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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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Logistics Management Institute, Inc.: Private Company Information - Businessweek )〕 ==History== In September, 1961 Secretary of Defense Robert MacNamara 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=LMI Government Consulting - History )〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=LMI Government Consulting - News Item )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Logistics Management Institute」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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