article is disputed . relevant discussion may be found on the talk page . please do not remove this message until conditions to do so are met . september 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message booz allen hamilton type public traded as nyse bah industry management consulting government contractor founded 1914 ; 102 years ago 1914 founder edwin g. booz james l. allen carl l. hamilton headquarters tysons corner virginia u.s. 1 key people horacio d. rozanski president & chief executive officer 1 john michael mcconnell vice chairman services management and technology consulting revenue us 5.48 billion 2014 2 net income us 239.955 million fy 2012 2 number of employees 22 000 2014 website www.boozallen.com booz allen hamilton inc. bu z l n h m lt n 3 informally booz allen 4 is an american management consulting firm headquartered in tysons corner virginia in greater washington dc with 80 other offices throughout the united states . contents 1 history 1.1 early years 1.2 organization 1.3 new south wales australia 1.4 internal revenue service 1.5 swift 1.6 democracy now 1.7 homeland security 1.8 national institutes of health 1.9 2011 anonymous hack 1.10 prism media disclosures 2 political contributions 3 activities in foreign countries 4 employee demographics 5 significant personnel and associates past and present 5.1 business 5.2 government 5.3 other 6 see also 7 references 8 further reading 9 external links history edit early years edit after graduating from northwestern university in evanston 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 . 5 this theory developed into a new profession management consulting and the firm that would bear his name . according to the company in 1940 the firm was hired to help the united states secretary of the navy with world war ii preparations . since then booz allen has had a hand in several notable private and public engagements throughout its years such as advising on the breakup of ma bell and helping organize the national football league in the 1960s . 6 the firm has gone through several name changes in its 100 years of existence . these include edwin g. booz business engineering service ; edwin g. booz surveys ; edwin g. booz and fry surveys ; booz fry allen & hamilton ; booz allen & hamilton ; and finally booz allen hamilton . 7 organization edit in 1970 booz allen first went public with an initial offering of 500 000 shares at 24 per share . 8 9 however in 1976 public trading ceased in the largest ever leveraged buyout involving a consulting firm where booz allen s partners bought back the stock through one of the first management buyouts mbo and returned the firm to private ownership with a new governance structure . in 2007 managing director marc gerencser said that being privately held allowed the firm to consider long range investments that companies beholden to shareholders might not be able to make . 10 new south wales australia edit in 1988 the newly elected greiner state government commissioned a report into the state rail authority by booz allen hamilton . the resulting report recommended up to 8 000 job losses including the withdrawal of staff from 94 country railway stations withdrawing services on the nyngan bourke line queanbeyan cooma line and glen innes wallangarra line the discontinuation of several country passenger services the canberra xpt the silver city comet to broken hill and various diesel locomotive hauled services and the removal of sleeper trains from services to brisbane and melbourne . the report also recommended the removal of all country passenger services and small freight operations but the government did not consider this to be politically feasible . 11 the sra was divided into business units cityrail responsible for urban railways ; countrylink responsible for country passenger services ; freightrail responsible for freight services ; and rail estate responsible for rail property . internal revenue service edit in 1998 booz allen was chosen to help the internal revenue service irs modernize and shed its reputation for dismal customer service . the firm developed a strategy for the irs to reshuffle its 100 000 employees into units focused on particular taxpayer categories individuals charities businesses and so on . we made some very dramatic changes in the way the irs is organized said ceo ralph shrader . 12 reports from the government accountability office gao have pointed to mixed results including poor management of the irs s it portfolio and contractors . 13 swift edit in 2006 at the request of the article 29 working party an advisory group to the european commission 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 european commission . 14 15 democracy now edit this section needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . june 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message 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 january 12 2007 in an interview conducted by democracy now with tim shorrock 16 an independent investigative journalist and separately in an article he wrote for the salon online magazine . 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 . 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 . citation needed homeland security edit a june 28 2007 washington post article 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 accountability office gao report on the contract characterized it as not well planned and lacking any measure for assuring valuable work to be completed . according to the article a review of memos e mail and other contracting documents obtained by the washington post show that in a rush to meet congressional mandates to establish the information analysis and infrastructure protection offices agency officials routinely waived rules designed to protect taxpayer money . as the project progressed the department became so dependent on booz allen that it lost the flexibility for a time to seek out other contractors or hire federal employees who might do the job for less . elaine c. duke the department s chief procurement officer acknowledged the problems with the booz allen contract . but duke said those matters have been resolved . she defended a decision to issue a second no bid contract in 2005 as necessary to keep an essential intelligence operation running until a competition could be held . 17 national institutes of health edit in march 2011 the national institutes of health reported that booz allen hamilton spent at least 350m of public funds to develop the cabig cancer biomedical informatics grid not including supplemental grants and stimulus recovery funds . the nih report recommended an immediate moratorium on software contracts and a full audit of budget expenditures . the original goals of the program were to share cancer data between nih funded study centers . cabig quickly grew in scope beyond the funded objectives which the nih cited as a key cause of failure . funding levels for cabig were the largest ever spent for a us biomedical research network . as of may 2012 the cabig program was retired . 2011 anonymous hack edit on july 11 2011 18 19 the group anonymous as part of its operation antisec 20 hacked into booz allen servers extracting e mails and non salted passwords from the u.s. military . this information and a complete dump of the database were placed in a file shared on the pirate bay . 21 despite anonymous claims that 90 000 emails were released the associated press counted only 67 000 unique emails of which only 53 000 were military addresses . the remainder of the addresses came from educational institutions and defense contractors . 22 anonymous also said that it accessed four gigabytes of booz allen source code and deleted those four gigabytes . according to a statement by the group we infiltrated a server on their network that basically had no security measures in place . 23 24 anonymous accused booz allen of working with hb gary federal by creating a project for the manipulation of social media . anonymous also accused booz allen of participating in intelligence gathering and surveillance programs of the u.s. federal government and as stated by kukil bora of the international business times possible illegal activities . 20 booz allen confirmed the intrusion on 13 july but contradicted anonymous claims in saying that the attack never got past their own systems meaning that information from the military should be secure . 25 in august of that year during a conference call with analysts ralph shrader the chairman and ceo stated that the cost of remediation and other activities directly associated with the attack were not expected to have a material effect on our financial results . 26 prism media disclosures edit main articles prism surveillance program and edward snowden in june 2013 edward snowden at the time a booz allen employee 27 contracted to projects of the national security agency nsa publicly disclosed details of classified mass surveillance and data collection programs including prism . the alleged leaks are said to rank among the most significant breaches in the history of the nsa 28 and led to considerable concern worldwide . booz allen condemned snowden s leak of the existence of prism as shocking and a grave violation of the code of conduct and core values of our firm . 29 the company fired snowden in absentia shortly after and stated he had been an employee for less than three months at the time . market analysts considered the incident embarrassing but unlikely to cause enduring commercial damage . 30 booz allen stated that it would work with authorities and clients to investigate the leak . charles riley of cnn money said that booz allen was scrambling to distance itself from snowden . 31 according to reuters a source with detailed knowledge on the matter stated that booz allen s hiring screeners detected possible discrepancies in snowden s r sum regarding his education since some details did not check out precisely but decided to hire him anyway ;