Contest, and each team presented their idea at the daylong Ideas Summit.

Senior leaders from across the firm selected four idea proposals from the finalists to receive investment funding.

2011 Investment Funding Recipients

• “Best Practices in Predictive Modeling to Reduce Fraudulent Medicare Claims”
  Bret Anderson, Associate, Washington, DC
•  “Driving the Paradigm Shift Towards Targeted Risk Management”
  Alex Cosmas, Associate, Boston
  Robert Love, Associate, Boston
  Kimberly Rudy, Consultant, Boston
• “Risk Analytics – Framework and Modeling of Linkage Associated Risk”
  Yongrui Fan, Senior Consultant, Rockville, MD
  Vivek Sinha, Senior Consultant, Rockville, MD
• “Secure Mobility Framework and Booz Allen Mobile Applications”
  Michael Gardner, Associate, Herndon, VA
  Ross Schwalm, Associate, Herndon, VA
  Michael Hylton, Associate, Herndon, VA
  Garrett Day, Sr. Consultant, One Dulles
  Hillary Dallas, Lead Associate, Herndon, VA

2011 Ideas Contest Finalists

• Policy and Regulatory Impact Analysis”— Evelyn Remaley Hasch, Erin Campbell, Kevin Stephen, Keisha Woods, Jennifer Li
• “Design of a ‘Central Market Exchange’ Service Offering to Contain Program Cost” — Matthew Dale
• “Data Fusion in Intelligent Video Solutions” — Tim Allen, Richard Coleman
• “Security Automation Content Development Editor (SACDE) to Enable Continuous Monitoring Data Exchange” — Chuck Wergin
• “Diagnostic Tool for Adaptive Capability” — Kent Myers, Jeff Herman, Debra Decker
• “The Human Capital Flight Simulator” — David Gilinson, Jim Williams
• “The Future of Telemobility” — Luke Purcell
•  "Idea Generation and Innovation Through Social Media” — Marnie Fienberg, Anne Glenzer, Kimberly Kern, Jessica Kemp, Amy Wilson, Michael Symons, John Lee