Generative AI

Leadership in GenAI

What sets Booz Allen apart is our end-to-end capability to operationalize GenAI. We don’t just discover promising technologies; we validate them through our prototyping facility, scale them via prime contracts, and integrate them seamlessly into mission workflows. This model delivers differentiated, U.S.-owned capabilities that strengthen national security while creating a flywheel of innovation and rapid AI deployment. 

Our sector-leading expertise spans the entire GenAI lifecycle, from engineering large-scale enterprise AI/machine learning (ML) solutions and agentic AI technology, to conducting technical research and development. We accelerate delivery through reusable technical assets that are proven and robust, increasing speed to value and furthering innovation. Importantly, we address the complex challenges associated with GenAI, including cost, privacy, bias, and accuracy, ensuring responsible and effective implementation.

These efforts are not theoretical—they’re already delivering mission impact across government, helping agencies navigate the evolving landscape of GenAI with confidence and agility.

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I’m Maggie Corry, chief engineer at Booz Allen. In partnership with industry leaders, we deliver ready-to-deploy customizable Generative AI solutions tailored to client needs. Today, so much data is scattered across different  formats with different jargon and terminologies. Our GenAI for data processing solution allows teams to make use of their messy, disparate data by automating how they extract, connect, and synthesize it. This improves accuracy, enhances interoperability, and streamlines workflows. Users can upload their data and ask plain language questions. Connections and insights that may have taken days are now found by agents in minutes. Let’s dive into how the solution works using a health data use case.

 

First, our GenAI solution ingests data from a variety of sources and formats, including structured, unstructured, and multimodal data. In this scenario, we have unstructured text in PDF health data, including doctor’s notes and lab test results across multiple patients. The solution creates a knowledge graph showing connections across the data that we’ve uploaded. To do so, it converts that data into a format that AI models can understand while preserving the original meaning, context, and nuance. Next, it identifies key entities such as patients and symptoms, their attributes, and relationships across the data. It also standardizes this data, such as identifying that hypertension and high blood pressure reference the same thing. The system links these entities to trusted knowledge sources, uncovering connections and contacts that might go otherwise unnoticed. Now you have structured and connected data that meets defined specifications and is ready for further analysis. Looking closer at this knowledge graph, you can see the complex relationships it has extracted. Let’s focus in on one cluster of the knowledge graph, a gene.

 

This gene has been linked to different entities such as lab test results, patients, and several different conditions such as Type 1 Diabetes. While this may take doctors days to piece together, our solution takes minutes to identify anomalies and patterns. The summaries tab has summaries of these findings. You can analyze this data on identified clusters, such as for patients with diabetes-like symptoms. The search tab allows you to insert queries such as SPARQL to better understand the relationships across the data. You can also use the chat feature with agenetic GraphRAG capabilities to carefully traverse the data mapped out in the Knowledge Graph. Here I’ve asked a question about the  gene and patients we just looked at. As you can see, the agents have tied together the disparate notes in lab data to give a comprehensive analysis of the patients, ultimately reducing exploration time for a doctor.

 

You can see in detail how the agents got to their answers to give confidence that the model is not hallucinating, which is a risk with generic chat bot implementation. Our GenAI for data processing solution makes sense of messy, disparate data. It automates the extraction, connection, and synthesis of information, turning scattered data into structured, useful insights that improve accuracy and streamline workflows. This saves time for any analyst providing them with insights faster. This solution works with various data types like chat logs, JIRA tickets, emails, meeting transcripts, and much more. It’s customizable and integrates seamlessly with your existing cloud infrastructure through one-click deployment.  Booz Allen’s GenAI for data processing—accelerating outcomes with  unprecedented speed and efficiency. 

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The Power of GenAI, Realized

As the trusted AI leader to the nation, Booz Allen provides comprehensive support to help agencies use GenAI to transform operations, taking into account its differences from traditional systems and other forms of AI in infrastructure and other areas. Support includes analyzing optimal uses of GenAI, quickly evaluating risk-reward tradeoffs, providing integration with leading platforms, and operationalizing new capabilities in applications central to the mission.

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AI Strategy and Evaluation

Drive transformation and operate with confidence
  • Use Case Identification and Prioritization
  • Enterprise AI and Data Architecture
  • Workforce Training and Change Management
  • Tech Scouting and Integration
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GenAI Mission Applications

Transform mission outcomes with tailored solutions
  • Automated Data Processing and Insight Generation
  • Automated Report Generation
  • Policy and Technical Knowledge Assistance
  • AI Agents for Workflow Orchestration
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Pipeline and Model Engineering

Architect and optimize advanced GenAI systems for peak performance

  • Solution Architecture Design
  • AI Engineering and Agent Development
  • Model Selection, Customization, and Optimization
  • Data Pipeline and Knowledge Base Engineering
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Commercial and Venture Tech Integration

Accelerate delivery of AI in production environments for operational use and fast-track breakthrough AI
  • Platform Engineering (Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Designs)
  • Infrastructure Integration
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GenAI Governance and Assurance

Build and maintain credible, dependable AI solutions

Federal Use Cases for GenAI

Numerous government use cases can be addressed by building upon GenAI’s core capabilities, which include automated knowledge and data management; text, audio, image, video, and code generation; and enhanced search and summarization.  We are already delivering solutions that tackle key federal use cases, including:

Automated Data Processing and Insight Generation

GenAI can empower federal agencies to integrate and analyze vast amounts of diverse, unstructured data from multiple sources (e.g., meeting transcripts, emails, databases, PDFs) uncovering hidden patterns and relationships. This enhances operational efficiency and overall mission effectiveness, from disaster response to economic policymaking.

Claims Processing and Policy Bot

GenAI can streamline benefits administration and claims processing, reducing backlogs and improving accuracy. By providing rapid and clear access to relevant information and decision support, GenAI ensures consistent policy application and faster processing times.

Intelligence Analysis and Document Processing

GenAI can act as a force multiplier for intelligence agencies, quickly analyzing large datasets, automating workflows, and aiding lead generation. It enhances analytical capabilities, improving efficiency, accuracy, and scalability without extensive hiring and training.

Automated Report Generation and Status Updates

GenAI can automate the creation of timely, accurate reports and status updates, standardizing the process and providing real-time updates. This improves decision making and reduces the effort spent on manual reporting.

Policy and Technical Knowledge Assistance

GenAI can provide instant, accurate responses to complex queries by leveraging agency-specific engineering manuals and policy documents, reducing the time staff spend searching for information. This ensures consistent interpretation of policies and technical standards, enhancing decision-making processes and operational efficiency.

Strategic Research and Innovation

GenAI can drive innovation and strategic research across various domains. From interactive scenario planning and prototype design to the discovery of new models in fields like protein folding or material science, AI can guide explorations that lead to transformative breakthroughs. This accelerates advancements in critical areas such as climate science, healthcare, and national security.

Getting Started With GenAI

Alison Smith, Booz Allen’s director of GenAI, discusses how federal leaders can take advantage of GenAI and how to avoid potential pitfalls.  

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My name is Alison Smith, and I’m a director of Generative AI at Booz Allen. We have some clients asking us, what is it? You know, they want to understand what generative AI is and how it’s different from some of its preceding technologies, right? But then you have other clients who are kind of ready and wanting to know what other organizations are already doing. And then finally, you have this other subset of clients, typically ones that are a little bit more advanced, who’ve done some pretty large kind of deployments of large language models where they might ask, you know, how is this going to change the platform that I already have? You know, what tweaks do I need to do to actually use it? And then lastly, all of them are always asking, you know, all my leadership is super excited about generative AI. How is it different than traditional AI and where does it actually make sense? Because I hear it’s very expensive. Generative AI introduces a lot of new challenges that traditional AI didn’t really have. The first one that really comes top of mind is interpretability. So the outputs of the generative AI system can be different every time, even if you ask it the same question. And so those outputs, you know, aren’t always interpretable. In fact, it’s really hard to explain why a generative AI system produced or created the sequence of words that it did. And in use cases where it’s really important to explain why a decision was made or why, you know, a report looks the way it does, it’s going to be really hard for generative AI system to explain that or for even a human to try to explain it. There are a few other challenges that include the bias in data. Generative AI systems have been trained on a whole lot of data, and you can’t even imagine what types of biases are inherent to that data. And that’s not something you can just pull out from a foundation model. And so it would be important to think about the guardrails that you need in place and having a human in the loop to make sure that we’re not perpetuating especially some harmful biases. Another one would be thinking about the security. So generative AI systems are very expensive to build, and you have these tech companies that are pouring in millions and billions of dollars into building these foundation models. And so you can’t expect your average organization to build one for themselves. And so they’re going to be using other people's tools and foundation models. And so we really need to think about how to keep that sensitive or proprietary data that these firms have secure when they’re using these external tools. And then lastly, we have to think about IP rights. All of that still remains very uncertain. A lot of the training data, some might argue, included some copyrighted or even patented information. And so it’s hard to say whether it’s okay for a foundation model to have that information. And if it accidentally produces output that was partially copyrighted, then, you know, is it okay to use it? And then lastly, the outputs that it does create, if that’s going to be some form of intellectual property for your enterprise or for any organization, you have to think about where policy is going on that and seeing whether you know, you can actually have rights to something that was created not by a human or your organization, but a generative AI system. The government holds itself to a much higher standard, than you have to necessarily for some companies, right? You have companies that can use generative AI for recommendation engines. In terms of you know, what movie to watch next or what clothing to buy. And those are relatively lower risk. And when you’re working with the federal government who have missions that really impact people’s entire lives, they have to maintain a standard that is much higher in terms of security and accuracy. And so while the government may be slower to act on generative AI, it’s going to be paving the way in terms of how it's thinking about policy for AI, how to maintain security and how to think about it from a very responsible and ethical framework. And I think those are all areas where you’re going to see the government innovate potentially even faster than industry because they have to. It’s sort of limitless at this point, and it’s really exciting to be at the precipice of something totally new that’s going to create a huge shift in how we do work.