Employee Spotlight: Meet Joe Norton

LMI Continues Audit Readiness and Support Services to DoD’s Innovative Readiness Training Program

LMI, a leading provider of management consulting services, has been awarded a $16.4 million contract to continue supporting Department of Defense (DoD) Innovative Readiness Training (IRT) along with other elements of the Civil-Military Programs (CMP) portfolio. 

LIGER™ for Policy

As a multifaceted platform, LIGER™ accelerates policy work in numerous ways, enhancing policy assessment and deepening the insights and impact of policy.

Low Code, High Impact

In an era where federal leaders are under increasing pressure to do more with less, the need to maximize the potential of their workforce through lean program operations has never been greater. Learn how LMI is accelerating program operations and driving change.

LMI Expands Digital Transformation Efforts for DLA Defense Enterprise Data Standards Office

LMI has been awarded a $9.4 million contract to continue functional and logistics systems interoperability support services for the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Information Operations (J6), Defense Enterprise Data Standards Office (DEDSO).

LMI Awarded Contract to Deliver NADACS Across Navy Public Shipyards

LMI has been awarded a $42.8M task order, with a total contract value of $98.4M, to deploy the Naval Autonomous Data Collection System (NADACS) across four U.S. Navy public shipyards.

Business Modernization

LMI helps leaders stay relevant, efficient, and adaptive in a dynamic business landscape. We modernize and streamline operations so leaders can focus on their mission. Our solutions leverage business process improvement, digital product innovation, and adaptive business operations, using cutting-edge tools and technology to help you thrive in an increasingly digital world.

Workforce Evolution

LMI’s holistic solutions help government workforces adapt to evolving goals and technological shifts, maximizing productivity and potential. We combine human capital expertise with innovation and technology to enhance employee experience, boost impact, and optimize talent across the management lifecycle. Using agile methodologies and digital tools, LMI accelerates workforce evolution.

Organizational Transformation

LMI architects, plans, and implements complex organizational transformations that ensure mission delivery while fostering cultural, procedural, and systemic change. Our initiative driven, organization-wide tiger team approach, combined with multimedia communication strategies and data-driven insights, drives continuous improvement and keeps your workforce informed.

LMI Selected to Support Army Digital Transformation Initiatives

LMI has been selected to provide Technical Services and Products to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Data, Engineering, and Software (DASA-DES). This contract, with a ceiling value of $47.6M, represents a new milestone in LMI's commitment to supporting the U.S. Army's digital transformation efforts. 

Automating Financial Responsibilities

How LMI’s Performance Optimization and Adaptive Digital Operations Lines of Business are Streamlining Processes by employing Robotic Process Automation.

Unlocking the Potential of GenAI for Streamlined Federal Contracting

LMI’s tailored acquisition solutions enable customers to make informed decisions for acquisition program management and contracting. 

LMI Selected to Continue Partnership with Defense Standardization Program Office

The Department of Defense’s Defense Standardization Program Office (DSPO) has selected LMI to continue enhancing the DSPO’s initiatives and activities through technical and functional services. 

LMI to Develop SCREEn Supply Chain Risk Management Support Capability for DoD

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.

LMI’s Technology and Innovation Showcase

Join us on Thursday, October 10th to experience firsthand how LMI constructs early-stage concepts on advanced technology.

LMI Human Performance Program Enhancing U.S. Air Force Air Education and Training Command

The United States Air Force Air Education and Training Command (AETC), 17th Training Group, 312th Training Squadron, has selected LMI to support its mission of training and developing fire emergency services across the Department of Defense.

Generative AI, Automation, Bots, and the need to ensure new technologies making today easier, aren’t adding to tomorrow’s risks!

LMI can help any government organization select and oversee software providers to implement technology responsibly and according to regulations.

NASA Selects LMI for Data Analysis and Technical Support Services

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has selected LMI to provide a wide range of technology-enabled strategic management and technical solutions through the Data Analysis and Technical Support Services II (DATSS II) blanket purchase agreement.  

Symposium Registration | Generative AI 2024

Please join us for LMI’s symposium, Real-World Gen AI: A Tool for Today’s Government, A Vision for Tomorrow. 

LMI Forge™ Technology Showcase

Thursday, May 2nd, 2024 

Effective Property Tracking Improves Audit Results

In keeping with the principles of LMI’s performance optimization line of business, our teams of subject matter experts optimize key controls for consistent, compliant, and effective operations. LMI leverages considerable experience across DoD in optimizing and updating internal controls and remediating audit findings to work with organizations.

Agile Project Scheduling: The LMI Way

At LMI, we tailor agile frameworks to address your needs. Whether you are implementing a hybrid or traditional PMO schedule, LMI’s adaptable schedule processes will get you there. Through our performance optimization line of business, LMI uses agile scheduling to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of organizations and operations.

Risk Management in an Agile World

Coupled with its Performance Optimization Line of Business, LMI uses Risk Management to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of organizations and operations. If your organization is looking to better integrate Project and Risk Management activities within your specific Agile environment, LMI’s team of Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) subject matter experts can help.

Kristen Cheman and Keith Rodgers Assume New Roles at LMI

LMI is pleased to announce Kristen Cheman’s transition from senior vice president (SVP), digital and analytic solutions, to SVP, intelligence market. In addition, Keith Rodgers has been promoted from vice president, advanced analytics & artificial intelligence, to SVP, digital and analytic solutions. 

March: National Ethics Awareness Month and the Use of a Medicare Voluntary Advance Directive Framework

Driving innovation for a better tomorrow, LMI offers advanced analytics and digital capabilities and a dedication to enhancing public health, making it a uniquely qualified choice to develop a Medicare Voluntary Advance Directive Framework. 

LMI Selected to Provide Program Management Office (PMO) Support to Global Combat Support System Army (GCSS-Army)

LMI has been awarded a five-year, $65 million contract to provide program management, business transformation, and technical, financial, and professional advisory services to U.S. Army Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems' (PEO EIS) Global Combat Support System-Army (GCSS-Army) Program Management Office (PMO). 

Strategic Investment Management: Optimizing Government Outcomes

LMI adopts a comprehensive approach to support government investments, ensuring meticulous execution and inclusion of all relevant stakeholders throughout the investment lifecycle.

LMI to Provide Data and Analysis Support to Air Force Sustainment Center (AFSC) Logistics Directorate (LG)

LMI will provide the Air Force (AF) and the Air Force Sustainment Center (AFSC) Logistics Directorate (LG) Office with highly specialized services and analysis to support Readiness-Spares Packages (RSP) and Readiness-Based Sparing (RBS). 

Driving Financial Excellence: Dashboarding for Strategic Insights

Setting up a financial dashboard with LMI has greater benefits than following a trend. Our dashboards move your mission toward efficiency, clarity, and transparency.

LMI Enhancing DLA R&D With AI/ML and FINISIM™ Solution

LMI will apply cutting-edge analytic methods to enhance research and development (R&D) methods and improve lead time estimates for systems and processes, on a newly awarded contract with the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Logistics Operations (J3).

Aspiration to Operation: LMI's Four Key Concepts to Convert Next-Generation, Service-Specific Doctrines into Overwhelming Joint Force Combat Power in the Indo-Pacific

Learn about LMI’s paradigm-shifting vision and how we are already advancing it in partnership with DoD. 

Forge™ Technology Studio: Case Studies

Learn how the Forge™ - LMI's technology studio - builds scalable agile technology to rapidly deliver sophisticated technical solutions to our customers with our case studies.

Trust and UI Design: The Heart of Human-AI Teaming

As AI increasingly integrates into our daily routines, it does not just automate routine tasks; it collaborates with humans for decision-making and creative activities.

Time’s Ticking: Tell Congress to Act Now to Protect Our Homeland, Reauthorize DHS's CWMD Office

Failure to authorize the continuance of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) Office is an invitation to terrorism, a betrayal of our security, and a perilous gamble with our nation's future. With our homeland on high alert for terrorism, the threat of a Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) event is more existential than ever

LMI Secures $604 Million U.S. Border Patrol Task Order

LMI has been awarded a one-year base period and four, one-year options task order for a ceiling value of $604 million to support the U.S. Border Patrol’s Program Management Office Directorate (USBP PMOD), marking the largest contract award in LMI’s more than 60-year history.  

LMI Awarded $98M Small Business Innovation Phase III Contract Through Use of RAPTR™, a Proven and Trusted Modeling, Simulation & Analysis Tool for the Space Force

The U.S. Air Force awarded LMI a 5-year indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III contract with two initial task orders to expand support to the Space Security and Defense Program (SSDP) and the Space Warfighting Analysis Center (SWAC). 

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. 

Forge™ Tech Showcase & Human Capital Analytics Workshop

Thursday, November 2nd, 2023  

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.

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.

LMI’s Merrill Harmison on Health Equity and Accountable Care Organizations

LMI provides strategic support to CMS to facilitate the implementation of the Medicare Shared Savings Program. This consists of overseeing and reviewing applications submitted by prospective Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and conducting ongoing monitoring and compliance checks for ACOs participating in the program. 

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.

Ranger™ Framework: Exploring with Ranger™

Ranger™ is a deconstructed agile framework designed for the development of quick (~45 business day) prototypes and research projects. It best serves efforts around feasibility rather than perfect implementation. 

Dr. Mark Eddings Joins LMI Leadership as Senior Vice President, Space Market

LMI is pleased to announce that Dr. Mark Eddings has joined LMI as senior vice president, space market. He brings 15 years of experience supporting the national security space industry.

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)).

Helping the Best Become Even Better

While LMI strives to help each customer go further, pushing boundaries is literally the mission of one longtime customer, 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. 

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. 

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.

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.

LMI Launches Solution to Provide "So What" to Illuminated Supply Chain Data

LMI today introduced their supply chain risk management solution, LogSmart™ Supply. The solution empowers analysts and program managers to answer “so, what?” from their supply chain risks on demand.

Where Insight Meets Innovation

Possibility starts with people. Our project teams push the boundaries of capability for our customers. We integrate extensive federal expertise with emerging technology experts to rapidly develop creative solutions. 

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 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.

LMI Selected as 2022 U.S. Postal Service Supplier Excellence Award Winner for Second Consecutive Year

Out of 12,400 suppliers, LMI is one of four recipients in the supplier excellence category, which recognizes exceptional quality and on-time delivery performance. LMI was recognized for our contributions to several strategic programs, including implementing updated program and portfolio management planning initiatives into the Postmaster General’s (PMG’s) Strategic Portfolio Planning.

Rajaa Alami

Rajaa is a product manager and biomedical engineer at LMI supporting a U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity contract at Fort Detrick, Maryland.

Matt Peterson

Matt leads LMI's supply chain reengineering and process improvement projects for U.S. government customers. He has 30 years of experience as a government logistics manager and supply chain consultant.

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.

Dr. Joseph Norton

Dr. Joseph Norton is an analytics and IT executive with over a decade of experience in end-to-end solution development, computational sciences, advanced analytics, data management, enterprise architecture, systems engineering, machine learning and applied artificial intelligence (AI), and business strategy.

Applied Research & Partnerships

At the heart of applied research and partnerships, LMI’s applied research portfolio establishes the technological building blocks for future innovations and solutions for our customers. 

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

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

Innovation in VA Health

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.

Thank You for Your Interest in LMI

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Taking Inventory to the Next Level

For 60 years, LMI has been delivering innovative, world-class logistics and supply chain solutions. Our independent research and development efforts have produced tools that have become the standard for supply chain management and logistics analytics.

LMI Fellows

LMI fellows work across the enterprise to match LMI capabilities and strategy with government challenges, differentiating our solutions.

LMI Forge™ Technology Studio: People

Built on an iterative model for rapid problem-solving and an innovation ecosystem of strategic and technical partnerships, the Forge™ empowers employees to create prototypes that push the boundaries of possibility and redefine mission capability.

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. 

How We Innovate

Operating in an innovation ecosystem, we combine market-leading technical resources, strategic partnerships, and agile development capabilities to accelerate mission success. 

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

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

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 datasets for analytics quickly and in a shared, synchronous space.

Interoperability Can Unlock the Future of Healthcare

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

LMI Agrees to Sell For-Profit Subsidiary to Consortium of Investors

The investor group brings a blend of long-duration capital, industry expertise, and technology/data analytics resources to enhance LMI’s support of customers. The remaining nonprofit entity to re-brand as NobleReach Foundation™.

Featured Solutions

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

Innovative Advancements for More Equitable Healthcare

Value-based programs are opening new pathways to equity in healthcare.

Performance Optimization

Unlocking people’s full potential and using readily accessible data and technology to position organizations for long-term sustainability.

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 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.

Digital Twin

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

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.

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.

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.

Operation Warp Speed

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

DARPA LogX

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

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 Katherine Coles

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

Employee Spotlight: Meet Karen Goodson

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

Employee Spotlight: Meet Jordan Hefferan

As a product portfolio owner, Jordan has defined and developed applications offering on-demand supply chain resiliency through LogSmart™ Supply and created customer solutions to understand, measure, and mitigate risks to contested logistics. 

Employee Spotlight: Meet Jared Summers

Jared joined LMI this year from the XVIII Airborne Corps, where he served as its first corps chief technology officer. He is a recognized corporate leader in data, analytics, and technology, and operates as a senior technical advisor and strategic visionary.

LMI Forge™ Technology Studio: Use Cases

Navigate Forge™ solutions addressing specific use cases. 

Forge™ Technology Studio

Leveraging agile methods and human-centered design, the Forge™ empowers us to deliver technology solutions rapidly. 

Videos

Our videos highlight our mission-advancing solutions as well as our values of leadership, mission focus, and innovation in practice in our interactions with the community. 

Publications

LMI invests in research to benefit the public sector. We consider the many facets of the most-pressing issues, evaluate options, then publish our results to help public-sector leaders make well-informed decisions for the best results.

Blog

Engage with LMI thought leaders as they present timely insights, research and innovation, company news, culture stories, and perspectives on a variety of issues and topics.

Health & Civilian

Our subject matter experts and advisors have a broad knowledge base across the spectrum of federal health and civilian agencies to enable excellence in execution that transcends boundaries. 

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. 

News & Events

Explore our press releases and events to find out what’s new at LMI.

Newsroom

Explore our Newsroom to access our press releases, blog, publications, and more.

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 Joins Digital Manufacturing Institute MxD

LMI has joined MxD, one of 14 national institutes sponsored by the federal government to strengthen American manufacturing competitiveness.

LMI and TCS Uncover Climate Risks to F-35, Announce Enhanced Climanomics Platform

Coastal flooding, temperature extremes, and storm damage could significantly disrupt the availability of facilities supporting the F-35 weapon system over the next 30 years, according to a joint analysis by LMI and The Climate Service (TCS).

LMI and Howard University Expand Partnership To Include R&D

LMI announces its enhanced partnership with Howard University, which will bring research funding, mentoring, and client engagements to Howard University and, for LMI, expanded participation in groundbreaking academic research for its clients.

LMI History

With a legacy of solving the government’s most complex challenges and an outcome-driven model to execute above expectation, LMI transforms missions with solutions that define the new speed of possible. 

Corporate Citizenship

From supporting local charities to boots-on-the-ground disaster relief, we come together to make a difference for the missions and communities we serve. 

LMI Quick Thoughts Series

Our experts share their insights on challenges faced by the federal government in these brief videos.

Innovation Space

From Big IoT Data Streaming to our Rapid Analysis and Prototyping Toolkit for Resiliency, LMI's innovation space showcases our ecosystem of solutions.

Press Releases

Explore our press releases to find out what’s new at LMI. 

About LMI

Combining a legacy of federal expertise with an innovation ecosystem, we minimize time to value and accelerate mission success. With an emphasis on agile development and human-centered design, we enable agencies to experience solutions faster and conquer their toughest challenges sooner. 

From “Concept to Capability”: LMI’s Dingman on Defense Innovation

LMI project manager Mike Dingman shares how the Rapid Response Technology Office supports advancement of military technologies. 

Climate Barriers to Achieving Health Equity

The continued rise of average global temperatures is heightening health disparities across the nation. Inconsistencies in urban development and planning hinder health equity efforts, as areas lacking funds for green spaces experience more severe impacts of climate change. 

Addressing Complex Problems

During his 30-year tenure at LMI, Bruce Kaplan has used his expertise in defense logistics and research and development to help LMI and its clients succeed. With a strong commitment to innovation and exceeding customer expectations, Bruce has led efforts to modernize logistics through finding, developing, and pushing pioneering technologies. Learn about Bruce’s role as a logistics strategy and integration fellow and his plans to continue making a positive difference at LMI.