Accelerating Government Efficiency: How LMI Helped a Major Federal Agency Drive Millions in Cost Savings

Transforming Government Operations for Maximum Efficiency

Recent mandates call for federal agencies to streamline operations, reduce costs, and modernize systems with agility. LMI’s government efficiency and technology transformation (GETT) playbook moves agencies beyond incremental improvements, leveraging commercial solutions to drive large-scale transformation.

Our work with a major federal agency demonstrates substantial cost savings and operational efficiencies through strategic modernization and policy streamlining. By integrating commercial technology, eliminating redundancies, and reengineering processes, the agency saved over $300 million—all while enhancing mission effectiveness.

Delivering Immediate and Measurable Cost Savings

IT redundancies, bureaucratic inefficiencies, and outdated policies challenge the federal government, hindering operational agility. With GETT’s playbook, LMI helped a major federal agency achieve the following:

• Streamline IT systems and eliminate redundancies, saving over $300 million to date.
• Optimize supplier contracting and asset visibility, unlocking an additional $40 million in savings.
• Reduce bureaucratic barriers by 80%, cutting over 15,000 pages of policy documents—improving decision-making speed and organizational agility.

These efficiency gains align with the presidential government efficiency mandate, reinforcing the critical role of commercial best practices in federal transformation efforts.

Maximizing Success: The GETT Playbook in Action

• Strategic Execution and Governance
  Transformation isn’t just about new initiatives—it’s about disciplined execution focused on measurable mission outcomes. LMI supported the agency in establishing a best-in-class strategy execution governance framework, ensuring that key initiatives accomplished the following:

  • Effective implementation at pace without common bottlenecks
  • Clear accountability from tracking business outcomes through data-driven metrics
  • Sustainable results through commercial strategy execution best practices.

  Result: The agency outperformed other organizations with its transformation roadmap, executing 76% of its transformation initiatives on schedule, exceeding efficiency benchmarks for top performing organizations.

• Bureaucratic Policy Reduction
  Decades of bureaucratic accumulation had burdened this agency (like many federal agencies) with a massive backlog of policies and procedures, slowing decision-making and efficiency. The leadership engaged LMI to lead an unprecedented enterprise-wide policy transformation initiative that resulted in the following:

  • Over 900 policy documents (more than 15,000 pages) reviewed and streamlined, focusing only on essential compliance, regulatory, and contractual requirements
  • Outdated and redundant compliance hurdles eliminated, enhancing agility
  • Policies aligned with commercial best practices for future scalability.

  Result: Reduced the page count for policy documents from 15,000 pages to under 1,000, accelerating approvals and improving operational flexibility.

• Technology Modernization and Process Optimization
  LMI served as the Program Management Office for multiple technology transformation efforts, ensuring seamless adoption of modern, commercial, scalable technology solutions.

  Accomplishments:

  • Supported the migration to commercial software-as-a-service platforms, optimizing IT portfolio investments to align digital tools with transformation goals.
  • Implemented the SAFe  method and practices to streamline the digital transformation of outdated systems, deploying new solutions to improve efficiency.
  • Developed and maintains an integrated master schedule, business process improvement workflows, technical documents, business needs and decision artifacts, technical and user requirement artifacts, and supporting documentation for cross-functional team coordination.

  Result: Over $300 million saved through IT system consolidation and adoption of commercial digital solutions.

Driving Efficiency at the Pace of Mission Need

With the federal 90-day transformation mandate requiring rapid action, this agency’s success serves as a model for how to modernize operations, drive down costs, and reinvest in mission-critical functions.

LMI’s GETT playbook is built for this moment—helping agencies architect workforce and technology for tangible efficiency and mission gains. Efficiency and modernization aren’t just possible; they’re necessary for the future of government operations.