We strive to be a destination for world-class technical talent and to empower our people to expand our mission-centric innovation capacity within Booz Allen by creating spaces and communities for them to research, incubate, and prototype emerging technologies and solutions.
BrightLabs, Booz Allen's technology research and development organization, is charged with exploring new ways to deliver highly differentiated technology solutions. Launched with the idea of making it easier for our people to integrate emerging technologies to address pervasive problems, BrightLabs develops and tests solutions across quantum, 5G, edge cloud, human performance, and spatial computing.
For example, at the 2023 Department of Defense Warrior Games Challenge, alongside wearables partner Oura Ring, Booz Allen provided cognitive and physical human performance insights before, during, and after the Challenge so athletes could prepare, train, and build performance patterns specific to their needs. These insights also built operational readiness and reduced injury risk throughout the event. This pilot was the first in a series of opportunities Booz Allen will pursue in 2023 to test and validate the value and usefulness of our human performance capability for the U.S. Department of Defense.
Booz Allen's Human Performance Training transforms how athletes, military members, and first responders prepare for and carry out their objectives. We combine traditional strength and conditioning, advanced sports and data science, and immersive simulations to optimize their physical and psychological readiness, wellbeing, and performance. With our integrated approach, elite athletes, military members, and first responders can improve decision making and effectiveness for their mission at hand—and develop physical, social, and mental fortitude beyond the field.
The Solutions Center, Booz Allen's software engineering center of excellence, plays a critical role as we dramatically accelerate the development lifecycle for our clients. As mission and enterprise needs become increasingly complex and dynamic, the Solutions Center ensures that our clients never unnecessarily have to start from scratch—and we support critical initiatives with complex delivery in less time than before. The Solutions Center offers a fully integrated foundation of proven, reusable engineering assets and components curated for Booz Allen development teams to accelerate mission impact, along with software engineering training and a developer portal.
From design patterns to software factory capabilities, this optimized approach to delivery enables clients to jump-start the development of critical products and services with a trusted technical foundation. Our approach maximizes efficiency and eliminates risk through technical rigor, and we continuously refine it so each client benefits from our thousands of successful software implementations.
As the largest single provider of AI services to the U.S. federal government, we understand that AI is not a single technology breakthrough but a complex integration of people, information, experience, processes, and technology that empowers organizations to focus on their missions and act with speed and at scale.
Booz Allen's investments in key accelerators like aiSSEMBLE™, our proprietary, lean manufacturing approach for AI; our extraordinary talent; our strategic partnerships with large technology providers such as C3.ai and Databricks; and our corporate venture investments in companies like Latent AI, Synthetaic, and Credo AI all serve as the critical building blocks for differentiated AI solutions that align with current and emerging mission needs.
The rise of generative AI has accelerated demand for AI solutions across sectors and industries. For the U.S. federal government, that includes applications for defense, intelligence, and civil government. Booz Allen enables government organizations to design, engineer, and operationalize purpose-built AI solutions for their critical missions.
The rapid democratization of this technology has demonstrated the immediate power and appetite for mainstream, generalized AI to perform a wide range of tasks. It has also led to welcome conversation and legislation on responsible AI. Learn more about our approach to responsible AI on our website.
Credo AI pioneered a responsible AI platform that enables context-driven, comprehensive, and continuous governance, oversight, and accountability of AI. Our partnership with Credo AI helps us deliver responsible AI capabilities that are practical, tangible, and useful for clients. A key component of this is leveraging Credo AI's Governance Platform and Policy Packs to deliver Booz Allen's industry-first Ethical Authority to Operate (E/ATO) assessment for AI systems. The E/ATO enables decision makers to systematically measure the ethical risk of their AI systems, providing a quantitative scorecard of a system's “Ethical Surface Area.” This scorecard identifies potential ethical risks and policy and regulatory compliance issues, thereby providing clients with avenues to de-risk and recalibrate their AI systems to better align with their organization's principles, policies, and procedures. This not only ensures their AI ecosystem is measurably responsible, but also enhances the overall performance of AI systems used for critical missions and applications.
