ARMADA helps businesses, governments, schools, universities, healthcare entities, retail enterprises and other organizations by offering services that assist with mitigating and managing risk to people, assets, information, reputation and infrastructure.
To ensure your organization is properly prepared for a terrorist attack, natural disaster, information security breach, or other crisis, you must first understand your assets, threats, risks and vulnerabilities. After ranking your risks, ARMADA will help you develop a Needs Assessment or "Gap Aalysis" which will help you understanding your current capabilities as compared to where you need to be with regards to staffing, training, policies, technologies and exercing and training capabilities. ARMADA will help you transition your security threat and vulnerability assessment findings into a usable plan by developing a Security Master Plan. The Security Master Plan will provide you with a detailed outline of how to accomplish the mitigation steps in a one, three and five year timeframe. To complete this comprehensive process, ARMADA will deploy proven methodologies such as:
- Observation / Recommendation Findings Assessment
- CARVER-SHOCK
- HLS CAM
- Homeland Security - Security Threat & Vulnerability Assessments
ARMADA will review your staffing plans, security technologies, policies and procedures, training and awareness, and exercise procedures. Our real-world experienced Team will offer an in-depth evaluation of your organization's risk. We rank our findings by priority and provide you with comprehensive and cost-effective recommendations for improving your entity's overall safety and security. Our assessments can be modified and customized to meet the needs of any client, to include:
- Commercial and Industrial Facilities
- Retail Centers & Shopping Malls
- Schools, Universities, and other Educational Institutions
- Business Office Complexes
- Critical Infrastructure (energy, water, gas)
- Hospitals, Medical Centers & Health Care Providers
- Stadiums, Special Event Venues, Concerts, State Fairs, Large Festivals, Etc.
There is no question that in today's high-risk environment your organization needs to be protected. Identifying what it should be protected from is the challenge.
ARMADA will help you answer that question by conducting comprehensive Risk Assessments. Utilizing various assessment tools, ARMADA helps its customers identify, analyze, and mitigate risk for its associates, assets, supply chain, information, and reputation. ARMADA's staff has conducted hundreds of assessments, domestically and internationally, putting us in a position to partner with your organization and mitigate risk.
According to recent studies, workplace and school violence is the number one concern for most Directors of Security, Directors of Public Safety, and Security Professionals alike. However, just because a person makes a threat doesn’t mean they pose a threat. Is your team trained to investigate the circumstances and behaviors surrounding a potentially violent situation? Does your organization properly evaluate the facts surrounding the threat and make educated decisions? If not, we can help.
ARMADA will help your team assess the level of danger, define the current and potential threat situation, assist with forming a plan, help you analyze your vulnerabilities, as well as identify the specially trained personnel, manpower, logistics, equipment and administrative requirements needed to help ensure a successful resolution.
Just because your organization has a workplace violence prevention policy doesn’t mean your organization has an effective workplace violence program.
ARMADA can assist your organization with developing a comprehensive Workplace Aggression Program, not just with establishing a policy. ARMADA’s comprehensive program includes components such as;
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Establishing a Company Position
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Outlining Team Composition
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Developing Guidelines
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Training
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Management of Workplace Aggression Incidents
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Threat Assessments
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Action Steps and Safety Precautions
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Maintaining Awareness & Incident Follow-up
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Relationship Building
As the property owner, administrator, or head of your organization, one of your primary goals is to provide a safe and secure environment for your associates, students, patients or tenants. This is no easy task.
ARMADA's team has assisted organizations like yours with generating and implementing security and safety policies and procedures. Having structured policies and procedures will allow your organization to minimize property damage, bodily injury and liability.
There are a number of security consulting companies out there that can provide Tactical Officers, Videographers, Scribes, etc; which can be a tremendous asset when dealing with a strike or work stoppage. However, there are very few companies that can actually help organizations plan and prepare for a strike, work stoppage or sudden arrival of protesters.
ARMADA is your partner when it comes to completing the appropriate pre-strike / picketing assessments, development of continuity and emergency operation plans, training of personnel on how and when to cross picket lines, as well as act as the Security Liaison between the Company, strike security contractors, local law enforcement and other entities intricately involved in a strike or picketing event.
Force on Force takes training to a whole different level. Instead of shooting at paper or steel, team members are fighting with adversaries who react, think, and shoot back. Your team’s actions and words change the adversary’s behavior. The penalty for not moving, not being decisive, not think or communicating becomes very apparent in these real life training.
ARMADA is your partner when it comes to developing military or law enforcement Force-on-Force and Red Cell Training. Beyond assisting with development of the training scenarios, ARMADA’s real world, global experienced tactics teams stand ready to test your organizations capabilities and operate as a Red Cell / OPFOR.
You have invested a lot of time and effort into getting your business where it is today. You have established a good reputation with your customers, suppliers and community. Now imagine that all you have worked for was to go up in smoke, hit by a flash-flood, “blown away” by a tornado, demolished by an earthquake, or shut down due to a workplace violence incident or network/infrastructure virus.
As a member of management, you need to protect your organization from disruptions and safeguard your clients and customers from delays in service, deliveries, response failures, and corrupted or compromised data.
ARMADA is your partner when it comes to establishing Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plans for your organization.
ARMADA is prepared to assist your organization with Maritime Security needs by providing:
- Physical & Logic Assessments (Ports, Airports, Government Buildings, Etc)
- Exercise Development, Planning, and Evaluation
- Red Cell
- Force on Force Training
- Global Policy Review / Development
- Security System Design & Integration
- Product Research & Development Assistance
- Incident Investigation
A crisis is a major, unpredictable event that threatens to harm an organization and its stakeholders. Although crisis events are unpredictable, they are not unexpected. Crises can affect all segments of society – businesses, churches, educational institutions, families, non-profits and the government and are caused by a wide range of reasons. Although the definitions can vary greatly, three elements are common to most definitions of crisis: (a) a threat to the organization, (b) the element of surprise, and (c) a short decision time.
Our experienced professionals will help prepare your management to properly manage crisis situations and/or can be called upon to augment your organization’s leadership and become an active member of your Crisis Management Team.
How does your city, town, county, state or Region plan for the unknown? Your community may be operating without problems today; however, there are a whole host of events beyond your control that could bring it to an abrupt halt. The emergency management plans you put in place today may be the determining factor on whether or how quickly your community is able to resume normal operations after a crisis or major event. You need to protect your community from disruptions and safeguard your community’s citizens, infrastructure, and emergency response reputation.
ARMADA is your partner when it comes to establishing emergency management plans, crisis management procedures, continuity of operation measures, and disaster recovery plans for your community. ARMADA can also help your organization identify the appropriate staff members that should participate in the emergency planning, training and exercises.
Whether it's a workshop, tabletop exercise, drill, functional exercise, or a full-scale scenario based exercise, ARMADA will develop, facilitate, and evaluate the exercise and ensure you receive the most beneficial results possible. ARMADA's HSEEP and MEP certified subject matter experts will ensure your exercise is NIMS and HSEEP complaint. In addition, ARMADA can provide role-players, including foreign language speaking personnel, to ensure the exercises are as realistic as possible. Exercises are customizable and can meet the needs of various clients to include:
- State, County and Local Emergency Management Agencies
- Federal Emergency Management Agency
- Federal, State, County & Local Homeland Security
- Federal, State, County, & Local Law Enforcement / Corrections
- Federal, State, County & Local Public Health Officials
- Small, Medium, and Fortune 500 Corporations & Businesses
- Critical Infrastructure Providers (Energy, Water, Gas)
- Military (Active Duty, Reserve, National Guard Units)
- County, City & Township Planners
- HAZ-MAT Storage and Transport Companies
- Mass Transit Providers
- Hospitals & other Medical & Health Care Providers
- Schools, Universities & other Educational Institutions
- Transportation & Logistics Organizations
- Communication & Network Providers
To ensure your agency or corporation is properly prepared for a terrorist attack, natural disaster, information security breach, or other crisis, you must first understand your risk and vulnerabilities. ARMADA can help you understand your risk and security voids through the use of proven methodologies such as:
- CARVER-SHOCK
- CORAS - Model-based Risk Assessment
- JSIVA: Joint Service Integrated Vulnerability Assessment
- HLS - CAM: Homeland Security - Comprehensive Assessment Model
ARMADA will review your security technologies, policies and procedures, training and awareness, and exercise procedures and offer an in-depth evaluation of your organization's risk. We rank our findings by priority and provide you with comprehensive and cost-effective recommendations for improving your entity's overall safety and security. Our assessments can be modified and customized to meet the needs of any client, to include:
- Airports
- Commercial and Industrial Facilities
- Government Agencies
- Mass Transit Systems
- Retail Centers and Shopping Malls
- Schools, Universities, and other Educational Institutions
- Business Office Complexes
- Critical Infrastructure (energy, water, gas)
- Hospitals, Medical Centers & Health Care Providers
- Military Installations
- Seaports
Force Protection (FP) is the security program designed to protect soldiers, civilian employees, family members, facilities, and equipment, within the area of responsibility, at home stations, during mobilization, during deployment, and in conjunction with overseas temporary duty or permanent change of stations. The Department of Defense (DoD) defines "antiterrorism" as "defensive measures used to reduce the vulnerability of individuals and property to terrorist acts.”
ARMADA's staff is prepared to assist your organization with the development and publication of tactical, antiterrorism, and force protection policies and procedures. Additionally, we have the capability of assisting your organization with force protection and anti-terrorism program implementation.