Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton, founded in Chicago in 1914, counts with more than 24,000 employees, the leading technology consulting for the U.S. government. A majority stake in Booz Allen Hamilton is the Carlyle Group.
The company is ( set in 1929 ) after the founder, Edwin Booz, the third employee Jim Allen and the fourth employee Carl Hamilton (1935 set ) named, and arose from the cleavage with Booz & Company. Booz & Company retained the strategy consulting activities.
The company is next to Halliburton, KBR and Academi a leading company in the field of military services to the U.S. Department of Defense.
History
1914 Edwin G. Booz received his degree at Northwestern University and founded in the same year a private company for the preparation of studies and statistical analyzes for the economy. A year later he started a joint venture under the name " Business Research & Development Company ". The company examined the competition in various industries. After four years, Edwin Booz founded in 1919 the " Business Engineering Service".
The first customer was the State Bank & Trust in Evanston, Illinois, which granted him a loan. The company was founded in 1924 renamed " Edwin Booz Surveys " and George Fry 1925 set as the second employee. Jim Allen was added as the third employee in 1929, six years later, Carl Hamilton joined the company. 1936, the company was reorganized as a partnership and renamed " Booz, Fry, Allen & Hamilton ."
Until the 1980s we lived in Booz Allen Hamilton in the field of executive search ( recruitment ) operates. Sidney Boyden, who founded his own company later, here was one of the lead partners.
Before the attacks of 11 September 2001, the company reported sales of around 330 million U.S. dollars from orders of the Defense Ministry. Ten years later, there were $ 3.3 billion.
The company obtains 99 percent of its orders from the U.S. government. It thus redeemed 5.8 billion U.S. dollars per year, of which 1.3 billion U.S. dollars of secret services.
Proximity to the U.S. intelligence
In the company several senior members working from the U.S. intelligence agencies, including the former general manager ( Director of National Intelligence ), John Michael McConnell and former CIA director James Woolsey. While the controversial transfer of bank data of SWIFT to the U.S. and European intelligence services, the company has been involved as a supervisory body. According to the author Tim Shorrock over 1,000 former intelligence officers working at Booz Allen.
Of the more than 24,000 employees have three-quarters of a security clearance (security clearance ). Nearly half have a release for the level of secrecy Top Secret.
Discovery of the secret surveillance program PRISM by Edward Snowden
In June 2013, the extensive Internet communication monitoring programs PRISM and Boundless informant for the U.S. Secret Service NSA became known through the publication of secret documents and an interview of Edward Snowden with the Guardian newspaper. Snowden, of an external employee of Booz Allen Hamilton in an NSA office worked from 2009 to 2013 in Hawaii, had as part of his work have access to the documents, copied them and gave them to the Guardian on.
Hacker attack on Booz Allen Hamilton
On 11 July 2011, the loose hacker group Anonymous released 90,000 email addresses and passwords of members of the U.S. armed forces and employees of defense companies, which are derived from a Booz Allen Hamilton server on The Pirate Bay. In the text accompanying various accusations against Booz Allen Hamilton were collected.