Booz Allen Hamilton has significant experience working with clients and system developers to provide system-of-systems (SoS) blueprints, roadmaps, and integrations. Booz Allen’s Mission Integration (MI) methodology, supported by a key role, the enterprise integrator, enables the government to drive out inefficiencies and, more important, meet its cross-organizational mission needs.

1. About Booz Allen
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management consulting,
technology, and engineering
services to the US government
in defense, intelligence, and
civil markets, and to major
corporations, institutions, and
not-for-profit organizations.
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in McLean, Virginia, employs
more than 23,000 people, and
had revenue of $5.76 billion
for the 12 months ended
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The Enterprise Integrator Abstract
Improving Mission Effectiveness in a Fiscally
Constrained Environment Through Mission Integration
Agencies have long been plagued by siloed IT systems. When developed in relative
isolation, these drive up costs with needless duplication and inefficiencies, and their
lack of interoperability undermines mission performance by hindering information sharing
and collaboration among agencies with shared mission responsibilities. Many regard the
problem as an inevitable consequence of systems acquisition and ask themselves if it’s
even possible to eliminate siloed processes and systems to streamline operations and meet
cross-organizational mission needs. The answer is, “Yes.”
The essential missing element for organizations is an “enterprise blueprint” that clearly
details critical inter-system interfaces and dictates the design specifics for each system
developer within the enterprise. Booz Allen Hamilton has developed an innovative mission
integration methodology that enables organizations to think (and act) in terms of an
enterprise that is comprised of multiple systems that interoperate seamlessly as a systemof-systems (SoS).
Booz Allen’s approach relies on the role of an enterprise integrator to serve as the
government’s agent within the enterprise to promote interoperability and prevent silos from
developing around the enterprise’s systems and subsystems. For example, the enterprise
integrator designs the enterprise SoS blueprint and ensures that the SoS architecture
is an open architecture, which maximizes interoperability and gives organizations the
ability to acquire system functionality from multiple technology providers. Among other
responsibilities, the enterprise integrator works with systems developers to make sure
their solutions align with the architecture, and works with program managers to perform
communications “campaigns” and outreach to ensure that all stakeholders are involved and
updated throughout the process.
One of the benefits of this approach is that the government maintains ownership over the
enterprise integrator’s design artifacts, which eliminates technology dependence and vendor
lock-in. In addition, eliminating the complex and costly post-fielding investment required to
integrate unique, proprietary solutions significantly reduces the acquisition cost of the overall
SoS. And the government avoids investments in duplicate technology, freeing up resources to
develop new capabilities.

2. In an era of increased mission sharing and collaboration, the government must abandon
its hands-off approach that places the responsibility on systems developers to produce
interoperable systems. Instead, the government should adopt an enterprise perspective
that engages an enterprise integrator to develop the blueprints that dictate the system
specifications to developers to ensure interoperability within an SoS environment. Booz
Allen’s Mission Integration methodology, supported by the enterprise integrator, enables the
government enterprise to standardize interfaces, break down silos, and integrate processes
and systems to drive out inefficiencies and enable true mission integration.
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