Competition

Competitors describe Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation's market in their own filings and calls. These verified passages and visual pages show where their strategies meet, using source documents preserved in Sources.

Leidos Holdings, Inc. (LDOS)

The largest US federal IT and technical-services contractor; competes with Booz Allen across national-security digital, cyber and AI-enabled mission work, and names Booz Allen as a principal competitor.

Leidos's 10-K lists Booz Allen among its principal competitors and flags AI and Federal Acquisition Regulation reform as widening the field.

Our principal competitors currently include the following companies: Accenture Federal Services LLC, Amentum Services Inc., KBR, Inc., BAE Systems, Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., CACI International Inc., Deloitte, General Dynamics Corporation, GovCIO, IBM, KBR Inc., L3Harris Technologies, Inc., Lockheed Martin Corporation, ManTech, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Optum, Parsons Corporation, Peraton Inc., RTX Corporation and SAIC. […] Technological advances, including artificial intelligence, autonomy and robotics, changing customer requirements, as well as the ongoing significant reform of the Federal Acquisition Regulation ("FAR") are enabling expanded competition from both traditional and nontraditional competitors.

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CEO sizes the intelligence-community budget trajectory and frames AI as a tailwind, not a threat, in the digital/mission market Booz Allen also serves.

Tom Bell — Chief Executive Officer: the intelligence community budgets have grown 4% to 5% annually since 2022, and we see that continuing. In the classified budgets, you see a lot of money going into the digital infrastructure part of the ecosystem for defense and intelligence. That's why AI isn't a disruptor for us, it's a propellant to our progress in this business.

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CEO details how DOGE-driven government cost-cutting shows up operationally — stop-work orders, terminations and pricing reviews — across the federal-services market.

Thomas A. Bell — Chief Executive Officer: we have been closely monitoring all disruptions related to DOGE and DOGE-related contracts over the past six months. This includes stop work orders, terminations, descopes, and what we refer to as DOGE-inspired pricing reviews.

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CACI International Inc (CACI)

A core defense and intelligence technology provider overlapping Booz Allen in cyber, mission IT and analytics for national-security customers.

CACI's 10-K characterises its market as fragmented with no dominant player, and states an intent to gain share both organically and through acquisitions — the same addressable pool Booz Allen pursues.

We know of no single competitor that is dominant in our fields of technology. We have a relatively small share of the addressable market for our Expertise and Technology and intend to achieve growth and increase market share both organically and through strategic acquisitions.

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CEO says GSA/DOGE efficiency actions hit the federal-civilian market hard but not CACI, which deliberately pivoted its portfolio toward defense and intelligence in 2019 — a pointed contrast with peers still exposed to civilian budgets.

John S. Mengucci — President and Chief Executive Officer: I think you've seen a lot of the cost efficiency, those GSA actions really hitting the federal civilian area hard. But as the CEO of a publicly traded company who moved away from that market a number of years back, it really doesn't have any impact.

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CEO on competitor behaviour under budget pressure, implying rivals are turning more price-aggressive, with a rise in contract protests.

John Mengucci — President and Chief Executive Officer: if we've ever lost on price, it's not because we're in a price shootout because we gave up that part of the ecosystem about 7 to 8 years back. But I would imagine people are going to do whatever they need to do to continue to win business. I mean, we've seen a little uptick in the number of protests, which are out there.

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Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)

A pure-play technology-services provider to the US government; among Booz Allen's closest business-model peers in systems integration, digital engineering and mission IT.

CFO argues undifferentiated, labour-based government services are the most exposed to recompetes and efficiency pressure — a lens on where staff-heavy federal work is vulnerable.

Prabu Natarajan — Chief Financial Officer: there are parts of the market where you're focused on pure labor-based services, without differentiation, in sort of either enterprise IT or mission IT that is hard to differentiate you are vulnerable for recompetes. […] I think it would be a crisis that's wasted by industry if we don't step up and change the way we go to market.

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CFO on commercial and non-traditional entrants pushing into government work, and why 'mission integration' is the moat incumbents such as SAIC and Booz Allen rely on.

Prabu Natarajan — Chief Financial Officer: Clearly, there we are seeing new entrants in the market, nontraditional, with more commercial orientation to them. […] I think we believe sincerely that the offerings from commercial vendors still will require mission integration at its core to be able to operate inside of the government environment. So we welcome the competition in the industrial base.

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SAIC's 10-K describes a government-services market where competition has intensified, sole-source awards are fewer and price and affordability increasingly decide awards.

Competition within the government services industry has intensified, which has led to fewer sole-source awards and an increased emphasis on cost competitiveness and affordability.

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Parsons Corporation (PSN)

Its Federal Solutions segment competes with Booz Allen across cyber, intelligence, missile defence and space; Parsons names Booz Allen first in its federal peer group.

Parsons' 10-K names Booz Allen first in its Federal Solutions peer group of US federal systems integrators.

Our peer group in Federal Solutions are U.S. federal systems integrators and service providers such as Booz Allen Hamilton, CACI International Inc, Leidos Holdings, Inc., and Science Applications International Corporation.

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Parsons reports its contract win rates, including a 99.6% re-compete win rate in fiscal 2025 — a benchmark for incumbent retention on federal work.

We achieved an overall win rate of 61% in fiscal 2025 […] which includes strong re-compete win rates of 99.6% in fiscal 2025 giving us long-term certainty on key contracts.

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Parsons' Federal Solutions capability list overlaps Booz Allen's national-security portfolio across cyber, intelligence, missile defence, electronic warfare and space.

We provide critical technologies, including cyber; integrated air and missile defense; intelligence; aviation modernization; electronic warfare; space ground systems, cislunar, A-PNT, and classified sensors; geospatial intelligence; signals intelligence; environmental remediation; border security and counter-drug, critical infrastructure protection; counter unmanned air systems; biometrics; and bio surveillance.

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ICF International, Inc. (ICFI)

A federal and commercial consulting firm competing with Booz Allen on civilian-agency advisory, digital and AI work; ICF names Booz Allen as a principal competitor.

ICF's 10-K lists Booz Allen Hamilton among its principal competitors in the federal-consulting market.

Some of our principal competitors include: Abt Global; Accenture; AECOM Technology Corporation; Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation; CACI International Inc.; CLEAResult; Deloitte LLP; General Dynamics, Inc.; Guidehouse; Leidos Holdings, Inc.; PA Consulting Group; Science Applications International Corporation; Research Triangle Institute, International; Tetra Tech Inc.; and Westat, Inc.

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CEO quantifies the federal-demand contraction ICF absorbed as the administration cut spending — a read on the civilian-agency exposure Booz Allen also carries.

John Wasson — Chief Executive Officer: our revenues from federal government clients, which declined 9.8% sequentially, representing a 25.2% reduction from last year's second quarter.

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Maximus, Inc. (MMS)

A government health and citizen-services provider overlapping Booz Allen on federal digital modernization and AI-enabled services; Maximus names Booz Allen as a federal competitor.

Maximus's 10-K names Booz Allen among its primary US Federal Services competitors.

Our primary competitors in the U.S. Federal Services Segment are General Dynamics Information Technology, Deloitte, Leidos, IBM, Accenture, Booz Allen Hamilton, and other federal contractors.

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CEO positions Maximus's AI 'Total Experience Management' platform for a multibillion-dollar government market — the AI-for-government demand Booz Allen also targets.

Bruce L. Caswell — President and Chief Executive Officer: one representative of a federal agency acknowledged TXM as the most sophisticated deployment of AI in a contact center environment that they had seen to date. We continue to invest in TXM as we address this multibillion-dollar government market.