Booz Allen opens flagship center for innovation in Washington, DC

Booz Allen, a administration and know-how consultancy specializing in the general public sector, has opened The Helix Middle for Innovation – a collaborative house that showcases cutting-edge applied sciences in protection, nationwide safety, and local weather resilience.

The consulting agency yesterday held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the brand new innovation middle, which is positioned at Booz Allen’s 901 fifteenth Avenue facility in Washington, DC.

The 9,422-square-foot house is house to greater than 30 simulations, product and functionality demonstrations, hands-on activations, and immersive environments.

“The Helix is purposefully designed to discover the artwork of the doable whereas demystifying how rising applied sciences might be utilized to the U.S. authorities’s present and future challenges,” mentioned Melissa Lazarofsky, director of The Helix. “By way of The Helix, we’re hoping to drag again the curtain for our purchasers, and make know-how extra accessible, explainable, and reachable.”

The middle consists of sights corresponding to an AI Adoption Studio that makes use of gamified interplay to indicate how AI can “speed up missions”; a Storytelling Rotunda with a 220-degree, floor-to-ceiling display that immerses views in use circumstances throughout digital twins, VR, and 5G; and rotating demonstrations, together with a simulated particular mission that includes a robotic quadruped in an interactive search-and-locate train.

“The world is being reworked by the rise of applied sciences like synthetic intelligence (AI), cyber, 5G, quantum, edge computing, and so many extra,” mentioned Susan Penfield, chief know-how officer. “The Helix is the bodily manifestation of our firm’s VoLT (velocity, management, know-how) progress technique – leveraging rising know-how to hurry solutioning in opposition to our purchasers’ most difficult mission wants.”

Booz Allen’s different tech innovation milestones this yr embody launching HELworks, an organization specializing in high-energy laser weapons methods, and Booz Allen Ventures, a $100-million enterprise capital arm specializing in funding in industrial applied sciences for federal purchasers.