Principal

Keith Hedman, President and Chief Executive Officer. PSI's uniquely qualified staff has extensive experience in a wide range of safeguards and security, program management, and protective force operations.

PSI Mission

To become the leading provider of national and international security services by delivering the Highest Standards of Quality Services and adhering to the following principles:

• Offer exceptional support services at low competitive rates for a wide range of security disciplines, resulting in some of the industry's most competitive rates and comprehensive programs.
• Retain the security industry's most respected subject matter experts through a work environment that nurtures creativity and innovation among employees; encourages promotion from within; and offers comprehensive, competitive employee benefits.
• Ensure the recruitment of a highly qualified, diverse staff; require all technical staff to maintain a top level federal security clearance and provide seasoned professionals in all security disciplines to our customers.

PSI Values

PSI’s success is built on its core values which are as follows:

• Integrity in all aspects of our organization
• Innovation to save costs and to find efficient ways of improving operations
• Commitment dedicated to the success of our clients
• Professionalism, staying abreast of current technologies and practices
• Excellence in performance

Competitive Advantage

Proven & Experienced Experts

PSI employs a talent pool of highly skilled, seasoned security experts who possess national recognition and accreditations for their performance. Each professional staff member possesses an impressive background in safeguards and security, protective force services, project management, and security operations management conducted in field operations. PSI’s core corporate staff have over 120 years of combined national level security services experience performing personnel security background investigations and adjudications; chemical/biological countermeasures, weapons of mass destruction, emergency/contingency planning, risk analysis, vulnerability assessments, and advisory support to both government and commercial clients. PSI’s operational staff are experienced professionals at providing accurate information quickly, maintaining privacy, security and confidentiality at all times, as well as exhibiting compliance expertise with local, State and Federal regulations. Several members of the PSI staff have served on staffs at the highest levels of government. Their corps of security experts are military veterans with years of experience within the Headquarters of the Department of Energy, the Department of Defense, and the Department of State. All PSI technical personnel hold a DOE 'Q' security clearance and/or a DOD "Top Secret" security clearance.

Multi-disciplined Security Services

PSI is committed to the success of their clients. PSI has participated in the development and validation of Continuity of Operations Plans (COOP) for various government agencies. PSI is widely recognized for comprehensive protection programs that integrate physical, technical, information, operations, personnel, computer, and communications security disciplines. In planning, implementing, or evaluating protection programs, PSI uses threat and vulnerability modeling methodologies, cost-benefit analysis, and other risk management tools to optimize cost effectiveness. PSI has extensive experience in developing threat models for physical and cyber terrorist threats, terrorists using weapons of mass destruction, technical attacks, and operations security (OPSEC) vulnerability assessments. PSI personnel have developed, assisted in and assessed large scale, multi-agency emergency management exercises. Exercises have included scenarios involving weapons of mass destruction in forms ranging from improvised explosive radiological devices to full scale nuclear attacks.

Technical Approach and Validation

PSI offers an exceptional “Vulnerability Perspective”, which is unique and complements the traditional protection program methodologies. This perspective applies to natural disasters, terrorism, or other potential threats. Historically, security planners identify what constitutes their “core assets” and then they design its security in concentric layers outward from those assets. PSI’s “Credible Vulnerability Specialists” identify critical assets that are the most susceptible to a variety of diverse risks. In the case of a terrorist(s), they (1) establish potential adversary paths and penetration techniques most likely to be used, (2) assess the probability of occurrence, and (3) outline security measures and mitigation actions that will reduce the risk of adversary success to an acceptable limit. In the case of a catastrophic natural disaster such as earthquake, hurricane, forest fire, tornado, or flooding, PSI defines and tracks methods of forecasting early warning, and other mitigation methodologies to protect critical mission assets, personnel, and their operational capabilities. This “outside the box” approach is not designed to replace traditional security planning, but to provide additional insight that can be used to increase the synergy of the overall protection program. The PSI staff have successfully applied these security risk assessments to government, commercial industries, airports, and nuclear facilities. Solutions are validated through the use of “live” adversary penetration-of-systems performance tests, and through “tabletop” exercise scenarios. Final results are institutionalized in directives, emergency checklists, and other Operational Instructions after the modeled and tested results have been proven. In addition to conducting classes at client facilities, PSI meets the needs of security by providing on-site tailored instruction. PSI reduces many intrinsic expenses by offering quality instruction via our "mobile training team concept". PSI provides subject matter experts with backgrounds specific to the desired topics of instruction, develops the course curriculum to the client's expectations, and delivers the course of instruction at a client specified location. PSI has used this methodology to develop and provide specialized educational services designed to fit various needs, and to assist the individual office with career enhancement and professional skills development.

Specialized Experience

In response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) determined that there was an urgent need for the chemical industry to review its infrastructure and identify and mitigate potential vulnerabilities. PSI senior staff assisted the CCPS in developing a uniform, effective, and common vulnerability assessment methodology. PSI was selected because of it's extensive background in national level vulnerability assessment methodologies and risk management programs dealing with terrorism, terrorist capabilities, and weapons of mass destruction. As a result, the CCPS developed a new guidelines book titled: Guidelines for Managing and Analyzing the Security Vulnerabilities of Fixed Chemical Sites. PSI personnel are certified to conduct Vulnerability and Risk Assessments for designated critical infrastructure facilities. PSI's security professionals are certified in the Community Vulnerability Assessment Methodology (CVAMSM) developed by Sandia National Laboratory. PSI staff uses CVAM as a systematic process to assist communities in assessing threat, prioritizing targets, identifying consequences, assessing completeness and effectiveness of security systems, and to provide decision makers with the information necessary to make informed decisions on effective use of resources to address vulnerabilities and mitigate risks. PSI's utilizes state-of-the-art vulnerability assessment modeling tools when conducting thorough analyses on threats against the most critical national assets. Our subject matter experts are trained and certified in the use of modeling tools such as Vulnerability Assessment & Protection Option (VAPO)^tm, a tool that supports terrorist threat analysis primarily from high-explosives in an urban environment. This air blast model includes the reflections, shielding, and diffraction of blasts that exist in a multi-building, 3D environment. PSI's vulnerability assessment team members use an analytical tool called Design Analysis of Neutralization Technologies Evaluator (DANTE), allowing our analysts to develop computer modeling terrorist threat scenario setup and simulation without having to rely on outside assistance. Key components of an assessment include:

• Identifying threats and critical facilities
• Determining how facilities are vulnerable to identified threats
• Developing methods to protect identified facility vulnerabilities
• Providing mitigation strategies, security system designs, and security enhancement planning

Sandia National Laboratory Certifications for Vulnerability and Risk Assessments:

• Community Vulnerability Assessment Methodology (CVAMSM)
• Risk Assessment Methodology - Water (RAM-W)
• Risk Assessment Methodology - Dams (RAM-D)
• Risk Assessment Methodology - Transit (RAM-T)

In summary, our collective corporate experience coupled with our past performance record, contract security knowledge, and our continuing relationships and contacts within the security community, provide us with a formidable history in the security services and law enforcement industry, and prepare us to become the leading provider of national and international security services.