Employee Spotlight: Meet Jamechia D. Hoyle

Embracing Change: Overcoming Resistance in an Agile Environment

Understanding the concept of change resistance in an Agile environment can help leaders overcome resistance and develop effective strategies to lead through change. 

LMI to Support USTRANSCOM in Campaign Planning for Global Deployment, Distribution, and Capability Development

The United States Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) Strategic Plans, Policy, and Logistics Directorate has selected LMI for strategic campaign planning and support for the Department of Defense Functional Campaign Plan for Global Deployment and Distribution and USTRANSCOM’s Combatant Command Campaign Plan.

Better Decisions with Analytical Hierarchy Process

When decisions have a broad impact, decision makers often require input from program stakeholders, subject matter experts (SME), and end users. LMI helps agencies make gathering and analyzing that input repeatable and defendable. 

LMI to Support Research & Development for DLA Clothing and Textiles

The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Military Unique Sustainment Technology (MUST) Program selected LMI to support research and development (R&D) for the DLA Troop Support Clothing and Textiles (C&T) supply chain.

The LMI Way of Policy: Five Factors to Ensure Effective Policy Lifecycle Management

Through a five-factor approach, LMI delivers impactful policies that are co-created and implemented as drivers of change, innovation, and agility through all levels of an organization.

LMI Selected to Continue Supporting the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy 

LMI has been awarded a four-year, $7 million contract to continue providing event planning and related services support for the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (OUSD(P)).

Transforming Your Organization with Business Process Reengineering

Business Process Reengineering (BPR) is a potent tool for transforming governmental operations, addressing challenges, and unlocking numerous benefits. By leveraging LMI's expertise, agencies can enhance operational efficiency, improve customer satisfaction, and align more effectively with strategic objectives in the face of rapidly evolving technology and customer demands.

Rachel Linares

Dr. Rachel Linares, a process improvement consultant, has over two decades of a successful career spanning multiple industries, including government, higher education, and manufacturing. She has significant consulting experience in a broad range of functions.

Ashley Jung

Ashley Jung is the vice president of human capital solutions at LMI, where she directs digital transformation strategies for federal customers. With a diverse background encompassing military service, consulting, and entrepreneurship, she began her notable career at the United States Military Academy, earning significant accolades in academics and athletics.

Diversity in the U.S. Military: Stronger Together

Today's military is more isolated from the average American, yet more diverse than ever before. As we recognize February's African American History Month, read one military veteran's personal stories about diversity in the military.

Helping the Best Become Even Better

While LMI strives to help each client go further, pushing boundaries is literally the mission of one longtime client, NASA. For nearly 20 years, LMI has supported NASA’s human capital (HC) function, delivering program management, change management, and ad hoc services to meet its needs. 

Putting the Innovation in Policy: the LMI Way

LMI has proof points for delivering timely, perceptive solutions to our customers. In our upcoming blog series, policy practice area team members will share their perspectives on policy and innovation, the outlook for the policy challenges of government, and LMI’s solutions to these challenges.

Flexible Standards Strengthen CBRN Survivability

LMI fellow emeritus Ron Fizer proposes an approach to improve support to CBRN hazard environments. 

LMI to Continue Strategy, Strategic Engagement, Concepts, and Wargames Support for USTRANSCOM

The United States Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) Strategic Plans, Policy, and Logistics Directorate has selected LMI to continue supporting the Strategy, Strategic Engagement, Concepts, and Wargames (SSECW) program.

Three Steps Toward Creating Government Experiences That Put Customers First

The increasing disruptions from modern technological advancements, social injustice, and geopolitical tide changes demand that government organizations double-down on customers’ experience to restore the prestige of our democratic institutions.

What I’ve Learned About Accessibility

This year’s theme for National Disability Employment Awareness Month is “Increasing Access and Opportunity.” Natalie Lieberman discusses our approach to remediation and accessibility as part of our work for federal customers.

Redefining Business Optimization in the COVID Era

In a world beset by pandemic and climate risks, resiliency has become a defining virtue of business operations.   

Bettina Kolleda

Bettina has over 15 years of experience supporting business and digital transformation programs across various markets, including defense and civilian. For LMI, she stood up and oversees the business transformation sub-service line, home to our strategic planning, product innovation, and change management experts.

Ryan Loving

As a U.S. Army veteran and executive leader with 20 years of industry experience, Ryan brings a disciplined approach to business development, coupled with project delivery expertise, to drive market growth.

Stephanie Frilling

Stephanie brings over 20 years of experience in public health, care delivery, private insurance, and quality improvement methods to LMI’s federal healthcare customers. She has extensive regulatory and policy understanding of alternative payment models and payment incentives that drive quality and improve patient outcomes.

Tips for Successful IT Adoption Management

When it comes to transformation projects, the risk of failure falls between 70 to 95 percent. While the reasons for failure vary, the overarching challenge is related to people—and most IT deployments do not result in cost savings or improvements to the mission. 

Three Considerations for VA and DHA Digital Transformation

The transformation will improve organizations and patient outcomes. LMI experts have been strategic partners throughout other large-scale digital transformations and offer insights to help these projects succeed. 

LMI Selected as 2020 U.S. Postal Service Supplier Performance Award Winner

U.S. Postal Service selects LMI as a Service Supplier Performance Award recipient for their work in, project, program and portfolio management. LMI has supported the U.S. Postal Service for over 20 years to foster innovation to improve process and program performance.

LMI Selected to Support Assessment, Monitoring, and Evaluation for Security Cooperation Programs

LMI will help establish an assessment, monitoring, and evaluation (AM&E) program for the Department of Defense. 

LMI Selected to Support HHS ASPR’s Countermeasures Acceleration Group

LMI has been awarded a two-year, $24 million contract to provide support to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response’s (ASPR) Countermeasures Acceleration Group (CAG). 

Golden Bear 3: Mike Dingman on Fostering Innovation

In this interview, Mike details Capability Prototype’s (formerly the Rapid Reaction Technology Office) for the DoD Golden Bear 3 meeting for fostering innovation.

GAO High-Risk Series: Supply Chain Management

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report highlighting the successful efforts of federal government agencies to address high-risk areas and improve programs.

Five Practices for Building Resilience: For You and Your Team

In the article “What Resilience Means, and Why It Matters,” Andrea Ovans describes resiliency as “the ability to recover from setbacks, adapt well to change, and keep going in the face of adversity.” Resiliency is an essential component of dynamic leadership and critical for promoting a team’s well-being and performance and preventing burnout. The more challenging the environment, the more crucial it is—and our current work/life environment is more challenging than ever before.

Exciting Results Behind the Scenes of Account Reconciliation

LMI's Financial Operations and Accountability practice area has produced exciting results for the General Services Administration's National Rent Bill Office through our highly effective account reconciliation process.

Emerging Challenges in Combating the Evolving Foreign Investment and Influence Threat

The theft of intellectual property from American government agencies, businesses, and academic institutions is a serious, on-going, and growing national security threat.

Thomas McConnell

Tom McConnell supports Department of Defense’s Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship-for-Service Program.

Shaye Brotherton

Shaye Brotherton provides solution architect expertise across diverse LMI service lines, focusing on integration of disparate capabilities and innovation areas.

Raymond Compton

Ray Compton, a retired U.S. Army colonel, joined LMI in 2019 and serves as a principal for National Security Science & Technology, supporting internal and external LMI stakeholders in the strategic development of integrated solutions for capability gaps in national defense.

Natalie Lieberman

Natalie leads LMI’s document production team of technical editors, proofreaders, desktop publishers, and 508 remediation specialists.

Maureen Merkl

Dr. Maureen Merkl, a registered nurse, came to LMI from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). There, she worked with severely injured, ill, or wounded post-9/11 service members to support their recovery, rehab, and transition from active duty to veteran status.

Marlise Streitmatter

Marlise leads LMI’s new normal practice, helping federal agencies transition to hybrid and remote operational models, integrate virtual technologies, and train supervisors to manage a highly engaged distributed workforce.

Kristen Cheman

Kristen’s deep commitment to leadership and forward-leaning approach to developing our digital capabilities drives growth in the digital analytics space.

Kent Weaver

Kent is a 30-year veteran of the Defense Intelligence Enterprise working within LMI’s National Security Operations. Kent is focused on forging new business opportunities and creating new capabilities focused on assisting the digital transformation of the Intelligence Community.

Keith Rodgers

Keith brings nearly two decades of experience in leveraging innovative techniques to assess organizational performance and challenges.

Kathleen McLernon

Kathleen McLernon, a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and Lean Six Sigma black belt and instructor, provides expertise and support to LMI’s National Security Programs (NSP). She works closely with LMI’s Program Management Center of Excellence and NSP project leaders to ensure quality performance and win new business.

Employee Spotlight: Meet Corinne Tochman

"Innovation is always necessary to serve the customer because change is the only constant in life."

Strategies and Tactics for Engaging High, Medium, and Low Performers

Organizations with a positive team culture tend to have more engaged, higher performing employees. 

Change Management

For federal agencies to become more agile and responsive to mission needs, enterprise-wide change is often required. To support this transformation, LMI built an organizational change management (OCM) model to assess an agency’s operating environment, identify priorities, and furnish strategies that facilitate effective adoption.

Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction

LMI helps customers adopt the latest capabilities and methodologies to advance the CWMD and chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) defense missions.

National Security, Science & Technology

LMI deploys experts in chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) defense and preparedness; life sciences and biosecurity; and program management to enhance mission effectiveness of clients conducting weapons of mass destruction (WMD) mitigation, global threat reduction, and non- and counter-proliferation activities. 

Jill Cahill

Ms. Cahill is an experienced resource management professional who served for 22 years as an Army Finance officer, contributing to the Planning, Programming, Budgeting & Execution (PPBE) process for Headquarters, Department of the Army, and several subordinate Army commands.

‘Tis the Season of Lame Duck Appropriations

It’s no surprise the federal government is operating under a continuing resolution (CR)—timely passage of appropriation bills has been a rarity for decades. The burning question is, what will happen when the current CR ends during this lame-duck congressional session?

Jessica Bryan

Jessica Bryan works within LMI’s strategy and organizational management group.

James Choung

James, a retired Army colonel who has led large multidisciplinary teams for combined arms operations and defense systems acquisition, supports LMI’s engagement with customers who contribute to countering weapons of mass destruction (CWMD).

Chrissy Cocrane

Chrissy leads a diverse practice of over 800 human, programmatic, scientific, and technological management consulting professionals.

Chris Badorrek, PhD

Chris has deep expertise in the areas of process development and current goods manufacturing for vaccines and therapeutics; DNA, RNA, and protein chemistry and modeling; bacteriology; retrovirology; chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive sensor and device development; and novel materials for detection of chemical analytes at trace (parts per billion and trillion) levels.

Project Spotlight: DoD SMART Scholarship-for-Service Program

The SMART team successfully distributed more than $170 million with 100% on-time payments to scholars and universities over the last four years.

Jonathan Baba Joins LMI Leadership Team as Senior Vice President, Defense Market 

Tysons, Va.— LMI is pleased to announce that Jonathan (Jon) Baba has joined LMI as senior vice president, defense market. He brings over 20 years of public-sector experience supporting the Department of Defense (DoD) and defense industry. 

How Guided Conversations Can Help Leaders with Challenging Topics and Result in Positive Actions

During difficult times, leaders must be front and center and address issues head-on to build organizational resilience. Staff members look to their leaders to show them how to navigate times of uncertainty and change. Being there for your staff members in challenging times is one of the most important things you can do to build team resilience and cohesiveness.

To Improve FEVS Scores, Take a Deeper Dive into the “eh”

Whether you’re managing a small office or an entire organization, look for ways to improve your Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) scores across the board — not just in the negative areas. Making incremental changes that are meaningful and measurable in all areas can help improve employee engagement and morale. However, to do so, you first have to uncover the underlying reasons for the scores.

Human Capital Analytics & the Workforce of the Future

Leveraging technology, psychology, and organizational design to find, attract, and retain the right people for your missions. 

Policy Planning & Operations

We excel at helping leaders leverage automated analytic solutions to expedite policy analysis and evaluation and quantify the effects of new regulations. 

Sustainability

LMI adapts industry-leading approaches to customers’ unique mission needs. We support energy, sustainability, and climate resilience efforts with customizable analysis and reporting tools. 

Business & Digital Transformation

LMI takes customers on a tailored digital transformation journey, ranging from small digital enhancements to enterprise-wide transformations. 

Strategy & Transformation

At LMI, we’re creating innovative solutions to transform emerging needs into extraordinary outcomes at The New Speed of Possible™. 

How Value-Based Care Can Improve for Patients, Providers and Payers Post COVID-19

The federal government has focused on value-based care to increase efficiency in healthcare. Here’s what we must do to ensure the model’s success. 

LMI’s DEIA Maturity Model Helps Organizations Build on Strengths, Improve Weaknesses

The DEIA Maturity Model is used to assess an organization's current state of DEIA according to representation, opportunity, and buy-in.

Managing the Return to Onsite Work: There’s No One-Size-Fits-All Solution

Managing the Return to Onsite Work: There’s No One-Size-Fits-All Solution

To successfully return from remote to onsite work, managers will need to draw on all their leadership skills, including empathy, flexibility, and agility.

Managing Up to Achieve Success for You, Your Supervisor, and Your Organization

No matter your level, managing up is a soft skill that’s essential for getting things done, succeeding at your job, or getting promoted. Thousands of books have been written on this topic because our individual success not only depends on how well we do our jobs, or how we collaborate with our colleagues, or even how good we are at managing people under our own supervision, but also on how well we manage our relationships with the people above us. Easier said than done, right? That may be true, but there are several things you can do to help.

LMI’s Derrick Spain: Technical Expert for WIC Program

LMI’s end goal while supporting the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program and Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) is to help our client reach their specific goals and ultimately improve health equity and the communities they serve.

LMI Migrating the Maintenance and Availability Data Warehouse to Advana

LMI has been awarded a 1-year, $1.5 million contract for a one-time data migration from the LMI-created Maintenance and Availability Data Warehouse (MADW) to the Advana Data Warehouse for the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center.

To Improve Federal Workplace Morale, Simple Civility Is Not Enough

Building an inclusive, positive work environment that enables cohesion and collaboration requires not just civility, but “active” civility. 

The Top 3 Strategies Every Leader Needs for a Successful Digital Transformation

Successful organizational change depends on leaders who can inspire innovation, create digital strategies, understand and lead an agile team, and leverage the power of standing-up new technology solutions while managing risks.

Lifecycle Management & Modernization

LMI’s logistics management and modernization methods have improved customer outcomes for over 60 years by optimizing lifecycle system performance, affordability, and sustainment. 

LMI Increases Support to DHS Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office

LMI will provide CBRN subject matter expertise, program administration, interagency training exercises, medical operations, and information coordination services.

Employee Spotlight: Meet Ray Compton

Ray Compton, a retired U.S. Army colonel, joined LMI in 2019 and serves as a principal for National Security Science & Technology, supporting internal and external LMI stakeholders in the strategic development of integrated solutions for capability gaps in national defense. 

Employee Spotlight: Meet Katherine Coles

Katherine is passionate about helping leaders and teams build inclusive cultures and achieve organizational goals.

Employee Spotlight: John Bogdan, Principal, Biology

John Bogdan, LMI biology principal, is a widely recognized leader and subject matter expert in vaccines and therapeutics for infectious disease. Discover how his love of science links his professional career of solving complex problems to his personal life and even as he mentors aspiring science students.

Demystifying the Annual Budget Process

We assist our federal customers in drafting compelling budget justification material for the President’s Budget and thorough responses to congressional inquiries.

Intelligence

Our strategic advisory services are coupled with innovative digital solutions to reduce the time to mission value for our customers. 

What We Do

Supporting missions that have shaped the nation since 1961, we apply long-standing expertise to create sustainable solutions. 

Resources To Navigate the Age of COVID-19

Visit our resource center for the latest information and insights to help our federal clients navigate the age of COVID-19.

Carol Christian

Carol has three decades of financial and IT project management experience, more than half of it on behalf of LMI and its customers.

Cost Estimation Best Practices for Better Program Decisions and Outcomes

Beyond accuracy, program managers and decision-makers must understand the major tradeoffs to right-size programs and budgets for the best outcome for the American taxpayer.

Call on Your Coach to Help You and Your Team Navigate These Challenging Times

Emotions are contagious and a leader’s emotions can affect their team. As difficult as the last few year’s upheaval in work and home life have been, being a positive leader will help others catch your attitude and follow your lead. For help bolstering your positive leadership presence and resilience, call on a coach for support.

Next-Level Program Management with Master Scheduling

Advanced programs have diverse milestones and end goals. Executives require an abstract, high-level summary of these elements while analysts need concrete, actionable details. A well-engineered and tailored schedule enables all stakeholders to access the appropriate information to achieve mission success.

An Agile Framework for Research and Development

LMI developed an agile framework for research and development that encourages the creation of rapid prototypes based on Innovation and crowdsourced ideas. 

Data Analytics Can Address the U.S. Substance Abuse Crisis

Substance abuse is on the rise in America, but the federal government has an opportunity to leverage data analytics for an effective response. 

The Benefits of Building a Diverse Workforce

The future of business and government demands a greater emphasis on diversity in order to be competitive. While many organizations know that diversity is an extremely important asset to a business, it's even more important to look and why and how diversity impacts the workforce. How is your workplace hiring and empowering a diverse workforce, and how do you measure it?

Calculating Your Water Footprint to Improve Resilience

One way to calculate an organization’s water footprint is to literally measure the water used at a facility or series of facilities. But what happens when operations are far more complicated?

Countering Threats through Innovative Synergies

As a project leader at LMI, Joe Cartelli supports two Joint Enterprise Omnibus Program Engineering and Technical Support contracts by managing client relations and five delivery orders.

Accelerating Integrated Early Warning for DoD’s CBRN Defense

LMI delivered a rapid capability prototype that emulates new CBRN detection technologies in operational environments.