How Value-Based Care Can Improve for Patients, Providers and Payers Post COVID-19

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

A Better Path to Health Equity: LMI’s Dual Approach

Our dual approach works with communities and stakeholders to improve health equity. LMI visits communities to understand the root causes of disparities, gather facts, and prioritize and cocreate solutions (bottom up).

Chris Ayers

Chris Ayers serves as LMI’s practice area lead for acquisition. In his role, he helps structure resources, customer-focused solution development, and acquisition efforts to align with strategic priorities. 

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. 

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.

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. 

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.

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.

Sealift: The Foundation of U.S. Military Power Projection

As resilience and self-defense become exponentially more important in the highly lethal military operating environments of tomorrow, American sea power is the difference maker, in peace or conflict.

Enabling Disaster Preparedness in Global Health

Nations and philanthropic organizations struggle to deal with a growing number of climatologically driven disasters. Transportation and distribution of critically needed supplies has become more of a challenge as many areas deal with aging infrastructure and roads that only exacerbate the problems when disaster strikes. Governments and institutions need predictive analysis to get ahead of the problem.

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. 

LMI to Continue Strategy, Strategic Engagement, Concepts, and Wargames Support for USTRANSCOM

The United States Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) Strategic Plans, Policy, and Logistics Directorate has selected LMI to continue supporting the Strategy, Strategic Engagement, Concepts, and Wargames (SSECW) program.

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.

Redefining Business Optimization in the COVID Era

In a world beset by pandemic and climate risks, resiliency has become a defining virtue of business operations.   

LMI Experts Champion Digital Engineering for Defense Sustainment

In an op-ed for C4ISRNET, Ben Kassel and Bruce Kaplan call for more emphasis on model-based definition across the DoD enterprise. 

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.

Employee Spotlight: Meet Jamechia D. Hoyle

LMI has by far been my favorite place to work. It is an amazing feeling to show up in the work environment as your “whole self.” I feel valued and a part of a culture that is not only committed to the mission, but also committed to the workforce. 

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.

COVID-19 and Supply Chain Resilience: What’s Next?

LMI hosted the Potomac Officers Club event, Supply Chain Resilience and COVID-19: What’s Next? on June 11, 2020. Government leaders and logistics experts discussed the pre-COVID-19 supply chain, effects from COVID-19, and investment areas for resilience. This paper summarizes poll data collected from audience members as well as insights from the panel.

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 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 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.

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 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 Selected to Support the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy

LMI will support the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy by furnishing strategic planning, analysis, programming, and functional energy expertise. This award represents LMI’s first contract with this organization since the operational energy and installation energy offices and roles were combined.

LMI to Support DARPA's Strategic Technology Office

LMI and partners will develop a testing and evaluation framework for DARPA’s LogX R&D prototype program. 

GAO High-Risk Series: Supply Chain Management

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report highlighting the successful efforts of federal government agencies to address high-risk areas and improve programs.

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.

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. 

Zaki Saleh

Zaki Saleh leads LMI’s health & civilian market, where he is responsible for profit and loss management and business growth, overseeing project delivery, execution, and overall customer satisfaction as well as the business development function.

Thomas McConnell

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

Stuart Jones

Stu Jones leads LMI’s Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) submarket and oversees the delivery and execution of programs, projects, and tasks as well as strategic growth. He provides cross-service line support for policy development, planning, resource management, and program evaluation.

Scott Ritzel

Scott, a retired Air Force colonel with over 30 years of logistics experience, served in the maintenance career field supporting a diverse portfolio, including fighters, bombers, rotary wing, conventional and nuclear munitions, and ground-based space systems.

Rob Kline

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

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.

Randal Dragon

Randal leads LMI’s defense market business development team’s strategic planning activities, including identifying growth targets and solution and core offering development.

We Need to Talk About Employee Burnout in the Public Sector

Burnout is costly for everyone involved. Here’s how the public sector can minimize the impacts and create an environment that fosters productivity through employee wellbeing.

Natalie Lieberman

Natalie leads LMI’s document production team of technical editors, proofreaders, desktop publishers, and 508 remediation specialists.

Michael Dudley

Mike Dudley came to LMI from the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA), where he served as civilian director of the Stockton, California, office. In this role, he supervised over 270 civilian and military personnel with responsibility for managing 10,300 contracts valued at $23 billion.

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.

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.

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.

Kerry McCarthy

Kerry has enhanced supply chain resilience for a diverse range of organizations across the defense, health, civilian, intelligence, and private sectors for nearly 20 years. As a fellow at LMI, he leverages his engineering background and supply chain expertise to develop and implement innovative cross-functional solutions, oversee supply chain resilience projects, and foster collaboration with academia, industry, and government.

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.

Joseph Niehaus

Joe leads a diverse organization of logistics consultants developing and delivering advanced logistics solutions in acquisition and sustainment; infrastructure, energy, and environment; and supply chain management. He and his organization focus on helping LMI’s customers build supply chain resilience and deliver innovative supply chain solutions across the defense, civilian agencies, public health, and national security markets with increasing agility for accelerated decision-making at the pace of need.

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 Corinne Tochman

"Innovation is always necessary to serve the customer because change is the only constant in life."

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.

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.

Enterprise Agility

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

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.

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.

Occupational Safety & Health

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

Contract Vehicles

Operating at the new speed of possible, LMI accelerates the pace of progress, enabling our customers to thrive while adapting to modern mission needs.

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 Mitigation and Resilience

LMI’s supply and demand side risk optimization tools enable us to stress-test your environment to identify meaningful and cost-effective strategies to reduce your risk exposure. 

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. 

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?

Serving the Underserved Through Better Data and Analysis

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

Reducing Supply Chain Vulnerabilities Using A Whole of Nations Approach

International collaboration with allies is needed to significantly increase supply chain resiliency.

Peak Policy and Next Generation (PNG™) Inventory Models

LMI’s acclaimed tool for managing infrequent demand or frequent highly variable demand within your inventory.

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.

Interoperability Can Unlock the Future of Healthcare

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

Value-Based Care: Efficient, Effective, and Transparent

Value-based care improves the fee-for-service model by controlling rising costs and offering greater price transparency for patients.

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.

Planning for Vaccine Distribution in 6 Key Areas

COVID-19 has made clear that preparing for pandemics is a critical public health challenge. Here’s what leaders can do now to improve vaccination efforts. 

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.

LogSmart™ Supply

LogSmart™ Supply empowers decision makers to boost supply chain resiliency by providing the most complete insights into the risks and opportunities present in the supply chains you depend on. 

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.

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.

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.

Aircraft Sustainability Model (ASM®) Sparing Model

The Aircraft Sustainability Model (ASM®) sparing model is a state-of-the-art method for developing spares requirements to support high-technology systems. Over the last 30 years, the ASM® sparing model's advanced algorithms and user interfaces have made it an international leader in computing spares requirements.

Featured Solutions

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

Preparing for the Next Pandemic With DPA Title III 

Information-sharing and additional resources will help bolster what we learned from the DPA during the current pandemic.

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.

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.

Initial Outfitting Support to Military Health Facilities

LMI helps Ireland Army Health Clinic at Fort Knox, KY, open its doors.

Innovative Advancements for More Equitable Healthcare

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

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. 

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. 

Performance Optimization

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

Technology Integration Partner

LMI combines hands-on expertise with existing and emerging technologies, our deep understanding of logistics processes and operations, and over 60 years of experience and partnership with the government for totally integrated technical solutions.

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 Partners with the Inclusion Channel

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

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.

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.

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.

Turning Supply Chain Risks into Decisive Action

LogSmart™ Supply offers the industry's most complete insight into the impacts of supply chain risks and mitigation strategies. Turn your risk data into decisive action. 
 

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.

Mission Engineering

Integrating modeling and simulation, supply chain engineering, wargaming, and more, LMI harnesses more than 60 years of cutting-edge innovation and experience to enhance capabilities and technologies in support of our customers’ most challenging mission requirements. 

LMI Extends Support to OSD in Electronic Warfare, Air Platforms and Weapons, and International Cooperation

LMI will continue to support the Office of the Secretary of Defense address critical acquisition challenges through a five-year contract valued at over $16 million.

Government Property Management

The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the importance of meticulous government property management. 

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.

Logistics Decision Dominance

Now is the time to turn significant attention and resources to maintaining our logistics advantage.

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.

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.

Supply Chain Resilience Solutions

LMI’s public-sector experts in logistics bring over 60 years of experience helping organizations mitigate supply chain risks. Our in-depth understanding of supply chain and government operations combine to provide effective, practical solutions for reducing and managing risk and increasing resiliency. 

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. 

Wearable Sensors & Medical Devices

LMI develops medical device and wearable sensors solutions to identify and acquire essential technologies to combat threats from diseases such as COVID-19. 

Telehealth

LMI experts identify best practices, develop telehealth policies and operations, and ensure improved access to care, reduce costs, and enhance outcomes. 

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 Scot Stitely

Scot joined LMI when it acquired Suntiva in 2021. He and his team are responsible for LMI’s strategic planning activities such as identifying growth targets and offering development strategies for customers in the defense and space markets.  

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: 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. 

LMI Forge™ Technology Studio: Use Cases

Navigate Forge™ solutions addressing specific use cases. 

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.

Employee Spotlight: Meet Randy Dragon

Prior to joining LMI in 2019, Randy Dragon acted in executive leadership and management positions in the United States Army, joint and multinational forces, and the defense industry. Before entering the civilian sector, Randy served over 30 years in the Army, entering active duty in 1980 after being commissioned in the infantry through the Reserve Officers' Training Corps program at James Madison University. 

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. 

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. 

Homeland Security

Delivering award-winning acquisition, modeling, financial management, scientific, and logistics management support to the Department of Homeland Security. 

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 Expand Support of the Marine Corps Logistics Command

LMI will continue to provide strategic support to the United States Marine Corps Logistics Command with a new, one-year award. This will greatly aid the Marine Corps with inventory management using the ASM® Sparing Model, proprietary software and capabilities, and budget stratification tools.

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 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 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 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 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 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. 

LMI Acquires Suntiva, Expands Federal Health and Defense Offerings 

The acquisition of Suntiva expanded LMI’s digital and workforce solution offerings while furnishing new customer access in public health and defense, particularly the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Agriculture, the Defense Information Systems Agency, and the U.S. Army.

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.

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.

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.

Three Ways ARPA-H Can Succeed as a New and Agile Organization

The president’s budget calls for a DARPA-like organization for discovering the most innovative and effective treatments for major diseases.

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.

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. 

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.

Changes to Construction Permits for Projects near Bodies of Water

If you have construction projects taking place near or in any bodies of water, you urgently need to evaluate your project plan. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced reauthorization of the Nationwide Permits (NWPs), which could impact construction projects in progress or soon to be underway.