Logistics Management Institute
| Non-Profit | |
| Industry | Management consulting services |
| Founded | October 3, 1961 |
| Headquarters | Tysons Corner, Virginia, U.S. (McLean mailing address) |
Key people | Nelson Ford, President and CEO |
| Website | http://www.lmi.org |
The Logistics Management Institute (more commonly referred to as LMI Government Consulting or LMI) is a non-profit consulting firm catering primarily to the public sector. Founded in 1961, it is headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia near McLean in the Greater Washington, D.C. area, with eight satellite offices located throughout the United States.[1]
History
In September, 1961 Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara sent a memorandum to President John F. Kennedy recommending the creation of an independent organization which could provide logistics management services and related research to the federal government. With Kennedy's support, the Logistics Management Institute was founded three weeks later on October 3, 1961. Initially based out of an office in The Pentagon, LMI consisted of under a dozen employees at its formation.
During the following year LMI grew considerably, more than doubling its staff and relocating to a new office. Despite congressional interest in defunding the organization during the early 1970s, LMI managed to remain solvent by expanding its market to include other government agencies, though it remained primarily focused on the servicing the Department of Defense.
Steady growth continued through the late 1970s and into the following decade. In 1984 LMI moved its headquarters to Bethesda, MD. The following year, Deputy Secretary of Defense William Howard Taft IV designated LMI as a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC), precluding it from competing with profit-seeking firms. Significant growth coupled with funding caps imposed by Congress on FFRDCs in the 1990s proved burdensome however, and in 1998 LMI was returned to its initial status as a non-profit.[2]
In 2013 developers broke ground on "Tysons Overlook", and eleven-story office complex in Tysons Corner, VA adjacent to the headquarters of Gannett/USA Today. As of 2014, LMI owns and occupies six floors within the facility, which houses its current headquarters.[3]
Subsidiaries
In 2004 LMI acquired The Bureaucrat, Inc., a non-profit organization which publishes The Public Manager, a quarterly journal covering public management issues,[4] and the following year formed the LMI Research Institute, which conducts research for the organization both internally and through academic partnerships with several research universities in the United States.[5] In 2008, LMI purchased Jasmah Consulting, which was reorganized as the Intelligence Programs group within the organization's existing infrastructure.[6]
References
- ↑ "Logistics Management Institute, Inc.: Private Company Information - Businessweek". Businessweek.com.
- ↑ "LMI Government Consulting - History". lmi.org.
- ↑ "LMI Government Consulting - News Item". lmi.org.
- ↑ "The Bureaucrat, Inc.: Private Company Information - Businessweek". Businessweek.com.
- ↑ "LMI Government Consulting - LMI Research Institute". lmi.org.
- ↑ "LMI acquires Jasmah Consulting". Washington Business Journal.