Aerospace & Defense
Booz Allen Hamilton
30-Second Executive Brief
Executive Assessment
Booz Allen Hamilton functions as a regional institution within Aerospace & Defense, backed by 55% sourcing coverage, with accelerating strategic relevance.
- Maintains 2 mapped relationships across the graph
- 55% sourcing coverage across sourced relationships
- Tracked as regional institution within the Aerospace & Defense category
Executive Snapshot
- Strategic Role
- Regional Institution
- Sourcing Coverage
- 55%
- Ecosystem Influence
- Moderate
- Strategic Momentum
- Accelerating
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Computed live from this entity's own relationships and evidence: how many relationships carry at least one linked citation, weighted with citation recency and source type — independent of Strategic Importance, and not a prediction. Not a hand-typed number; recalculated on every read.
Coverage
- Mapped Relationships
- 2
- Technology Domains
- 4
Strategic Implications
- Central node connecting multiple strategic ecosystems
- Directly influences technology and capital flows
- Material relevance to downstream dependency mapping
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Critical Dependencies
A major federal government consulting and technology firm positioning itself as a leading provider of AI and cybersecurity services to the US government, leveraging a roughly $37 billion contract backlog. Booz Allen became the first-ever a16z Technology Acceleration Partner for Governments in January 2026 to bring venture-backed AI, autonomy and electronic warfare startups into secure government environments, while separately securing a $1.58 billion intelligence-analysis contract to counter weapons of mass destruction, even as the Treasury Department canceled all its contracts with the firm in January 2026.
Leading Indicators
Hiring and patent filing trends — the underlying numbers Momentum is computed from. Insider filing activity is tracked separately under Sources below.
Additional Intelligence Signals
Patent citation lineage, earnings-call mentions, and federal contract disclosures — automatically collected, not yet visible anywhere else on the site.
Sources
Every claim traced to a primary source — evidence, recent activity, and insider filing behavior, all in one place.
Evidence
2 sources · 1 government/SEC filing
- ExecutiveBiz / Booz Allen investor relations — Booz Allen becomes a16z's first government AI acceleration partnercompany
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR) — Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp FY2026 Annual Report (Form 10-K), filed with the SECgovernment
Latest Activity
Insider Filing Activity
Counts filing frequency only — transaction direction/size wasn't parseable from the sampled filings · sourced from SEC EDGAR · as of Sep 7, 2026
Acquisition & Investment Fit
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Relationship Map
The relationships surrounding Booz Allen Hamilton — ownership, dependencies, regulation, technology and market context. Click any node to make it the new center, 2 levels deep.
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The Story So Far (last 6 months)
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Market Intelligence
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The Treasury cancellation and the $1.58B WMD contract in the same month show two very different faces of Booz Allen's federal exposure
32% confidenceIn January 2026, the Treasury Department canceled all its contracts with Booz Allen, while separately Booz Allen became a16z's first government AI acceleration partner and went on to secure a $1.58 billion intelligence-analysis contract in July 2026, all against a roughly $37 billion total backlog.
This is InsightNodes' own interpretive read: a full contract cancellation from one federal agency alongside continued large-scale wins elsewhere in government illustrates that Booz Allen's federal concentration risk is real but diversified across many individual agency relationships, so a single agency's decision does not threaten the overall backlog -- the more relevant forward signal is whether the a16z partnership successfully positions Booz Allen as the integration layer between venture-backed AI startups and government buyers, which would differentiate it from AI-native competitors like Palantir and Anduril rather than just competing head-on with them.
InsightNodes analysis of Booz Allen Hamilton FY2026 filings · Aug 14, 2026
Booz Allen Hamilton's Timeline
A sourced, dated history of Booz Allen Hamilton's key moments — founding to present.
Jan 1914 · Founded
Booz Allen Hamilton was founded, later becoming a leading federal government consulting and technology firm.
Jan 2026 · Becomes first a16z government AI acceleration partner; Treasury cancels contracts
Booz Allen Hamilton became Andreessen Horowitz's first-ever Technology Acceleration Partner for Governments, helping bring a16z portfolio companies' AI, autonomy and electronic warfare solutions into secure US government environments; separately, the US Treasury Department canceled all of its contracts with Booz Allen in January 2026.
Jul 2026 · Secures $1.58B WMD intelligence-analysis contract
Booz Allen Hamilton secured a $1.58 billion contract for intelligence analysis work countering weapons of mass destruction, part of a roughly $37 billion total contract backlog supporting the company's FY2026 revenue guidance of $12-12.5 billion.