A couple of things for this company. I guess they have been around for a bit, and have done a few things in Iraq and Afghanistan, but honestly, I have never heard of them. The TWISS 2 contract award was the first time I had heard the name, and so I thought I would do a little Google Fu and get them up on this new fancy category FJ has called ‘Company Spotlight’. Check it out, and look for possible gigs either through them, or their partners Sandi Group and Dreshak in regards to the TWISS 2 stuff. –Matt
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Message from the President and CEO
Welcome to the Protection Strategies Incorporated (PSI) web-site. This site is designed to familiarize you with our company, our staff, our services, and our areas of expertise.PSI is a U.S. Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned business, founded in 1998, and certified in the Small Business Administration’s small business program. PSI maintains GSA Federal Supply Schedules for Schedule 84, Schedule 70, Schedule 738X, and Mission Oriented Business Integrated Services (MOBIS) Schedule.At its genesis, PSI was a two person security company with a contract supporting a Department of Energy security operations program. Over the years that have passed, PSI has grown into a company with uncompromising standards that provides security support services to many agencies within the Federal Government as well as private corporations nationwide and overseas. Our senior staff has a vast depth and breadth of management and security experience, and PSI personnel bring with them myriad skills and expertise in countless security disciplines.
On the domestic front, PSI specializes in on-site security surveys, vulnerability assessments, risk assessments, personnel security adjudication, critical infrastructure protection and physical security, including protective force services.
PSI’s overseas operations have included personnel on-the-ground in Iraq and Afghanistan with the support of both the U.S. Government and the hosting country. PSI operated as an advisor and service provider to the Anti-Terrorism Assistance Program (ATAP) in Bogota, Colombia.
I am happy to report that PSI has one of the more aggressive and comprehensive employee benefits packages in the industry. PSI values its employees, their contributions, and encourages an environment of esprit de corps that motivates and challenges the workforce.
I assure you that PSI will provide innovative, state-of-the-art security solutions of the highest caliber at a fair and competitive price. I expect nothing less, and it is my personal goal to ensure that each client’s expectations for complete customer satisfaction are fulfilled.
Sincerely,Keith P. HedmanPresident and CEOProtection Strategies Incorporated
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PSI’s staff and associates who operate overseas largely have military special operations, intelligence, police, or other security backgrounds, and often have foreign language capabilities. They are widely experienced in developing realistic but workable training and support plans for security managers and organizations ranging from indigenous paramilitary police and military forces, to guard forces for critical US and friendly government facilities, to VIP and critical asset protection teams made up of US, expatriate, and local personnel. They have operated in the “gray” areas of environments where significant constraints on the use of deadly force apply, and have the maturity and professionalism to work effectively with local authorities and other security resources in all threat conditions. They are highly skilled in quickly assessing mission requirements against postulated criminal, terrorist, or other potentially destabilizing threats, determining needed capabilities, factoring in any available technological “force multipliers”, and presenting a client with workable security operations solutions, backed up by contingency plans for rapid reinforcement and/or evacuation.PSI has established logistic and personnel support operations in Iraq. PSI’s teaming partner is an integrated personnel support, security, construction management, and logistics solutions provider operating exclusively in Iraq since January 2004, and provides personal services, secure logistics, and security assistance across a broad spectrum of disciplines. The staff is uniquely qualified and has extensive experience in a broad range of recruitment, contract administration, personnel investigative, evaluation and security services.
PSI’s core staff in Iraq possess a wide variety of experience which includes former U.S. Military personnel with extensive experience working in hostile environments, where the mission is to operate, to the greatest practical extent, exclusively in Iraq supporting Coalition and Iraqi reconstruction and security programs.
Capabilities and resources in Iraq include:
• Third Country National (TCN) and Local National (LN) recruitment, vetting, and training to support Iraq reconstruction
• Facility, force, and infrastructure protection operations including design, build, installation and maintenance of physical protection systems (PPS)
• Facility Security Program design and management
• Technical Security System design, installation and operation
• Contract administration and construction management services
• High Value Cargo Escorts and Movement
• Mobilization and Demobilization risk assessments and mitigation planning
• Vulnerability Assessment and Blast Analysis/Mitigation
A core competency of operations in Iraq is providing secure logistics support to Government and commercial entities. This support often includes provision of personnel security teams. These personnel are trained in “high profile” as well as indigenous operations. Work in this environment has enabled our “in- country personnel” to establish an extensive networking capability in and around the Baghdad region. This capability is actively exploited by our technical security specialists in mitigating threats against our local national personnel and our operations.
PSI is currently providing security program management and local guard force oversight through a sub-contract with the Department of State to support the Antiterrorism Assistance Branch’s training operation for President Karzi’s protections personnel. This effort required a rapid initiation, which begun with a two-person advance party followed by a relief in place with permanent party personnel. Project initiation required development of a unique security program for the training compound including translating policies and procedures into Dari, implementing a badge identification system, and an expatriate emergency evacuation plan, all of which supported the main requirement, the molding and training of an elite guard force drawn from the ranks of the Afghanistan Presidential Guard.
The security program and guard force training activities are closely coordinated with the State Department training staff and with the adjoining U.S. Army Special Forces forward operating base (FOB). This 24/7 operation is set in one of the most challenging environments that civilian security professionals could face and requires adaptation and improvisation in virtually every aspect of this operation. This unique security challenge is being met with the courage, skills, and professional demeanor necessary to provide the quality of service expected by our clients.
PSI has for the past 5 years provided the “Adversary Perspective” as part of a US interagency team working a lengthy project to assist Kazakhstan in the recovery of spent nuclear fuel from a water storage facility on the Caspian Sea and moving it to a new underground storage area on the opposite end of the country, entailing a rail voyage of over a thousand miles. PSI’s support has included development and presentation both in the US and Kazakhstan of several attack scenarios for each of several postulated threats, as well as offering a variety of measures to mitigate or defeat those attacks, for each of several proposed locations. The result has been to narrow down the locations to one with significant increases in the proposed security for both the storage site itself and for the rail movement of the material.
PSI carried out a mission for the State Department’s Anti Terrorism Assistance program similar to that in Afghanistan for two years, until the program’s location was considered sufficiently stable that dedicated US security management was no longer needed. PSI’s assistance came in the form both of hands-on, highly visible establishment of security posts and procedures at the dedicated training camp, located in what was initially non-secured countryside 100+ kilometers outside of Bogota, and in the form of written plans and orders for the use of guard personnel and US personnel working at the camp. PSI conducted training for Colombian national police personnel in the skills needed to operate a physical security program at the camp.
Current PSI staff, operating with experience gained in earlier vulnerability assessments conducted for the FAA at US airports, carried out training for airport and airline security officers in Egypt in both airport security and security inspections of aircraft before flight.As part of the proposed training package to the Egyptian Civil Aviation Administration, PSI’s current international operations mobile training team offered to carry out a “learn by doing” brief security survey with trainees at an international airport. The ECAA was provided all visuals and videos of training and surveys conducted. A similar effort was undertaken for a security systems firm given a contract to upgrade security at the Dominican Republic’s two international airports; PSI staff coordinated with the military and police elements providing security, then assessed security requirements at both airports.
PSI has carried out detailed internal security situation assessments on a number of occasions for the Department of Energy regarding potential threats to the movement of spent nuclear fuel from current locations in countries of dubious stability to the United States, leading to a major added instruction to a material shipper. PSI staff operated a contract providing analytical support to the State Department’s Overseas Security Advisory Council. Current PSI staff developed a worldwide executive protection program and contingency evacuation plans for a US-based multinational firm’s overseas operations. Current PSI staff developed security plans for an oil exploration company’s operations in Peru. PSI is currently engaged in developing corporate-wide and location-specific security plans for a rapidly-growing international transportation and logistics firm.
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August 2009 – Protection Strategies Incorporated awarded Theater Wide Internal Security Services (TWISS II) contract.
Through a government solicited full and open competitive bid, Protection Strategies Incorporated was awarded a prime contract from the Joint Contracting Command-Iraq/Afghanistan (JCC-IA) to provide Theater Wide Internal Security Services. Protection Strategies Incorporated, along with their Joint Venture members The Sandi Group (TSG) and the Dreshak Group will provide labor, weapons, equipment, and other essential requirements to supplement and augment security operations at various sites throughout the Iraqi and Afghanistan Theater. PSI personnel will supplement internal operations at entry control points, man perimeter towers, secure selected facilities, provide armed escorts for local national laborers, maintain a liaison cell at selected headquarter sites such as Area Defense Operations Centers (ADOCs) and the Base Defense Operations Centers (BDOCs) and any other internal security services. Responsibilities include enforcement of the respective Force Protection Commander’s security rules and regulations regarding authorized access to Camp and/or Forward Operating Base (FOB), including internal check points and performing the selected necessary security functions as assigned at the selected site(s).
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