Changing the World - Booz Allen Hamilton

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