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Modeling and Simulation Experts

Mark Gerencser Mark Herman Bill Thoet

Booz Allen Hamilton’s modeling and simulation service offering allows leaders to solve the most difficult problems, test courses of action, and learn the probable outcomes of strategies. As a recognized leader in decision analytics, we help clients address their toughest problems with analytical approaches, customized tools, data sets, and simulation models that are specifically crafted to create, analyze, and test strategies and decisions. This effort enables our clients to make critical tactical and strategic decisions, supported by auditable quantitative and qualitative techniques, integrating science and technology with human perspectives. The offering is most appropriate when problems are complex, involving numerous stakeholders, interrelated systems, or alternative courses of actions.

Booz Allen helps our clients use modeling and simulation to explore and understand complex strategic and design decisions before investing significant resources in a transformation. Using a widerange of analytical tools and techniques from the commercial gaming industry and the defense modeling community, we are able to assess first and second-order effects on people, process, and technology. These approaches have proven extremely valuable to our US Government clients in public sector markets.

We have been the foremost provider of military wargames to the Department of Defense for more than two decades. In our civil government markets, we have supported the development of strategies to not only combat the HIV epidemics in Asia and Africa but also counter pandemic attacks and other terrorist incidents in North America. For our military clients, we have supported the development and testing of investment strategies, plans for response to military threats, and plans to counter international narcotics operations.

Booz Allen offers world-class expertise in the following areas:

• Modeling and Simulation: We help clients understand the interaction and outcome of reasonably well-defined variables and processes (e.g., system dynamics; economic, social, or cultural interactions). We also test and visualize emerging concepts and capabilities in various traditional and irregular scenarios, and we support planning and assessment efforts in direct support of warfighters from the tactical to the strategic levels.
  
  
• Wargaming: We offer clients an opportunity to test strategies in a realistic context of competitors, customers, stakeholders, regulators, and other external interests. Wargaming is most appropriate when limited data is available regarding stakeholder positions and every decision may create a new dynamic of choice by other decision-makers. Wargames may help military, civilian, intelligence, and business leaders avoid surprises on the battlefield or in the market, identify common ground among diverse stakeholders, and build private-public partnerships. In addition, wargaming helps in determining requirements; formulating problems definition; and providing a basis for further refined decision support analyses.
  
  
• Capabilities-Based Analysis: We provide technical, programmatic, and performance analysis of integrated C4ISR systems and architectures. Thus, we can help clients identify capability needs; identify gaps or overlaps in systems; evaluate system alternatives against stakeholder criteria; evaluate current and planned investments against needed capabilities; and develop plans and roadmaps for goal attainment.
  
  
• Threat and Vulnerability Analysis: We generate quantitative and qualitative insights to help organizations better understand existing and emerging threats, vulnerabilities, and opportunities; enable clients to examine their operating environment (physical and non-physical networks) to identify critical nodes, key relationships, redundancies, and vulnerabilities; examine alternative futures to better understand impacts that decisions made today have in the context of the future; and employ data mining and computational social sciences to support strategic business decisions.

Additional Information

• Booz Allen Is Selected Among the Prime Contractors for DHS EAGLE
• Disaster Relief—Improving Response and Long-Term Recovery
• Modeling the Chaos of Battle
• Patient Safety Mini-Wargame Calls for Greater Collaboration Across Health Disciplines
• Playing Games and Taking Risks to Improve IT Strategy
• Scenario-Based Exercises Help Prepare Eastern North Carolina for Dramatic Regional Growth
• The Global AIDS Crisis—A Strategic Simulation to Explore Public/Private Partnerships in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS
• The Greater Gulf of Guinea Simulation
• Threats to Port Security Call for Integrated Public/Private Action
• US Army Awards Booz Allen $32.7 Million for Future Warfare Study and Wargaming Support
• Wargaming Expert Explores the Roots of Organized Warfare
• Wargaming: Exploring the Future of Defense

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