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Data Entrepreneurship Challenge: Past Challenges

2023-24 Data Entrepreneurship Challenge: FAQs

Get answers to frequently asked questions about the challenge.

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.

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.

Corrosion Research in DoD

According to Department of Defense Instruction (DoDI) 3110.05, it is DoD policy that all mission essential systems and equipment meet the National Military Strategy and be maintained for optimum mission capable status. 

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. 

Introducing the NASA Artifact Program and the Artemis I Moon Tree Project

This program facilitates the transfer of artifacts to educational and nonprofit organizations, engaging the public with NASA's legacy. 

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.  

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).

Greatest Challenges for Making Effective Policy?

Through the LMI Way of Policy, LMI has identified several key challenges at each stage of the policy life cycle to help guide organizations through these key issues, while avoiding predictable pitfalls along the way. 

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.

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. 

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.

The Evolving National Security Landscape

The U.S. national security establishment has produced several documents outlining the mounting risks from global climate change and environmental degradation. 

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.

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. 

OpenPolicy™: Knowledge Drives the Search

LMI’s OpenPolicy™ semantic search service is a fantastically powerful way to research prose documents.

Emerging Issues and Opportunities of the Genomic Data Revolution

Now is the time to get your organization ready for the genomic data revolution. From government agencies to the private sector, from healthcare to technology, and everything in between, all organizations need to be prepared for upcoming challenges and opportunities.

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. 

Skills-Based Analytics Transform Hiring and Talent Management

As an internal research and development project, LMI created the Human Capital Data Analytics platform to tackle the skills-forward nature of today’s hiring, retention, and resource allocation challenges. 

Healthcare Compliance

LMI’s compliance approach centers on reducing programmatic risks while minimizing participants’ burden through data analytics and proactive engagement and education.

Data Entrepreneurship Challenge: FAQs

Get answers to frequently asked questions about the challenge.

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.

Ryan Stem

Ryan Stem is an accomplished project manager with 12 years of professional experience, primarily in the IT industry.

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 Expand Support to U.S. Army Through STEPSS Contract

LMI has been selected to support the U.S. Army’s Combat Capabilities Development Command Chemical Biological Center (DEVCOM CBC). This 10-year, potential $869 million Scientific, Technical, Engineering and Program Support Services (STEPSS) multiple-award task order contract will allow LMI to continue helping prepare the U.S. Army to detect and respond to chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) threats. 

Golden Bear 3: Mike Dingman on Fostering Innovation

In this interview, Mike details Capability Prototype’s (formerly the Rapid Reaction Technology Office) for the DoD Golden Bear 3 meeting for fostering innovation.

LMI to Support Policy Management and Reporting for DoD Security Cooperation

LMI will assist the Department of Defense (DoD) in streamlining policy development and reporting for its security cooperation activities in support of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), with a total potential contract value of approximately $5 million.

Using AI To Improve Hazard Response

AI/ML acts as a force multiplier, amplifying the quality of results fed into the decision-making process, ultimately saving valuable time. 

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. 

Sergio Posadas

Serg leads delivery of advanced analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. He joined LMI as part of the acquisition of Clockwork Solutions in 2019, having led data science services there since 2009.

Scott Recinos

Scott Recinos, senior vice president of LMI’s homeland security market, uncovers customers’ current and emerging needs, acquires new business, manages profit and loss, fosters customer and partnership relationships, and champions LMI’s strategic plan, vision, and goals.

Rob Kline

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

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.

Matt Granger

Matt Granger leads solutions architecture for LMI’s Digital Services service line, specializing in ServiceNow and enterprise applications.

Kristen Cheman

As senior vice president of the intelligence market, Kristen combines subject matter expertise and leading-edge technologies to bring the best ideas and digitally enabled services to our customers.

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.

Keith Rodgers

Keith brings nearly two decades of experience in leveraging innovative techniques to assess organizational performance and challenges.

Joshua Wilson

Josh is the president of markets, growth, and technology at LMI. In this role, he has direct oversight over LMI’s entire customer portfolio and leads LMI’s business growth function, which includes LMI’s proposal center, business development strategies, capture management, and sales engineering teams.

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.

Developing in an Accelerated Future

Various technical practices, like containerization and microservices, demonstrate the benefits of abstraction. The upcoming technological landscape will increase the adoption of these practices and require organizations to embrace abstraction as part of their agile mindset. 

TBM Council Honors LMI for Strategic Planning

The strategic planning award recognizes organizations that align financial plans with business priorities and adjust plans to reflect shifting priorities, reduce risk, and capitalize on market opportunities.

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. 

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 Joe Norton

As chief technology officer, Joe nurtures innovation through organizational culture and structure while allowing LMI to deliver scalable, repeatable, and robust solutions to our customers.

Employee Spotlight: Meet Corinne Tochman

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

Toward a Comprehensive and Robust Synthetic Data Policy

This workshop sought to broaden the conversation toward a comprehensive synthetic data policy that would advance, empower, and protect our government as synthetic data is increasingly used.

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

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

LMI Homeland Security Solutions

From digital transformation to strategic visualization, LMI is innovating homeland security solutions at the pace of need.

Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction

LMI helps customers adopt the latest capabilities and methodologies to advance the CWMD and chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) defense missions.

Civilian

Combining a legacy of federal expertise with an innovation ecosystem, we minimize time to value and accelerate mission success.

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.

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.

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. 

Serving the Underserved Through Better Data and Analysis

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

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.

Technical DNA

Our Technical DNA (tDNA™) approach combines digital engineering, lifecycle management, supply chain risk management, and intellectual property management to ensure that the modern sustainer has the right data at the right time at the right price. 

Interoperability Can Unlock the Future of Healthcare

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

LMI-Curated manifestDB Data

LMI-curated manifestDB data has been structured and stored to ensure maximum utility and is optimized to leverage the Beacon™ data management and analytics platform. 

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.

LMI Awarded the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) Data Readiness Artificial Intelligence Development (DRAID) Program Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA)

LMI will provide a broad spectrum of data management and analytic services for the Department of Defense (DoD) Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) with the goal of accelerating artificial intelligence (AI) scaling across the department.

LMI Welcomes New Chief Technology Officers

LMI announced today the addition of three chief technology officers—Jared Summers, Elias Peroulas, and Chris Hagner—and the promotion of Dr. Joseph Norton to senior vice president, chief technology officer.

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.

LMI Expands Presence in Space Industry by Acquiring Synaptech

LMI has acquired Synaptech, a technical solutions provider with a primary focus on creating cutting-edge digital engineering, modeling, and simulation software within the national security and space industries. LMI’s expertise in logistics and deep analytics, paired with its ability to conduct strategic independent research and development investments, will complement Synaptech’s strengths and vehicle access within the Department of Defense’s Space Force, making a transformational impact in LMI’s space business.

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™.

Demystifying ChatGPT for Government Leaders

Technologies work best when used as human-in-the-loop capabilities, with the model functioning as an accelerator.

Project Spotlight: DoD SMART Scholarship-for-Service Program

The SMART team successfully distributed more than $170 million with 100% on-time payments to scholars and universities over the last four years.

Jonathan Baba Joins LMI Leadership Team as Senior Vice President, Defense Market 

Tysons, Va.— LMI is pleased to announce that Jonathan (Jon) Baba has joined LMI as senior vice president, defense market. He brings over 20 years of public-sector experience supporting the Department of Defense (DoD) and defense industry. 

Featured Solutions

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

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.

Implementing AI in Government

Artificial intelligence and machine learning systems support federal missions from national security to citizen services.  Keith Rodgers outlines what agencies should keep in mind when considering implementation of AI tools and how to optimize these technologies.

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.

Integrating IoT and Sensors To Improve Infrastructure Management Systems

When paired with AI/ML, the data provided by IoT devices and sensors offer insights on the status and condition of assets while enhancing utility, efficiency, and resiliency. Our experts weigh in on what is important to consider when implementing these technologies to improve infrastructure management.

Innovative Advancements for More Equitable Healthcare

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

Sustainability

LMI adapts industry-leading approaches to customers’ unique mission needs. We support energy, sustainability, and climate resilience efforts with customizable analysis and reporting tools. 

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.

Wargaming

LMI’s highly qualified wargaming expertise and extensive knowledge of the future operating environment furnishes the subject matter expertise for planning, executing, and after-action support of joint, combatant command, service, and other wargames. 

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. 

Infrastructure Resilience

LMI helps federal agencies strengthen infrastructure resiliency with data-driven strategies that respect natural resources and support sustainability. 

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 Participates in Viz for Social Good Challenge for India Water Portal

Members of LMI’s Data Visualization community of practice volunteered their time to participate in the Viz for Social Good Challenge.

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 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.

Generative AI Renaissance

It is clear generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is historic when some of the biggest innovators and technologists of our generation write an open letter asking to pause GenAI experimentation.

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.

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.

Assessing & Anticipating Rapidly Evolving Capabilities

LMI tailors data-driven approaches to select, develop, and mature capabilities with simultaneous and integrated analytical, simulation, prototyping, demonstration, and transition activities. Our customers engage with feedback throughout the process for continuous improvements. 

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. 
 

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’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.

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.

LMI Symposium Brings Together Customers Tackling Complex Problems

Programs are finding innovative ways to streamline their acquisition and systems engineering strategies to compress schedules.

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 Workshop Examines Data Ethics for Government

How can organizations ensure artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) techniques are free from human biases? 

LMI Workshop Highlights Data-Driven Resiliency

"Analytics for Resilience: Infrastructure, Supply Chain, and Climate" attracted a cross-section of federal managers. 

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. 

Contested Logistics Decision Support

Arm decision-makers with trusted data for faster, intelligent action. 

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 Marshall Smith

Leveraging his over 25 years of predictive analytics experience, Marshall’s focus includes developing innovative solutions for customers and offering his expertise to grow LMI’s predictive analytics capabilities. 

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. 

RAPTR™

The Rapid Analysis and Prototyping Toolkit for Resiliency (RAPTR™) provides an extensible, scalable architecture for modeling, simulation, analysis, and visualization for the space warfighting domain as well as cross-domain integration. 

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. 

Space

LMI’s space market provides technical solutions as a trusted partner in the national security space industry. 

Internet of Things (IoT)

LMI helps customers make better risk management decisions through IoT technologies and toolkits using near-real-time analytical data. 

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. 

Artificial Intelligence

Our approach to applied AI includes MLOps, the practice of integrating machine learning models into production environments in a streamlined and scalable way. 

Applied Artificial Intelligence (AI)

LMI's applied AI solutions equip leaders with tools, processes, and skills to derive insights from big data, business operations and technology infrastructure. 

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 Continue Support of DLA R&D Efforts

LMI will continue supporting the Defense Logistics Agency by providing cutting-edge innovations to improve its technology and business processes. LMI will furnish support in the areas of planning, procurement, product quality, technical data, and data management.

LMI to Continue Army Enterprise Systems Integration Program Support

LMI will continue to provide program management, business transformation, technical, and professional advisory services to the Project Manager, Army Data and Analytics Platforms (PM ARDAP), with a new three-year, $211 million award. LMI’s capabilities will enable the Army to modernize business operations and implement integrated management systems to transform Army enterprise resource planning and data systems.

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 Awarded JAIC Artificial Intelligence Center BPA

LMI has been selected as a Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) Test & Evaluation (T&E) Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) awardee.

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 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 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. 

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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. 

NASA Selects SMD IDEA Program Team Members for Group Achievement Award

NASA has recognized LMI’s Dr. Kim Barnette, Ruth Starr, Lakiesha Cooper, Ilana White, Tracy Urman, Tiffany Kelly, and Dr. Jade Singleton—all members of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate’s (SMD) Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) Program team—with the Group Achievement Award (GAA).

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.

An Agile Framework for Research and Development

LMI developed an agile framework for research and development that encourages the creation of rapid prototypes based on Innovation and crowdsourced ideas. 

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?

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.