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Booz Allen Hamilton, one of the oldest management consulting firms in the world,[1] is a private corporation with headquarters in McLean, Virginia and over 100 offices on 6 continents. Booz Allen is wholly owned by its approximately 300 officers. Dr. Ralph Shrader is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the firm - the seventh chairman since the firm's founding in 1914. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... A private company is a company that is independently owned. ... Year 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Management consultant redirects here. ... Management consultant redirects here. ... Information technology consulting (IT consulting or business and technology services) is a field that focuses on advising businesses on how best to use information technology to meet their business objectives. ... Look up revenue in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article is about work. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... Management consultant redirects here. ... Boundaries of the McLean CDP as of 2003. ...

Booz Allen's commercial business competes with firms like McKinsey & Company, The Boston Consulting Group, and Bain & Company to work with leading corporations on projects involving strategy, operations, organization and change, and information technology.[2] Booz Allen's government business primarily competes with SAIC, IBM, Accenture, and other systems integrators and defense contractors and serves global governments, agencies, NGOs, as well as nearly every part of the U.S. Government and military infrastructure. McKinsey & Company is a privately owned management consulting firm that focuses on solving issues of concern to senior management in large corporations and organizations. ... “BCG” redirects here. ... Bain & Company is a management consulting firm, headquartered in Boston, MA, that is recognized as one of the leading business institutions in the world. ... The acronym SAIC can stand for: Science Applications International Corporation School of the Art Institute of Chicago Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation Special Agent in Charge, acronym used by some U.S. Federal agencies (F.B.I., etc. ... For other uses, see IBM (disambiguation) and Big Blue. ... Accenture (NYSE: ACN, ISIN: BMG1150G1116) is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. ...

Booz Allen's notable intellectual contributions include the HBS-honored OrgDNA framework, the PERT management technique, and the product lifecycle theory. Since 1995, the firm also publishes strategy+business, a magazine for business executives. PERT network chart for a seven-month project with five milestones (10 through 50) and six activities (A through F). ... This article is about managing product design and production details. ...

History

After graduating from Northwestern University in Illinois in 1914, Edwin G. Booz developed the business theory that companies would be more successful if they could call on someone outside their own organizations for expert, impartial advice.[3] This theory developed into a new profession — management consulting — and the firm that would bear his name. Northwestern University (NU) is a selective private, nonsectarian, coeducational research university with campuses located in Evanston, Illinois and downtown Chicago, Illinois. ... Official language(s) English[1] Capital Springfield Largest city Chicago Largest metro area Chicago Metropolitan Area Area  Ranked 25th  - Total 57,918 sq mi (140,998 km²)  - Width 210 miles (340 km)  - Length 390 miles (629 km)  - % water 4. ... Edwin G. Booz founded the management consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton. ...

Notable current and former employees

Business

• Jonathan Black - Director, Corporate Affairs, University of Oxford
• Rohit Bhagat — Global Chief Operating Officer, Barclays Global Investors
• Chipper Boulas — Vice President of Corporate Strategy, eBay
• Jonathan S. Bush - founder of Athena Health
• Art Collins — Chairman and CEO, Medtronic, Inc.
• Tim Collins - founder of Ripplewood Holdings
• Edward Davies - Partner, Unisys Federal Systems
• Karen Fawcett - Director, Standard Chartered Bank Malaysia (2005-)
• Richard Gay - Senior Vice President, MTV Networks (2006-)
• Rhonda Germany — Vice President of Strategy & Business Development, Honeywell
• Gerry Horkan — Vice President of Corporate Strategy, Yahoo! Inc.
• Paul Idzik — Chief Operating Officer, Barclays PLC
• Steve Isakowitz — Deputy Associate Administrator, NASA
• Ray Lane - President of Oracle Corporation and General Partner at Kleiner Perkins
• Indra Nooyi — President and CEO, PepsiCo
• Edward O'Hare - Assistant Commissioner, U.S. General Services Administration
• Stan Scoggins - Vice President, Universal Studios
• Deven Sharma - President, Standard & Poor's

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Politics and public service

• Wendy Alexander - Member of the Scottish Parliament (1999-present)
• Keith R. Hall - Director, National Reconnaissance Office (1997-2001); formerly Executive Director for Intelligence Community Affairs
• Leonid Isakov - Federal Bureau of Investigation
• George E. Little - Media Relations, Central Intelligence Agency (2007-)
• John M. McConnell - Director of National Intelligence (2007-); formerly Director of the National Security Agency (1992-96); retired in 1996 as Vice Admiral, United States Navy
• Michael C. Mullen - Assistant Commissioner, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
• Patrick Gorman - Assistant Deputy Director National Intelligence, Strategy, Plans, and Policy, ODNI
• Andrew Turnbull - Member, House of Lords (upper Parliament), United Kingdom (2005-); Head of British Civil Service (2002-2005)
• R. James Woolsey, Jr. - Director of Central Intelligence Agency (1993-95)
• Thomas S. Moorman Jr. - Commander, Air Force Space Command (1990-92); Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (1994-1997)
• Dov Zakheim - U.S. government advisor

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Other

• Olivia Goldsmith - author
• Patricia A. Morrissey - Commissioner, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (presidential appointee)
• Bruce Pasternack - President and CEO of Special Olympics International, on the board of trustees of Cooper Union and serves as a board member for BEA Systems and SYMYX Technologies as well. Also, was the author of Results and The Centerless Corporation, books on strategy and business.

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Criticisms and Controversies

Booz Allen has been subject to some scrutiny related to its work with U.S. government defense and intelligence agencies, and to some its ex-government staff.

In 2006 at the request of the Article 29 Working Group, an advisory group to the European Commission (EC), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Privacy International (PI) investigated the U.S. government's SWIFT surveillance program and Booz Allen's role therein. The ACLU and PI filed a memo at the end of their investigation which called into question the ethics and legality of a government contractor (in this case Booz Allen) acting as auditors of a government program, when that contractor is heavily involved with those same agencies on other contracts. The basic statement was that a conflict of interest may exist. Beyond that, the implication was also made that Booz Allen may be complicit in a program (electronic surveillance of SWIFT) that may be deemed illegal by the EC. The source article on the ACLU's website and the memo created from this investigation can be found here [4]. Berlaymont, the Commissions seat The European Commission (formally the Commission of the European Communities) is the executive branch of the European Union. ... The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is the common name for an American organization consisting of two separate entities. ... Privacy International (PI) has been instrumental in establishing the modern international privacy movement. ... For other uses, see Swift (disambiguation). ...

Another controversy related to some of the senior staff of Booz Allen (past and present) and related to its performance on some specific U.S. intelligence agency contracts was brought to light on 12 January 2007 in an interview conducted by Democracy Now! with Tim Shorrock[5], an independent investigative journalist, and separately in an article he wrote for the Salon online magazine [6]. Through investigation of Booz Allen employees, Shorrock asserts that there is a sort of revolving-door conflict of interest between Booz Allen and the U.S. government, and between multiple other contractors and the U.S. government in general. Regarding Booz Allen, Shorrock referred to such people as John M. McConnell, R. James Woolsey, Jr., and James R. Clapper, all of whom have gone back and forth between government and industry (Booz Allen in particular), and who may present the appearance that certain government contractors receive undue or unlawful business from the government, and that certain government contractors may exert undue or unlawful influence on government. Democracy Now! logo. ... ... Vice Admiral John M. McConnell (United States Navy) was the director of the National Security Agency between May 1992 and January 1996. ... Robert James Woolsey Jr. ... James R. Clapper is a retired Lieutenant General in the United States Air Force who was chosen by Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates to be the second Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence - USD(I). ...

Shorrock further relates that Booz Allen was a sub-contractor with two programs at the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), called Trailblazer and Pioneer Groundbreaker, and then asserts two statements: that these programs reveal that many contractors are involved in various intelligence programs of which the media and parts of U.S. Government have now questioned the legality; and that the apparent (assertion made by Shorrock) unsuccessful nature of the programs reveals a lack of competence by both NSA and Booz Allen. The National Security Agency / Central Security Service (NSA/CSS) is a United States government agency responsible for both the collection and analysis of message communications, and for the security of government communications against similar agencies elsewhere. ... The NSA warrantless surveillance controversy concerns surveillance of persons within the United States incident to the collection of foreign intelligence by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) as part of the war on terror. ...

A June 28, 2007 Washington Post article [7] related how a U.S. Department of Homeland Security contract with Booz Allen increased from $2 million to more than $70 million through two no-bid contracts, one occurring after the DHS's legal office had advised DHS not to continue the contract until after a review. A Government Accounting Office (GAO) report on the contract characterized it as not well-planned and lacking any measure for assuring valuable work would completed. ... The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is a Cabinet department of the federal government of the United States that is concerned with protecting the American homeland and the safety of American citizens. ... For other uses, see Gao (disambiguation). ...

External links

• Booz Allen Hamilton official website
• strategy+business magazine

Footnotes