Booz Allen Hamilton CEO Horacio Rozanski is in an unprecedented position. Not only is he the first CEO to lead the storied government contracting firm as a public company after Carlyle’s exit, but last year his firm derived 98% of its $12 billion in revenue from the U.S. government. That put him in the crosshairs as DOGE came to town, spooking investors and forcing him to lay off 7% of the company’s staff. Rozanski spoke to Fortune recently, in a wide-ranging conversation covering everything from Iran to national security spending to what exactly Booz Allen Hamilton does.
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