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

COMPASS™: Improving Programmatic Investments and Outcomes

LMI helps the government achieve these desirable outcomes by making informed decisions, prioritizing projects, creating business case analyses, and supporting each investment throughout its lifecycle. 

Cost Transparency – Lost in Uncharted Accounting Data? LMI is the COMPASS™

Through our cost estimation and investment analysis line of business, LMI provides strategic insight that increases the visibility of complex accounting data, turning it into useful and actional data for agencies and their programs, operations, and reporting. 

The Power of Integrating Programing, Planning, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) with Financial Data Analytics

Incorporating financial data analytics into the PPBE process transforms how agencies and programs manage their resources for data-driven decisions, greater efficiency, and increased alignment with strategic goals. 

Agile Program Management and Cost Estimating: A Winning Combination

By incorporating agile principles, organizations can reduce turnaround times for estimates, incorporate estimating results earlier in the acquisition process, reduce risks, and improve overall project outcomes.

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.

Logistics Decision Advantage

The competitive edge that integrates multiple logistics domains to enable complex operations decisions. LMI’s Logistics Decision Advantage (LDA) creates strategic advantage with trusted data insight for faster, more intelligent action.

LMI to Support Veteran Suicide Prevention with New VA Contract

LMI has been selected to provide suicide prevention program support for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Mental Health (OMH) and Office of Suicide Prevention (OSP).

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.

Automating Financial Responsibilities

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

Managing Planning Assumptions

Project planning always requires addressing uncertainty. When confronted with multiple possible futures, planners must make assumptions about which reality is most likely to be true.

Workforce Evolution in the Age of AI

Read about our perspectives on how leaders can plan for, acquire, develop, retain, and transition talent as the workforce evolves in the age of AI.

CMS Selects LMI to Support ACO Medicare Shared Savings Program

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has selected LMI to provide strategic development and implementation support for the Medicare Shared Savings Program. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

Jane McTigue

Jane McTigue is a principal in logistics strategy and integration at LMI. In her role, Jane leads diverse, multi-disciplined teams to drive growth to the support corporate strategy for Army programs. 

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. 

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.

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. 

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.

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). 

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.

Thomas McConnell

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

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.

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. 

Enterprise Agility

Employing an Agile mindset to accelerate organizational transformation, strengthen programs, and meet dynamic business needs. 

Occupational Safety & Health

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

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.

Seven Key Steps to Creating an Accessible Workplace

In a globally aging population, with greater demands for digitization and connectivity, accessibility has never been more critical to consider and integrate in our daily work.

‘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?

LMI Selected to Support the Food and Drug Administration Business Operations, Optimization, and Modernization BPA

LMI will support the FDA through the BOOM BPA, in optimizing and modernizing its business operations to align with strategic priorities and increase the effectiveness of FDA organizations.

Christine Cocrane

Christine (Chrissy) leads a diverse practice of human, programmatic, scientific, and technological management consulting professionals. She is responsible for driving innovative and digitally enabled capabilities in the areas of business modernization, organizational transformation, workforce evolution and strategic analytics and insights, all to support a broad federal mission space.

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.

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. 

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. 

Business & Digital Transformation

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

Performance Optimization

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

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 Partners with the Inclusion Channel

The LMI–Inclusion Channel partnership delivers an end-to-end DEIA training solution.

Technology Assessment Methodology and Tools for Federal Agencies

LMI’s Dawson Oslund discusses technology assessment methodology and tools for federal agency solutions.

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 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.

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.

LMI Quick Thoughts Series

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.