Booz Allen Hamilton
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | US0995021062 |
| founding | 1914 |
| Seat | Tysons Corner , United States |
| management | Ralph Shrader |
| Number of employees | more than 24,000 (2013) |
| sales | about $ 5.8 billion |
| Branch | Technology consulting |
| Website | www.boozallen.com |
Booz Allen Hamilton , founded in Chicago in 1914 , is one of the leading technology consultancies for the US government with more than 24,000 employees. The majority owner of Booz Allen Hamilton is the Carlyle Group .
The company is named after the founder Edwin Booz , the third employee Jim Allen (hired in 1929) and the fourth employee Carl Hamilton (hired in 1935), and was created in its current form in 2008 from the split with Booz & Company, now Strategy & . Booz & Company / Strategy & retained the strategy consulting activities .
The company is a leader in military services for the US Department of Defense alongside Halliburton , KBR and Academi .
Company history
In 1914, Edwin G. Booz graduated from Northwestern University and in the same year founded his own company to produce studies and statistical analyzes for the economy. A year later, he started a joint venture called the Business Research & Development Company . The company studied the competitive conditions in various industries. After four years, Edwin Booz founded Business Engineering Service in 1919 .
The first customer was State Bank & Trust in Evanston , Illinois , which also granted him a loan. The company was renamed Edwin Booz Surveys in 1924 and George Fry was hired as a second employee in 1925. Jim Allen joined the company as a third employee in 1929, and Carl Hamilton joined the company six years later. In 1936 the company was reorganized as a partnership and renamed Booz, Fry, Allen & Hamilton .
Booz Allen Hamilton was also active in the field of executive search ( personnel consulting ) until the 1980s . Sidney Boyden , who later founded his own company, was one of the leading partners here.
Prior to the September 11, 2001 attacks, the company received approximately $ 330 million from Defense Department contracts. Ten years later it was $ 3.3 billion.
The company sources 99 percent of its orders from the US government. It generates $ 5.8 billion a year, of which $ 1.3 billion comes from intelligence agencies.
Proximity to the American secret service
Various high-ranking members from the American intelligence services work for the company, including the former Director of National Intelligence , John Michael McConnell and the former CIA head James Woolsey . James R. Clapper , who served as National Intelligence Director from 2010 to 2017 , was a board member of Booz Allen Hamilton. During the controversial transfer of SWIFT bank data to the American and European secret services, the company was involved as a controlling body. According to author Tim Shorrock, Booz Allen has over 1,000 former intelligence officials.
Three quarters of the more than 24,000 employees have a security clearance. Almost half of them have a top secret rating .
Edward Snowden discovers the secret surveillance program PRISM
In June 2013, through the publication of classified documents and an interview by Edward Snowden with The Guardian newspaper, the extensive Internet communications monitoring programs PRISM and Boundless Informant of the American secret service NSA became known. Snowden, who worked for Booz Allen Hamilton in an NSA office in Hawaii from 2009 to 2013 , had access to the documents as part of his work, copied them and passed them on to the Guardian.
Hacker attack on Booz Allen Hamilton
On July 11, 2011, the loose hacking group Anonymous published 90,000 email addresses and passwords of members of the US Armed Forces and employees of defense companies , which are said to have come from a Booz Allen Hamilton server, on The Pirate Bay . Various allegations were made against Booz Allen Hamilton in the accompanying text.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c d e Fabian Gartmann, Thomas Jahn: The secret service providers . In: Handelsblatt . No. 120 , June 26, 2013, ISSN 0017-7296 , p. 24 .
- ↑ John "Mike" McConnell: boozallen.com ( Memento from March 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ James Woolsey: boozallen.com ( Memento from August 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Matthias Rüb: A troop of more than 850,000 men. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . June 11, 2013, accessed June 11, 2013 .
- ^ Nytimes.com September 26, 2006
- ^ Mike McConnell, Booz Allen and the Privatization of Intelligence . Democracy Now
- ↑ Marc Pitzke: Prism Whistleblower: "I don't expect to see my home again". spiegel.de, June 10, 2013, accessed June 10, 2013 .
- ↑ Military Meltdown Monday: Mangling Booz Allen Hamilton ( en ) In: The Pirate Bay . Anonymous. July 11, 2011. Archived from the original on June 27, 2013. Retrieved July 6, 2013.