You Will Anyway: Booz Allen Hamilton

Thursday, July 11, 2013

Booz Allen Hamilton - NSA Contractor

The US Air Force has concluded that Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH), the contractor that employed Edward Snowden prior to his becoming a whistleblower, is not responsible for the disclosure of the classified information.

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The Air Force is so far the first government agency to clear BAH in the Snowden case.

RT

Apparently each agency gets to decide on its own whether or not to do business with a contractor???

But wait. BAH has been in trouble before, even recently, for secrets violations.

The Air Force suspended indefinitely Booz Allen Hamilton's San Antonio office from future federal contracts and has proposed its debarment.

A former Air Force officer working in a Booz Allen San Antonio office allegedly shared with company colleagues protected proprietary information obtained from the Air Force, including pricing data and labor rates, on an expiring contract held by the company NIC.

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Retired Lt. Col. Joselito Meneses, who was hired last April as a senior associate at Booz Allen Hamilton's San Antonio office, allegedly shared non-public information with his co-workers about the contract, the memo states.

Federal Times

April 13, 2012: Booz Allen Hamilton’s San Antonio office has been removed from the U.S. government’s Excluded Parties List System (EPLS) and has regained full eligibility to compete for new contracts with the U.S. federal government. This results from Booz Allen having entered into an Administrative Agreement with the U.S. Air Force.

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Booz Allen’s discussions with the U.S. Air Force arose from the actions of a former government employee hired by the firm who inappropriately retained and shared sensitive information about a pending government procurement that occurred in the firm’s San Antonio office in 2011.

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Booz Allen has agreed, among other things, to file quarterly reports with the U.S. Air Force regarding the firm’s implementation of the remedial measures and also adhere to a number of provisions relating to enhanced disclosure of employee misconduct or violations of the firm’s ethics and compliance program.

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I wonder if the Air Force has a "Three Strikes" clause.

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