Changing the World - Booz Allen Hamilton
Changing the World - Booz Allen Hamilton
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san antonio<br />
spotlight<br />
an expanding presence<br />
to enhance client service<br />
50<br />
About 15 years<br />
ago, an engagement<br />
with <strong>the</strong><br />
United States<br />
Air Force Center<br />
for Engineering<br />
and <strong>the</strong> Environment<br />
drew <strong>Booz</strong><br />
<strong>Allen</strong> <strong>Hamilton</strong><br />
to San Antonio,<br />
Texas. Since that beginning, <strong>the</strong> office<br />
has grown steadily to more than 800 people<br />
who support a wide range of clients.<br />
A broad client base<br />
“We serve a broad and diverse set of<br />
clients,” says Senior Vice President<br />
Paul Doolittle. “Most of our business<br />
involves support to Department of<br />
Defense clients, in areas including<br />
environment and infrastructure,<br />
military healthcare, cyber, intelligence,<br />
and program management and<br />
acquisition.”<br />
In addition, <strong>the</strong> San Antonio team—<br />
along with o<strong>the</strong>r <strong>Booz</strong> <strong>Allen</strong> offices—<br />
is helping clients plan and implement<br />
transitions associated with <strong>the</strong> 2005<br />
Base Realignment and Closure Act.<br />
Staff from <strong>the</strong> San Antonio office volunteer<br />
at Fisher House, which provides lodging to <strong>the</strong><br />
families of hospitalized service members<br />
When <strong>the</strong> realignment is completed,<br />
125,000 servicepeople will have been<br />
transferred among more than 800<br />
military locations throughout <strong>the</strong> US<br />
and its territories.<br />
Supporting <strong>the</strong> community<br />
The San Antonio office strongly champions<br />
local charities such as <strong>the</strong> South<br />
Texas chapter of <strong>the</strong> Leukemia & Lymphoma<br />
Society and <strong>the</strong> Boy Scouts of<br />
America. In 2010, San Antonio will host<br />
B’nai B’rith International’s Diverse<br />
Minds Youth Writing Challenge, an annual<br />
contest sponsored in part by <strong>Booz</strong><br />
<strong>Allen</strong> in which teens write tolerance<strong>the</strong>med<br />
books for children.<br />
Flush with work and deeply involved<br />
in <strong>the</strong>ir community, <strong>Booz</strong> <strong>Allen</strong> San<br />
Antonio staff are a satisfied group. Indeed,<br />
<strong>the</strong> San Antonio Business Journal<br />
named <strong>the</strong> San Antonio office to its<br />
“Best Places to Work” list for <strong>the</strong> fourth<br />
consecutive year in 2009.<br />
The activities in <strong>the</strong> office certainly<br />
merit such an accolade, but it doesn’t<br />
hurt that San Antonio itself has so<br />
much to offer, says Doolittle. There’s<br />
<strong>the</strong> River Walk and <strong>the</strong> Alamo and Sea<br />
<strong>World</strong> and Fiesta. And, adds Doolittle,<br />
“you can’t beat 300 days of sun a year.”<br />
71% of <strong>Booz</strong> <strong>Allen</strong> employees volunteered with<br />
a nonprofit organization in <strong>the</strong> past year