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...fill Negroponte's job, President Bush today named former Navy Adm. Mike McConnell, now a senior executive at the management consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, whose previous billets included heading the National Security Agency. McConnell had declined to step in as Negroponte's deputy when Michael Hayden left that job eight months ago to become the new CIA Director. McConnell is an affable, respected national security hand originally from South Carolina. It remains to be seen whether he'll fare better than Negroponte. It also remains to be seen whether McConnell's work for Booz Allen Hamilton, where...
...office is currently investigating the extent of intelligence contracting, and some lawmakers are concerned about the cost and effectiveness of the government's extensive outsourcing of intelligence functions. Booz Allen enjoyed nearly $2 billion in federal contracts in fiscal year 2005, according to a recent listing in Government Executive magazine. About $1.2 billion of that money came from the Pentagon, which disburses about 80% of the intelligence budget, the magazine says. A year ago, Booz Allen paid nearly $3.4 million to settle a government false claims suit, according to a statement issued by the U.S. attorney's office...
...with the intelligence job, and eager to return to his career as a diplomat. A likely replacement for Negroponte is retired Adm. Mike McConnell, who served as director of the National Security Agency (NSA) from 1992 to 1996 and is currently a senior vice president at the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton...
...Europeans have "triple-play" services - voice, video and data - in their home, but 35% say they are interested, according to technology consultants Forrester Research. That's a huge potential market. "There's a race now among all the operators to arrive first," says Luigi Pugliese, a telecom consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton in Milan. "The world of triple play will soon close. It's growing rapidly and the first to get a customer will not lose him." Most European communications companies are not equipped to offer all three services easily - hence a wave of strategic mergers. Late last year...
...ideas about how to do it. "We live in a world in which a terrorist attack in the Middle East could push oil well over $100 a barrel and send the world economy into a tailspin," says former CIA Director James Woolsey, now a vice president at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton. One organization he belongs to, the Energy Future Coalition, shot off a letter last month to Pete Domenici, chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, calling for a federal investment in alternative fuels and advanced automobile technology. But it's another arm of this movement...