Federal Contracting
Federal Contracting Activities and Contract Types
Sandra Greene
BUS 315
Dr. Lena Maslennikova
10 December, 2012
Federal Contracting Activities and Contract Types
This paper will discuss Booz Allen Hamilton. It will briefly discuss its history and then go into who they are today. Finally, it will cover a major contract that they have recently acquired along with a few particulars of that contract.
Edwin G. Booz started his first engineering company after a stint in the navy in 1914. After many changes the firm officially became a management consulting firm called Booz Allen Hamilton in 1942. Today it is one of the most prestigious technology consulting firms in the world with eighty offices throughout the United States (Booz Allen Hamilton).
Booz Allen Hamilton is provides management and technology consulting services to the United States government and commercial services. Booz Allen’s services include strategic planning, human capital and learning, communications, operational improvement, information technology work, systems engineering, organizational change efforts, modeling and simulation, program management, assurance and resilience, and economic business analysis (Booz Allen Hamilton).
As of August 2008, what was formerly Booz Allen Hamilton’s parent company divided in two. The Booz Allen Hamilton name was retained by the half focusing on U.S. governmental matters, with Booz & Company taking sole control of its commercial strategy and international portfolio. Booz Allen Hamilton is majority owned by a private equity firm called The Carlyle Group, while Booz & Company is owned and operated as a partnership. On November 17, 2010, Booz Allen 's shares of common stock began trading at the New York Stock Exchange (Booz Allen Hamilton).
In 2012 Booz Allen, for short, acquired a major government contract on 22 October, 2012 to provide IT and Telecom-Other IT and
Sandra Greene
BUS 315
Dr. Lena Maslennikova
10 December, 2012
Federal Contracting Activities and Contract Types
This paper will discuss Booz Allen Hamilton. It will briefly discuss its history and then go into who they are today. Finally, it will cover a major contract that they have recently acquired along with a few particulars of that contract.
Edwin G. Booz started his first engineering company after a stint in the navy in 1914. After many changes the firm officially became a management consulting firm called Booz Allen Hamilton in 1942. Today it is one of the most prestigious technology consulting firms in the world with eighty offices throughout the United States (Booz Allen Hamilton).
Booz Allen Hamilton is provides management and technology consulting services to the United States government and commercial services. Booz Allen’s services include strategic planning, human capital and learning, communications, operational improvement, information technology work, systems engineering, organizational change efforts, modeling and simulation, program management, assurance and resilience, and economic business analysis (Booz Allen Hamilton).
As of August 2008, what was formerly Booz Allen Hamilton’s parent company divided in two. The Booz Allen Hamilton name was retained by the half focusing on U.S. governmental matters, with Booz & Company taking sole control of its commercial strategy and international portfolio. Booz Allen Hamilton is majority owned by a private equity firm called The Carlyle Group, while Booz & Company is owned and operated as a partnership. On November 17, 2010, Booz Allen 's shares of common stock began trading at the New York Stock Exchange (Booz Allen Hamilton).
In 2012 Booz Allen, for short, acquired a major government contract on 22 October, 2012 to provide IT and Telecom-Other IT and
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