The task order awarded to Protection Strategies has been awarded under their current Senior Consulting contract with the Office of Secure Transportation (OST). Under this task order, PSI will provide senior consulting services to assist OST in conducting range operations and range design criterion analyses, and then to assist with the development of a Risk Assessment Report for the live fire range at the Agent Operations Eastern Command (AOEC). PSI will be analyzing 7.62mm rifle ammunition and 40mm training/practice rounds at the associated surface danger zone (SDZ). Based on PSI’s analysis they will also provide the OST with a report containing risk controls and options for risk mitigation.

The services provided by PSI will assist the OST and AOEC in maintaining a safer live fire range and surface danger zone.

PSI is providing the U.S. Geological Survey with Top Secret cleared Security Specialist services and is responsible for various tasks, which include:

• Maintaining registry information pertaining to classified materials, certifications, and to support various security matters
• Ensuring Automated Information Security Support tasks are executed as scheduled
• Protecting classified traffic on communications networks that will include data, voice, and video
• Performing additional tasks which guarantee continuity and efficient operations within the team

The services provided by PSI will assist the Advanced Systems Center (ASC) in providing the capabilities for exploitation of unclassified and classified data in support of various Federal agency and National Geospatial-Intelligence programs.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate has extended PSI’s contract to provide Protective Security Officers Services for the Plum Island Animal Disease Center (PIADC) in Orient, NY through the end of April 2013. PIADC is the foremost U.S. Government research center for animal diseases including hoof-in-mouth and mad cow disease. PSI has been providing protective force services at PIADC since 2007 and is pleased to continue supporting DHS at this important facility.

The MELEMAX Team, which includes Protection Strategies Incorporated (PSI), has been selected for an award from the Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) for a Technical, Programmatic, and Engineering Support Services Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA).  This BPA has a 5-year period of performance and a ceiling of $300 million. The scope of work covers a range of areas include:

• Program Management Support
• Nuclear Engineering Subject Matter Expertise & Analytical Support
• Training Support
• Security Management Support
• Weapons Data Access System Programmatic Support
• Emergency Operations (Domestic & International) Support
• Aviation Operations Support
• Nuclear Nonproliferation
• Environmental Management

The BPA may be used by all offices within the Department of Energy and NNSA. MELEMAX is comprised of select companies with a proven record of quality performance and dedication at the DOE/NNSA. 

PSI offers comprehensive programs that integrate a broad spectrum of security disciplines including: physical, technical, personnel, operations, communications, and cyber security. 

For more information on PSI, please contact Alden R. Sanborn at 703-553-0561 or by email at asanborn@protectionsi.com. 

For more information on this contract or MELEMAX, please contract Jack Melito at (240) 498-2516 or by email at jack.melito@meleassociates.com or Joshua Larson at (240) 453-6972 or by email at joshua.larson@meleassociates.com.

Protection Strategies Incorporated is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Alden Sanborn to the position of Business Development Manager. In this position, Mr. Sanborn will take the lead for identifying and developing new business opportunities as well as enhancing PSI’s strategic business alliance posture. Mr. Sanborn will also play a substantial role in PSI’s development of a diverse portfolio of new commercial, government, and international clients while maintaining established relationships with our current stakeholders.

Prior to joining PSI, Alden served as a Senior Security Consultant to the Department of Energy, providing subject matter expertise to the National Nuclear Security Administration within the Office of Defense Nuclear Security.  He has also served as an on-site logistics manager and security liaison within the Department of Labor, as the former Director of Field Operations to the Secretary of Labor.  He conveys to PSI a valued knowledge of several Federal Agencies and an understanding of the Legislative Branch from his past performance on Capitol Hill.  

PSI recently appointed Eric Jeglum as CSO to our newly structured Leadership Team wherein he will lead the design and implementation of PSI’s recently created Business Strategies and the development of PSI’s global approach, market expansion, and implementation.   Eric brings to PSI a very proactive 25-year hands-on career leading and directing national and international corporate and government organizations on Crisis and Risk Management, Business Continuity, Narco-terrorism, and of course, Strategic Planning implementation and re-engineering strategies.

Dr. Jeglum’s extensive experience in identifying organizational plans and performance issues, risks and threats will also be utilized to address PSI customer’s global management planning and operational effectiveness issues. His expertise brings substantial support to PSI, whereas he designs, develops, and implements change mechanisms to creatively resolve critical management issues affecting high-performance organizations.  His expertise also resolves in-depth Business & Government Continuity, and Emergency Preparedness development, application, and implementation issues for PSI’s global constituency.  Earlier career highlights prior to joining PSI include 10 years with the FBI as their Emergency Plans Coordinator for national continuity, and 20 years as Senior (risk management) Advisor to Booz Allen Hamilton. 

The ongoing restructuring of PSI to transition to global operations has successfully led to the appointment of Kasra Farzanegan to lead PSI’s financial operations.  In support of PSI’s new CEO, Bobby Beaty and recently appointed President, Mike Voce, Kasra adds the additional expertise of a senior CFO/Controller to the growing PSI team. 

Mr. Farzanegan brings his extensive experience from the government contracting services sector having previously held positions as CFO and Vice President across public and private government and military contracting firms.  He brings more than 30 years of experience in guiding and providing compliance with CAS, FAR, DCAA, SOX, and SEC. Mr. Farzanegan also serves as the point of contact with auditors, governmental agencies, banks, and interested third parties.

On June 17, 2012 the Government of Iraq launched a three-day seminar, the Iraqi Regional National Security Seminar. The seminar followed the grand opening of the new Al-Nahrain Center for Strategic Studies in Baghdad. The center which was sponsored by the US Embassy in Baghdad and the Government of Iraq includes Iraq’s National Defense University and National Defense College, the Iraq War College, and the Iraq Language Institute. The center represents Iraq’s commitment to professional development and strategic studies for senior Iraq officials.

PSI supported the initiative through a sub-contract with BH Defense, by providing enterprise-class IT equipment, two websites, and installation support.

The IT equipment consisted of Dell servers and Cisco products including over 20 WIFI access points, a wireless controller, and multiple Catalyst switches and routers.

PSI also designed and developed two websites on the Drupal platform with multilingual capabilities. One website was built to aid in the registrations for the seminar and the other was built to serve as an informative site about the National Defense University, National Defense College, War College, and Language Institute.

PSI followed up the supply of equipment and websites with top-notch reach-back support which played a critical role in assuring a successful installation.

Robert J. Walsh, former Senior Executive with the U.S. Department of Energy, was recently appointed Director of Operations in support of PSI’s transition into a global risk management and security corporation. Bob’s 36 years of expertise included progressively more complex and challenging senior management positions in both the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (USINS) and DOE.

His background and experience includes law enforcement, intelligence, and security. Bob spent the last 21 years of his career as a member of the Senior Executive Service in DOE’s Intelligence and Security organizations. During this time Bob served as DOE’s representative to the National Foreign Intelligence Board (NFIB) and the National Counterintelligence Committee. He was also responsible for creating and chairing the Inter-agency Executive Protection Group.  Prior to his retirement in 2008, Bob served as the Director of Security for DOE’s Under Secretary of Energy. After his retirement, Bob joined the consulting firm of Booz Allen Hamilton, where he supported a number of Federal clients including the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Homeland Security, the United States Postal Service, and DOE.

On June 8, 2012, through a sub-contract with The COGAR Group, PSI was awarded the FDA Nationwide Security Command Center contract at the White Oak, MD campus. PSI began providing services at the White Oak campus on June 11th. The team provides console operators and monitoring services for  the nationwide command center on the campus, from which the monitoring consists of FDA facilities nationwide including approximately 400 cameras and over 7000 alarms, sensors, and servers. Other services  include the monitoring of CCTVs, fielding incoming calls, alarm response and dispatch, emergency response, equipment testing, and coordination of periodic briefings. PSI is highly familiar with the White Oak campus command center and brings a wealth of experience in command center monitoring to the FDA contract.