In a strategic effort to prioritize enforcement and removal operations toward criminal aliens (those individuals illegally present in US with a criminal conviction), Booz Allen Hamilton began supporting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Booz Allen’s implementation of analytics spanned three years and involved developing a set of models used to solve challenging problems such as forecasting the number of criminal illegal aliens, optimizing a technology deployment schedule, and minimizing the transportation costs of removal. The impact of the work resulted in a doubling of criminal alien removals, leading to greater public safety for the American people.
In addition, this Booz Allen project, “Enhancing Immigration Enforcement with Decision Analytics” won the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences’ (INFORMS) inaugural Innovation in Analytics Award in 2011.
This project was selected by the INFORMS judging panel over almost 50 other entrants for its “creative and unique developments, applications or combinations of analytical techniques” and is that is was designed to “promote the awareness of the value of analytics techniques in unusual applications or in creative combination to provide unique insights and/or business value".
Learn more about how the combination of simulation and multidisciplinary experts can help government excel at achieving important mandates, such as making the country more secure.Presentation slides of the 2012 winning project from Booz Allen Hamilton can be found on the Analytics Section of the INFORMS website; however you must be a member of the section to view these slides. The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) is the largest professional society in the world for professionals in the field of operations research, management science, and business analytics.