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Q: What types of products and services does
Deloitte offer to military and other government
customers?
A: Deloitte focuses almost exclusively on
delivering professional services to our
clients, and today is the largest private professional
services organization in the world.
Deloitte entered the federal consulting
market about six years ago and significantly
accelerated our commitment to the market
through key acquisitions over the past two
years. So while still relatively young in the
federal and defense market, Deloitte already
ranks in the top 20 of most government
contractor lists. Deloitte’s professional services
provide the government with a virtually
unmatched breadth of capabilities ranging
from strategy, operations, technology, human
capital, business and technology risk, and
financial advisory services. Deloitte strives
to be the standard of excellence and the
first choice of our clients to assist with their
most complex, strategic challenges across
our capability areas.
Q: What different benefits does your company
provide its customers in comparison
with other companies in your field?
A: The breadth of Deloitte’s capabilities combined
with tight integration with Deloitte’s
commercial practices distinguishes us in the
market. The ability to leverage the knowledge,
skills and experiences of our commercial
practices, in addition to our government past
performances and prior military experience
of many of our professionals, allows Deloitte
to provide services and solutions to agencies
in support of achieving their strategic goals.
In Deloitte’s federal technology practice, we
help agencies in their efforts to address critical
information and technology challenges,
providing services related to data center consolidation,
data analytics, virtualization and
mobile applications, to name a few.
Q: What are some of the most significant
programs your company is currently working
on with the military?
A: Deloitte’s DoD practice serves a broad
range of clients including each military
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service, many OSD agencies and activities,
as well as some of the COCOMs. While our
practice is primarily supporting our clients
in CONUS, we do have projects OCONUS.
Deloitte’s culture and values create an environment
where our professionals are constantly
challenging themselves to identify
new or additional ways to help our clients
achieve their objectives.
Some of Deloitte’s current programs
include:
• Assisting a client with an analysis of
a large technology outsourcing situation
where Deloitte helped identify
very large savings for the client.
• Leveraging the combination of
Deloitte’s financial experience
and ERP experience, where we are
involved in seven of the 10 largest
implementations in the world, to lead
the development and implementation
of a large intra-service ERP.
• Supporting a number of commands
and agencies in the analysis of data
center consolidation and other technology
cost savings initiatives leveraging
our commercial merger and
acquisitions experiences.
• Supporting the operations of a large
PEO office with a technology-oriented
set of programs through many aspects
of the PEO’s operations.
• Providing many aspects of the business
and technology operations support
to a tier 1 data center within one
of the services.
• Providing financial data analytics,
financial consolidations and budgeting
support to a number of defense
agencies.
• Support for counter-threat finance
analytics and anti-fraud analysis for
multiple DoD organizations
Q: How are you working to strengthen the
security of your solutions?
A: Deloitte’s technology risk practice has a
depth of skills around the security and privacy
requirements of our defense and government
clients. Again, there is tight integration
to our commercial business, leveraging the
skills developed serving many of our financial
services clients and those from other industries.
The technology risk practice works very
closely with our other groups to strengthen
the security and privacy of the services we
offer to clients.
In addition, because we are broadly vendor
neutral, we have been able to work with a
number of our clients on their overall cyberstrategies
without creating OCI issues or having
a potential internal bias toward particular
solutions. While Deloitte will clearly make
collaborating decisions with a particular vendor
in certain situations where the client’s
need requires it, Deloitte’s position as an
organization is to remain vendor neutral and
make recommendations based on a particular
client’s requirements. This approach is part
of Deloitte’s culture and values that permeate
the entire organization.
Q: Is there anything else you’d like to add?
A: We are passionate about serving the
Department of Defense. Many of our leaders
either served in uniform or in civil service
and we are actively involved with multiple
wounded warrior and veteran organizations.
While Deloitte is very proud of our position as
the largest private professional services organization
in the world, we are really excited
when others recognize our success through
external rankings. In most technology and
functional areas, as well as most industries,
Deloitte is continually ranked in the top
three by multiple outside researchers. We are
proud of those rankings and believe it is
a reflection of the high caliber professionals
who make up our practices along with
our continued focus on helping our clients
achieve their objectives. O
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