BAH News & Events

Booz Allen Hamilton announced that its corporate venture capital arm, Booz Allen Ventures, has made a strategic investment in O-RAN Development Company, a U.S.-based technology company specializing in AI-native Open RAN solutions for 5G and emerging 6G networks. The investment-part of ODC's Series A funding round-will help accelerate the development of NextG wireless technologies that power mission-critical communications and help shape tomorrow's 6G infrastructure in step with emerging U.S. priorities. This investment advances more adaptive communications capabilities. It also supports the development of Artificial Intelligence Radio Access Network technologies that embed AI directly into the network to improve mission outcomes while extending the capabilities of today's 5G infrastructure and laying the foundation for 6G. Leveraging software-defined wireless networks, edge computing, and AI-enabled technologies, data can be processed closer to where missions occur-enabling faster decision making, improved situational awareness, and more resilient network operations at the edge. This work builds on Booz Allen's broader NextG industry collaborations through initiatives such as the AI Wireless Innovation Network, which advances AI-native wireless technologies and accelerates their transition into operational environments. Through AI-WIN, Booz Allen and ODC are working alongside partners, also a co-investor in this round, to develop and deploy NextG capabilities that integrate AI directly into wireless network architectures.

Booz Allen Hamilton announced it has been selected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's, NOAA, National Weather Service, NWS, to build a first-of-its-kind cloud-based data platform that will power the nation's weather forecasting tools and services. The work supports a new NWS initiative, the Central Integrated Real-Time Repository for Unified Services, CIRRUS, aimed at transforming how weather data is processed, analyzed, and delivered by using cloud technology, advanced data engineering, and AI.

Booz Allen announced that its corporate venture capital arm, Booz Allen Ventures, has made a strategic investment in Hadean, a UK-based technology company specializing in digital wargaming and command & control capabilities, powered by AI. This marks the company's first international Ventures investment and enables Hadean-one of the UK's most successful and fastest-growing startups-to develop a U.S. presence to further support U.S., NATO, and allied missions. The bridge-round investment builds on an existing two-year partnership with Hadean and Booz Allen.