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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. 

Workshop | Empowering Government with Generative AI: Large Language Models for Public Service

Tuesday, September 5th, 2023  

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.

Federating Data Management Through Data Mesh

Shifting towards a Data Mesh implementation is as much, if not more, of a people and process transformation as a technology transformation.

Innovating the PPBE Process at the Pace of Need

As trusted providers of Innovation at the Pace of Need™, LMI stands ready to adapt PPBE processes to support the future of DoD and other federal agencies’ missions. 

The Evolving National Security Landscape

The U.S. national security establishment has produced several documents outlining the mounting risks from global climate change and environmental degradation. 

Emerging Issues and Opportunities of the Genomic Data Revolution

Now is the time to get your organization ready for the genomic data revolution. From government agencies to the private sector, from healthcare to technology, and everything in between, all organizations need to be prepared for upcoming challenges and opportunities.

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. 

Skills-Based Analytics Transform Hiring and Talent Management

As an internal research and development project, LMI created the Human Capital Data Analytics platform to tackle the skills-forward nature of today’s hiring, retention, and resource allocation challenges. 

Healthcare Compliance

LMI’s compliance approach centers on reducing programmatic risks while minimizing participants’ burden through data analytics and proactive engagement and education.

Data Entrepreneurship Challenge: FAQs

Get answers to frequently asked questions about the challenge.

LMI Awarded JE-OPETS Logistics and Medical Component Task Order

LMI has been selected to support the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense (JPEO-CBRND) Logistics and Medical business area.

Ryan Stem

Ryan Stem is an accomplished project manager with 12 years of professional experience, primarily in the IT industry.

LMI Selected to Expand Support to U.S. Army Through STEPSS Contract

LMI has been selected to support the U.S. Army’s Combat Capabilities Development Command Chemical Biological Center (DEVCOM CBC). This 10-year, potential $869 million Scientific, Technical, Engineering and Program Support Services (STEPSS) multiple-award task order contract will allow LMI to continue helping prepare the U.S. Army to detect and respond to chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) threats. 

LMI Selected to Support GSA’s OFM’s Energy Division and Climate and Sustainability Division through Renewable Energy BPA

LMI will provide subject matter expertise and program management services for the GSA Public Buildings Service (PBS) Office of Facilities Management (OFM) Energy Division and Climate and Sustainability Division. 

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). 

LMI to Support Policy Management and Reporting for DoD Security Cooperation

LMI will assist the Department of Defense (DoD) in streamlining policy development and reporting for its security cooperation activities in support of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), with a total potential contract value of approximately $5 million.

Using AI To Improve Hazard Response

AI/ML acts as a force multiplier, amplifying the quality of results fed into the decision-making process, ultimately saving valuable time. 

LMI Supports ODASD(MR) Efforts to Lower Costs and Improve Warfighter Readiness through Innovation

LMI will provide industrial base assessments, data analytics, and policy and resource management services to assist the Department of Defense (DoD) in meeting materiel readiness requirements across its complex sustainment enterprise. 

Sergio Posadas

Serg leads delivery of advanced analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. He joined LMI as part of the acquisition of Clockwork Solutions in 2019, having led data science services there since 2009.

Rob Kline

Rob is a longtime LMI expert in systems modeling, data analytics, logistics analyses, and software development.

Matt Granger

Matt Granger leads solutions architecture for LMI’s Digital Services service line, specializing in ServiceNow and enterprise applications.

Marion Kennedy

Marion is an accomplished executive with more than 25 years of experience in both government and private sector organizations and has dedicated her career to serving the Intelligence Community (IC).

Kristen Cheman

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

Kim Barnette, PhD

Kim Barnette is the program manager for LMI’s team at NASA, implementing diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) initiatives within their Science Mission Directorate.

LMI to Perform Study on Future of NASA’s Upper Class E Airspace Operations

LMI will advise the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under the Air Traffic Management–eXploration (ATM-X) project by conducting a future-focused research study to assess the market and traffic management requirements for Upper Class E airspace.

Keith Rodgers

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

Joshua Wilson

Josh is the president of markets, growth, and technology at LMI, where he is responsible for business development, technology development and prototyping. He previously served as LMI’s executive vice president of service lines and technology, leading LMI’s concept development and customer delivery of capabilities for advanced analytics and artificial intelligence (AI), data and enterprise operations, and digital solutions.

TBM Council Honors LMI for Strategic Planning

The strategic planning award recognizes organizations that align financial plans with business priorities and adjust plans to reflect shifting priorities, reduce risk, and capitalize on market opportunities.

Why Hedging Is Essential for Resilient Supply Chains

COVID-19 showed how just-in-time logistics and ultra-lean supply chains fail in times of uncertainty, compounding health risks and threats to national security. Hedging can help ensure that doesn’t happen again. 

Employee Spotlight: Meet Joe Norton

As chief technology officer, Joe nurtures innovation through organizational culture and structure while allowing LMI to deliver scalable, repeatable, and robust solutions to our customers.

Toward a Comprehensive and Robust Synthetic Data Policy

This workshop sought to broaden the conversation toward a comprehensive synthetic data policy that would advance, empower, and protect our government as synthetic data is increasingly used.

Supply Chain Integrity: Critical Every Day

LMI has 60+ years of experience ensuring that clients receive the best logistics support. In his recent blog, Jon Amis explains why supply chain integrity must be considered throughout the entire year. Our supply chain management practice assists with all aspects of a customer’s supply chain, from managing assets, property, and inventory, to performance measures, process improvement, and overall supply chain risk.

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.

Health Solutions

LMI delivers innovative health solutions for mission impact at the pace of need, enabling our federal health customers to thrive while adapting to modern mission needs.

ServiceNow

LMI has the expertise and flexibility to handle the federal government’s ServiceNow needs. 

Occupational Safety & Health

LMI helps federal agencies tailor OSH programs to unique missions, workforce requirements, and business processes. 

Forge™ Technology Studio: Prototypes

Our prototypes are shaping the nation of next. From developing a wearable integrated sensor platform (WISP) that drives decision-making to shaping solutions that streamline supply chains like LogSmart™ Supply, our work at the edge of possible reimagines mission capability. 

LogSmart™: The right logistics insights before you need them.

LogSmart™ is a configurable suite of applications for increasing effectiveness and efficiency of logistics operations. 

Baseline, Strategy & Program Support

LMI’s baseline assessment and strategy development uses rigorous analysis to identify key gaps in your current risk management approach and provides recommendations for the most impactful investments.  

Supply Chain Risk Assessments

LMI develops cutting-edge machine learning applications to proactively identify supply chain risks and leverage prescriptive analytics to help organizations modernize their approach to risk identification and mitigation. 

Lattice™

Secure, Customizable, Real-Time Analytics 

Data-driven decision-making requires more than sophisticated tools. LMI helps federal agencies align their technology, data, and workforces to optimize delivery of advanced analytics capabilities. With LMI's common analytics environment—Lattice™—organizations gain a deeper understanding of how data strengthen decision-making and workforce collaboration.

Jessica Garcia

Jessica Garcia joined LMI in 2019 as part of its Clockwork Solutions acquisition.

Serving the Underserved Through Better Data and Analysis

Auditing agency data is a critical first step to improving access to services for underserved communities. 

LMI and UVA Partner to Lead the Data Science Community to Serve the Public Good

LMI partners with UVA to facilitate an exchange of ideas needed to formulate, refine, and implement innovative solutions for U.S. government stakeholders.

Beacon™: Data Management and Analytics Platform

Beacon™ enables data scientists and consumers to discover, manage, and use data sets for analytics in a shared space. 

SysLinks™—System Optimization and Network Linkages

SysLinks™ is the first practical method for linking reliability and maintainability models with spares optimization for complex networks. This new methodology helps managers pinpoint investments that will have the greatest positive impact on mission success.

OpenPolicy™ Knowledge Makes Document Searches Smarter

LMI’s OpenPolicy is a semantic tool that examines scores of documents simultaneously using subject-specific thesauri of key terms, synonyms, acronyms, and other related terms and phrases. This enhanced vocabulary-based semantic search capability pinpoints relevant paragraphs and highlights information across databases. 

Interoperability Can Unlock the Future of Healthcare

Healthcare systems require seamless data flow, visibility, and agility in communication. 

What the U.S. Must Do Now To Avoid the Next Pandemic

COVID-19 is not the first pandemic the United States has faced, but it may be the one that teaches us some very modern lessons about public trust, our surveillance networks, and effective response management. Here’s what the U.S. can learn from past pandemics and COVID-19 to ensure an effective response to the next pandemic. 

Erwin Villiger

Erwin is a senior subject matter expert with more than 25 years of experience at the nexus of national security and the environment.

LMI Awarded the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) Data Readiness Artificial Intelligence Development (DRAID) Program Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA)

LMI will provide a broad spectrum of data management and analytic services for the Department of Defense (DoD) Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) with the goal of accelerating artificial intelligence (AI) scaling across the department.

Evaluate Inventory and Financial Impacts Before Making Changes

FINISIM™ is a discrete event simulation that provides rapid analyses of complex, large-scale inventory and financial systems and the interaction between them, tracking supply-chain–related financial metrics.

Demystifying ChatGPT for Government Leaders

Technologies work best when used as human-in-the-loop capabilities, with the model functioning as an accelerator.

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. 

Featured Solutions

We’re creating innovative solutions to transform emerging needs into extraordinary impacts at The New Speed of Possible™.

Here’s How To Leverage Data for Health Equity

In the U.S., race, socioeconomic status, and zip code predict life expectancy—we discuss how to build more equity into the healthcare system.

Implementing AI in Government

LMI's Keith Rodgers outlines what agencies should keep in mind when considering implementation of AI tools and how to optimize these technologies.

Integrating IoT and Sensors To Improve Infrastructure Management Systems

When paired with AI/ML, the data provided by IoT devices and sensors offer insights on the status and condition of assets while enhancing utility, efficiency, and resiliency. Our experts weigh in on what is important to consider when implementing these technologies to improve infrastructure management.

Programmatic Efficiencies & Effectiveness

Our team delivers the insights, tools, people, and processes for lifecycle program management, planning, and operations support as well as full-scope financial solutions. 

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. 

Predicting Failure: Is the Government Finally Ready for Predictive Fleet Maintenance?

Our workshop brought together experts from government, industry, and academia to identify the past obstacles to progress and propose solutions.

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. 

Infrastructure Resilience

LMI helps federal agencies strengthen infrastructure resiliency with data-driven strategies that respect natural resources and support sustainability. 

Real-Time Logistics Visualization To Save Time and Money When Tracking High-Value Assets

Automating logistics operations of the Naval Supply Systems Command O65 with advanced analytics and automated tracking of high-value assets using RFID.

LMI Participates in Viz for Social Good Challenge for India Water Portal

Members of LMI’s Data Visualization community of practice volunteered their time to participate in the Viz for Social Good Challenge.

LMI Team Receives Specialized Biomonitoring Training

LMI’s environmental planning team (Jennifer Brown, Ashley Rivero, and David Walls) completed lichen biomonitoring training sponsored by the U.S. Forest Service, Region 6. The team spent three days in the Rouge River–Siskiyou National Forest’s Kalmiopsis Wilderness, where they learned how to set a biomonitoring plot, calculate tree density, identify lichen plant communities, set abundance scores, and collect tissue samples for analysis.

LMI’s Approach to Improving Government Supply Chains

Supply chains are rapidly changing. Knowing how to make supply chains efficient and effective is more important than ever, but sometimes the challenge is knowing what to focus on and which practices to implement. 

LMI’s Clark Spencer Talks Joint Health Risk Management (JHRM) for Defense Health

Using artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), we can make predictions about health consequences for the warfighter and deployed civilian personnel before they occur.

Generative AI Renaissance

The future has arrived in the form of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI).

Digital Twin

LMI uses digital twin technology to help government agencies obtain visibility, achieve situational awareness, and improve enterprise-wide decisions. 

The Time to Get Ahead of Telehealth Fraud and Abuse Is Now

The pandemic illustrated telehealth’s importance for our healthcare system but payers must get ahead of fraud and abuse issues to make telehealth effective.

Assessing & Anticipating Rapidly Evolving Capabilities

LMI tailors data-driven approaches to select, develop, and mature capabilities with simultaneous and integrated analytical, simulation, prototyping, demonstration, and transition activities. Our customers engage with feedback throughout the process for continuous improvements. 

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.

Enterprise Maintenance and Operations Support for WIC Program

LMI's Les Milner has over 30 years of experience working in information technology while supporting the WIC program alongside over 40 state agencies, Indian Tribal Organizations (ITO), and territories on multiple contracts.

Logistics Automation: Where Military and Commercial Applications Converge

To combat labor shortages in the transportation market, much of the world is investing in automated processes. For the U.S. military, logistics automation will be necessary in contested environments where near-peer adversaries target our logistics capabilities.

How the FDA Can Improve the Vaccine Approval Process

We can apply the lessons from the COVID pandemic to vaccine and treatment submissions moving forward. Here’s how. 

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.

LMI Workshop Examines Data Ethics for Government

How can organizations ensure artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) techniques are free from human biases? 

Operation Warp Speed

LMI provided expertise in planning, strategy development, tools, and techniques in coordination and support of Operation Warp Speed. 

Intelligent Readiness & Modernization

LMI’s readiness modernization methods employ advanced modeling and simulation techniques to enhance decision-making at the tactical and enterprise levels through insights into the effects of various scenarios on readiness. 

DARPA LogX

The DARPA LogX program examines the resiliency of the global supply chain via data disruptions and various modeling approaches. 

Cybersecurity

LMI specializes in cyber governance, risk, and compliance to help government agencies establish frameworks that align with regulatory requirements and effectively manage risk. 

Contested Logistics Decision Dominance

Leveraging DoD data, LMI’s technology accelerator, the Forge™, uses agile methods and human-centered design to rapidly create solutions like our Contested Logistics Engine and Logistics Awareness Artificial Intelligence (AI) Simulation prototype for dynamic logistics planning in contested environments. 

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 Forms Digital and Analytic Solutions Unit to Accelerate Technology-Enabled Transformation for Federal Agencies

LMI has named Karen Britton as chief digital officer and vice president of marketing and communications and Josh Wilson as vice president of digital and analytic solutions, a new business unit resulting from the merger of its advanced analytics and digital services practices. 

Employee Spotlight: Meet Marshall Smith

Leveraging his over 25 years of predictive analytics experience, Marshall’s focus includes developing innovative solutions for customers and offering his expertise to grow LMI’s predictive analytics capabilities. 

Employee Spotlight: Meet Karen Goodson

Karen Goodson leads a team that offers innovative solutions to solve the Army’s toughest challenges.   

LMI Forge™ Technology Studio: Use Cases

Navigate Forge™ solutions addressing specific use cases. 

Employee Spotlight: Mark Stammler, Consultant, Data Engineering

Mark Stammler, Data Engineering consultant, has experience that spans multiple service lines at LMI, starting as an intern in 2019 and most recently becoming a consultant supporting customers in the data operations service line. Learn about his accomplishments, what he enjoys about working at LMI, and his advice to early career professionals.

RAPTR™

The Rapid Analysis and Prototyping Toolkit for Resiliency (RAPTR™) provides an extensible, scalable architecture for modeling, simulation, analysis, and visualization for the space warfighting domain as well as cross-domain integration. 

Space

LMI’s space market provides technical solutions as a trusted partner in the national security space industry. 

Internet of Things (IoT)

LMI helps customers make better risk management decisions through IoT technologies and toolkits using near-real-time analytical data. 

Data & Analytics

LMI provides advanced data and analytic consulting expertise, pairing data scientists with domain experts to deliver innovative solutions at the pace of need. 

Artificial Intelligence

Our approach to applied AI includes MLOps, the practice of integrating machine learning models into production environments in a streamlined and scalable way. 

Applied Artificial Intelligence (AI)

LMI's applied AI solutions equip leaders with tools, processes, and skills to derive insights from big data, business operations and technology infrastructure. 

What We Do

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

LMI Extends Support to USPS Corporate Sustainability and Energy Initiatives

LMI will recommend strategies to support program and policy development, research and analysis, enterprise data management, corporate solutions and reporting, and strategic and national-level planning.

LMI to Continue Support of DLA R&D Efforts

LMI will continue supporting the Defense Logistics Agency by providing cutting-edge innovations to improve its technology and business processes. LMI will furnish support in the areas of planning, procurement, product quality, technical data, and data management.

LMI to Continue Army Enterprise Systems Integration Program Support

LMI will continue to provide program management, business transformation, technical, and professional advisory services to the Project Manager, Army Data and Analytics Platforms (PM ARDAP), with a new three-year, $211 million award. LMI’s capabilities will enable the Army to modernize business operations and implement integrated management systems to transform Army enterprise resource planning and data systems.

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.

LMI Builds the Next Generation of DoD Civilian Scientists and Engineers with the SMART Scholarship-for-Service Program

LMI has been awarded a new five-year, $450 million contract supporting the Department of Defense’s Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (DoD SMART) Scholarship-for-Service Program.

LMI Awarded Larger Role Supporting Defense Acquisition and Sustainment

LMI will support defense officials who oversee acquisition, capability development, and lifecycle support of critical weapons systems. 

LMI Awarded JAIC Artificial Intelligence Center BPA

LMI has been selected as a Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) Test & Evaluation (T&E) Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) awardee.

LMI Awarded DHA's OMNIBUS IV IDIQ Contract in All Four Market Segments

LMI has been awarded the Defense Health Agency (DHA) OMNIBUS IV indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) $10 billion contract in all four market segments: (1) Research and Development; (2) Research and Development Support Services; (3) Regulatory Processes; and (4) Translational Science Support and Services. 

LMI and Exiger to Lead DLA Pilot Program

LMI announced today that it, along with Exiger, has been awarded a contract to create a DLA pilot program to illuminate supply chain resiliency using AI/ML.

LMI to Advise NASA on Future Automation in the Air Cargo Industry

LMI and its partners will conduct a future-focused research study that will inform federal regulatory and investment decisions. 

Kristen Cheman Named LMI Vice President of Digital & Analytic Solutions

LMI has promoted Kristen Cheman to vice president of digital & analytic solutions, where she combines subject matter expertise and leading-edge technologies to bring the best ideas and digitally-enabled services to our customers.

Joe Niehaus and Zaki Saleh Join LMI’s Senior Leadership Team

LMI promoted Joe Niehaus to senior vice president of the logistics service line and welcomes Zaki Saleh as senior vice president of the health & civilian market.

Brant Horio

Brant Horio leads and develops a large team of data scientists, operations researchers, and computational modelers.

Bruce Kaplan

With more than 35 years of experience in program management, source selection, information systems requirements and tools, and supply chain logistics, Bruce is one of LMI’s leading innovators and solution architects. He focuses on processes and technologies that cross organizational and functional boundaries to improve customer outcomes.

Brian Tonge

Brian has nearly 15 years of experience leading enterprise and organizational transformation initiatives.

Brandon Hill

Brandon Hill, a principal technical advisor for data visualization, adds value to strategic partnerships and investments through building teams, improving operational results, and establishing proper systems and controls.

Better Decisions Leveraging Existing Data: LMI’s Approach to Evidence Act Evaluations

LMI established and implemented tools and approaches to assist evaluations officers in scoring and selecting evaluation topics, creating annual evaluation plans, and executing discrete evaluations.

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. 

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?