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Booz Allen Aberdeen: Come for the People. Stay for the Possibilities.

Systems Engineer Vijay Jadav is honest about moving from New Jersey to Aberdeen, Maryland: While the town wasn’t on his radar, luckily Booz Allen was.

Five years later, Vijay is an ambassador for the city—and continually takes advantage of the career potential Booz Allen offers.

Considering a move? Keep reading to see why Booz Allen Aberdeen should be on your radar.

Question: Why did you take the job in Aberdeen?

Answer: The people. A friend and I came down together. I still work with her, as well as with the friend who recruited me. They were people I knew and trusted, so I came to work with them.

Q: Now that you’ve lived here five years, what do you think?

A: I love the trees and all the open green space. There are parks and trails with great hiking and a waterfall nearby. DC, Baltimore, and Philadelphia aren’t far, and it’s a great area to raise kids—plus it has really good crab cakes.

Q: How has working at Booz Allen in Aberdeen impacted your career?

A: I’ve become a jack-of-all-trades: I started in testing, then moved to security design, information assurance, system design, and software architecture. You get to prototype a lot here. Some ideas can help the military and your career at the same time.

Q: Can you tell us about a specific project you’ve worked on?

A: I helped develop a great application that solves a small problem but has a massive impact. Basically, if soldiers can’t connect to the main network, the app lets them use their satellite connection to get the information they need about the battlespace. Soldiers win when they know the area—where their guys are and where the enemy is. That’s more powerful than any weapon we could make.

Q: What would you tell someone who’s thinking about working here?

A: I would tell them that every day, I get to create things no one else has. That our work saves lives. And that if you have drive and creativity, you can pursue your vision here. 

What vision will you pursue in Aberdeen? Join us, and find out.

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Booz Allen Aberdeen: Mission Critical

Ask most people to describe a day in the life at their company and you’ll hear about cubicles, water cooler talk, maybe Taco Tuesday. But for Dake Amenyah, an electrical engineer at our Booz Allen Aberdeen office, a workday looks very different.

On the job and on the road

Dake and his team design communications equipment for the U.S. Army. Whereas many companies don’t offer the chance to build prototypes because of the cost, Booz Allen relies on the practice as a way to develop not just any solution, but the right solution.

Once he builds the prototype, Dake and the team test it in a field near the lab. But when lives are at stake, that’s not enough: The team needs to witness firsthand how soldiers use their technology. So they head to Texas.

In Texas, under the hot desert sun, Dake watches Army soldiers perform field exercises using his prototypes, noting improvements he’ll make back at the lab.

“Watching actual soldiers use my equipment is very different from a bunch of engineers running around a field with it,” Dake says. “Soldiers use the gear differently: they’re focused on their mission, not the equipment. We have to make the equipment rugged enough to withstand how soldiers need to use it.”

Solving tough problems

Once they’re back at their Aberdeen lab, Dake’s team gets to work modifying their prototypes, while other teams focus on different communications challenges faced by the Army. The rapid prototyping environment gives them the opportunity to test ideas with the men and women who will ultimately be using them.

Together, they’re solving some of the Army’s toughest problems.

There are resources and technology, tools and support waiting for you in Aberdeen. Are you ready? Join us.

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Booz Allen Lexington Park: Make the Choice to Make a Difference

At Booz Allen Lexington Park, we aren’t working to live: we’re working to help others live. The safety of our country depends on what this team accomplishes every day.

Helping develop the future

Our team (cybersecurity experts, systems engineers, network systems administrators, policy analysts, data scientists, consultants, and other professionals) often works on client site—and they aren’t ordinary clients.

The Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), for example, is headquartered near us at Patuxent River Naval Air Station. NAVAIR is responsible for bringing our sailors and marines home safely, and we’re responsible for helping them do it.

“We’re on the forefront of what’s happening, helping develop the future for our civilian, Department of Defense, and government clients,” says Christopher Hernandez, lead procurement manager supporting the government.

Projects that protect

One of our main projects at NAVAIR is the Presidential Helicopter Program, which provides transport for the President and Vice President of the United States. We’re helping NAVAIR redesign the helicopters’ communication systems to allow secure, long-range phone connections for coordinating landings, holding meetings, and discussing other vital issues.

We’re also collaborating with clients to use machine intelligence and deep learning to create advanced camera software that actually “learns” from data. We use this new software to test unmanned vehicles and practice catapult landings and launching. We also develop technology that provides life-or-death information to our troops in real time.

“This is next-gen stuff. We’re building things the warfighters truly use,” says Senior Recruiter Scott Mewhinney. “And we’re doing it right here in Lexington Park.”

The choice is up to you. When it comes to your career, you can get a job—or you can join a mission.

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A day that will live in infamy, December 7, 1941.

Now, 75 years later, we honor the more than 3,500 men and women who were injured or died at Pearl Harbor following a surprise attack, and those who continue to fight today for our country's freedoms.

World War II ushered in our longest client relationship with the United States Navy, and was the catalyst for our public-sector consulting business that is now integral to our firm's mission. This relationship expanded our expertise in managing complexity, communications, and technology. It also opened the door to classified work in military intelligence, cryptography, aerospace technology, and other burgeoning fields.

 Booz Allen Gets Into WWII

It started in 1940, when Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox contacted Edwin Booz for help restructuring the Navy. Knox envisioned a two-ocean Navy, but the U.S. was under-equipped to deliver, with a force of only 190,000 and 385 combat-ready ships. Its headquarters were in a temporary building left over from World War I, and its telephone, internal mail, and intelligence systems were dated.

Founding partners Edwin and Jim Allen personally took on the assignment. They suggested ways to revamp the Navy's systems and services, cutting red tape, replacing old chains of command with new management units under each Navy bureau, and creating a collaborative structure.

 In an interview with FORTUNE magazine in 1944, Frank Knox famously said that in hiring Booz Allen, he "had never spent the government's money more effectively."

Our work with the Navy led to other engagements with the Department of Defense. In early 1941 the U.S. Army asked Booz Allen to help rethink its structure. Consultants delivered their report on December 6, 1941. The next day the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Our ideas moved rapidly from recommendations to realities.

Continuing the Mission      

 Today, we're engaged in supporting the Navy in a variety of projects: readiness and efficiency, installing communications equipment, enhancing cybersecurity, helping build force resilience with suicide prevention and health education programs such as the award-winning "Keep What You've Earned​" campaign, and much more.

 "I'm proud of Booz Allen's relationship with the Navy, and our commitment to helping them solve their toughest problems is as strong today as it was 75 years ago," SVP Jennifer Swindell, who leads the Navy and Marine Corps operational business, concludes. "We're continuing to help them transform and increase their readiness across all dimensions: personnel readiness, fleet readiness, systems readiness, cyber readiness. That's our passion and it's where we are helping them the most. Helping them to be ready to fight the next battle whatever that might be."

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#RunWithTheMarines

Congratulations to each and every runner, military supporter, family, and friend who came out to race and cheer the tens of thousands of finishers of the Marine Corps Marathon last Sunday.

 Your dedication inspired us. Over the last few months you invested your time, your hearts, your weekends and evenings in pursuit of your goal. The aches and pains, the morning runs, the muscle rubs, and the determination to keep pushing is what separates leaders from the pack.

 That’s the character we look for. We aspire to your commitment. And we invest in people like you.

 As the first runner crossed the finish line at 10:08am and afternoon temperatures soared to 80 degrees, our recruiters waited at the finish line to celebrate with the runners and help people take the next step in their careers.

 Only one percent of the U.S. population holds a security clearance according to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s most recent data. Many our clients have missions that require cleared professionals. Those people share the same commitment and dedication, courage, heart, and persistence as last Sunday’s runners.

 Have what it takes? Join us by visiting Boozallen.com/apply 

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Candid pic at the @boozallen recruiting booth. So many impressive young people are here today. They keep me encouraged for the future. #STEMisaGirlThing #WomenofColorinSTEM #BoozAllen (at Women of Color in Technology STEM Conference)

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FED team winners. 🏆 #STEMisaGirlThing #WomenofColorinSTEM #AllStarAwardWinners #BoozAllen (at Cobo Center, Detroit)

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Booz Allen Women of Color Rising Stars and All Star award winners. 💫#STEMisaGirlThing #WomenofColorinSTEM #AllStarAwardRecipient #BoozAllen #GodIsGood (at Cobo Center, Detroit)