Accelerating Technology Adoption in Government

Throughout government, collaboration to address urgent mission demands across the Department of Defense (DOD) and healthcare is helping cut the time needed to adopt emerging technology. From first responders to frontline warfighters, the opportunities for human performance technologies to accelerate training and recovery are immense. Let’s use the example of the warfighter to dig deeper. Stresses on the warfighter today—from longer and more frequent deployments and higher levels of fatigue and sleep loss to worsening injury risks and cognitive challenges—are hindering the preparedness of DOD forces to execute missions.

An increasingly effective way to accelerate readiness is with human performance technologies that provide the support tactical athletes need to excel. Recent advances in wearable devices, AI, and extended reality are enabling solutions that help warfighters and first responders sustain high levels of physical and mental resilience. In this arena, technology adoption success shows the value of leveraging the full strength of the national tech ecosystem and compressing lifecycle phases like testing and mission customization into a single process. This approach is bringing insight-driven readiness to the mission faster—all to mitigate injury risks, speed recovery time, and deliver holistic assists to warfighters’ cognitive and overall wellbeing.

DOD generates and collects often massive amounts of raw data every day. This growing flood of information provides the basis for a host of mission-essential processes and activities, from logistics and construction to complex decision making at the tactical edge. To equip warfighters and others with actionable insights faster, the agency needs advanced AI and analytics tools to automate how it integrates and processes information streams from both internal and external sources.

When DOD needed a unified program to integrate financial and other data from across the organization, Booz Allen helped the department design and deploy Advana. Advana is a centralized platform that offers users at all levels unprecedented access to authoritative enterprise data and structured analytics. The solution’s scalable, reliable, and secure environment incorporates a range of capabilities from decision support and visualizations to data tools and associated services.

Through Advana, common data models, natural language discovery, and self-service analytics enable efficient gathering and interpretation of insights for faster, more accurate mission decisions across core functions, including logistics and readiness. A strong return on investment has resulted from Advana’s ability to drive cost avoidance through increased efficiency, visibility into key processes, and decision-making effectiveness.

Booz Allen’s ongoing mission-intimate support of Advana has helped DOD extend adoption beyond the finance function and into many other areas like climate risk, readiness, logistics response, and resources. Today, more than 80,000 DOD mission owners, analysts, and data scientists across approximately 80 organizations use Advana to manage a growing array of enterprise systems central to modern defense missions.