A new report by Data Foundation and Booz Allen Hamilton reviewed seven federal blockchain projects and identified five factors program administrators and policymakers should consider before implementing blockchain initiatives.

Booz Allen Hamilton’s digital solutions group has attained a Maturity Level 5 appraisal for development and services under the CMMI Institute’s Capability Maturity Model Integration program.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 31, 2019 — Josh Sullivan, senior vice president of analytics at Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH), said government agencies should review their goals and capacity as well as engage personnel as they move to utilize artificial intelligence technology, GovCon Wire reported May 21. Sullivan wrote that …

Booz Allen Hamilton executives wrote in an article published Thursday on The New England Journal of Medicine that federal health care agencies should leverage data science tools and lessons from the intelligence community to optimize big data in order to improve care quality and reduce costs. Steve Escaravage, a senior vice president and head of Booz Allen’s digital, analytics and strategy practice, co-wrote the piece with Kevin Vigilante, an executive VP and a health business leader at the company; and Mike McConnell, a senior executive adviser at Booz Allen.

Ben Marglin, formerly a principal and director at Booz Allen Hamilton, has been appointed vice president of client solutions at Herndon, Va.-based information technology company Karsun Solutions. 

Dan Tucker, a vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton and head of the company’s Digital Platform capability team, said he has observed some federal agencies moving toward a serverless computing approach.

Alion Science and Technology and Booz Allen Hamilton have won spots on a potential $55.1M multiple-award contract from the U.S. Navy to develop and integrate naval warfighting technology platforms.

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency has exercised a $37.4M contract option for Booz Allen Hamilton to continue supporting the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program for an additional year.

Josh Elliot, principal and director of artificial intelligence at Booz Allen Hamilton, told Datanami in an interview published Thursday about the company’s involvement in deep learning programs within the federal government. “We have probably 60 or more [projects] right now, today, active in deep learning, machine learning, and artificial intelligence types of projects across the federal government right now,” Elliot told the publication at NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, Calif.

Three Booz Allen Hamilton executives said there are five myths about change management in government information technology modernization and the first notion that should be debunked is that change management should concentrate on end users. “Successful change management requires a whole cultural change that goes beyond end users to encompass the entire stakeholder community – from your delivery teams and business units to your end user community,” Booz Allen’s Juli Dixon, Ben Marglin and Andrew Mason wrote in an FCW article published Thursday.

Shannon Fitzgerald, a senior vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton and head of the company’s citizen services business, said top commercial brands are adopting digital platforms and services that could be used by federal agencies to improve customer experience. Fitzgerald wrote in a Nextgov article published Monday that agencies seeking to streamline user experience should advance the use of chatbots and redesign their websites to make it easier for citizens to find the information they need.
 

Booz Allen Hamilton has partnered with Purdue University to develop methods to help the U.S. government thwart cyber attacks and address other national security challenges.

Henry “Trey” Obering, an executive vice president and directed energy lead at Booz Allen Hamilton, has outlined several measures the Department of Defense should do to expedite the development of lasers and directed energy weapons to achieve military advantage against emerging threats. Obering wrote in a Defense One article published Wednesday that DoD should increase spending on directed energy weapons to up to $3B per year to improve laser power and beam quality as well as reduce the size, weight, power and cost requirements of such weapons.

Booz Allen Hamilton has received its second Consulting Partner of the Year Award from the NVIDIA Partner Network, which recognizes the company’s ongoing efforts to promote graphics processing unit across the artificial intelligence market.

Andy Linn, vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton, said the federal government needs a new platform that can automatically control devices and data access across agencies to improve security and build a mobile workforce.