Homeland Defense Training Workshop®:

Physical Security for Government Facilities
A Two-Day Workshop for Government Facilities Managers

June 7- 8, 2005
NRECA Executive Conference Center
Arlington, VA

Please note that online registration for this event is now closed. However, we have a few spots left open. Simply bring your payment and the completed attached registration form with you to the registration desk.

About This Workshop

The key to protecting your facility is to use solid risk management techniques and expertise to identify and implement cost-effective security solutions. Physical Security for Government Facilities will teach you basic defense measures (including protection basics for outside penetration) and how to develop countermeasures to reduce security risk . This course will help you create, or improve, your organization-wide security plan to improve your defenses against terrorist attacks, theft, vandalism, intruders, etc.

Government facilities are not yet where they need to be to manage various physical security threats. Knowing how to protect your most vital buildings and systems -- and your employees -- should be your number one priority. Attend this very important workshop to protect your most important assets.

You'll also receive handouts which will provide you with a take-home, strategic "guide" to help you in your physical security planning.

What You Will Learn

• How to create or improve your security measures
• What to do if faced with a physical security threat
• How to train guards and other staff to react to various security situations
• How to communicate a threat to your staff
• How to improve security conditions at your facility to mitigate disasters, acts of violence, and terrorism
   

Here's What Previous Attendees Said About This Workshop:

"Tom McCoig was excellent. His knowledge and experience are above the normal. I will like to attend more training classes under his teaching." – Major Clemens, II, E.R. Preparedness Planner, Fairfax County Government

"Good update of current technology and practices." – Ron Face, Director, NETC Mgmt, FEMA/DHS

"Tom McCoig has obviously been on the “ground” at one time or another. This lends to his credibility as a trainer. His presentation concept was a great blend of PowerPoint, lecture and participation." – David Wyckoff, Police Officer/Physical Security Officer, Ft. Greely Police Department (Alaska)

"Excellent seminar with a very dynamic instructor." – Major Ann Marie Messner, Startech Security

Who Should Attend

• Base and civil engineers
• Federal, state and local managers with security responsibility
• U.S. Civil agencies, government building/facilities managers, and companies with critical infrastructure to be protected
• Security infrastructure executives
• Anyone involved in guard protection services or law enforcement
• Security professionals
   

A Sample List of Early Registrants Include:

• Booz Allen Hamilton, Senior Security Specialist
• Colorado State Patrol, Sergeant
• DEA, Security Specialist
• Department of Veterans Affairs, Readiness Operations Specialist
• Department of Veterans Affairs Police Force, Criminal Investigator
• District of Columbia, Department of Corrections
• Distrct of Columbia, Water & Sewer Authority
• Howard County, Maryland DPW, Bureau Chief
• HQDA, ODKS, G-2, Assistant Security Manager
• Maryland Motor Vehicles Administration, Physical Security Specialist
• Maryland State Lottery Agency, Facilities Manager
• Michigan Municipal Risk Management Authority, Risk Consultant
• North Huntingdon, PA Township, Township Manager
• NREL, Office Director of Security & Special Projects
• NSA, Sergeant
• Pentagon Force Protection Agency, Deputy Director of Security Services
• Prince George's County, Maryland Office of Homeland Security, Operations Officer/Planner
• Prince George's County, Maryland Police Department, Lieutenant
• Rhode Island State Police, Domestic Preparedness Program Planner
• Social Security Administration, Physical Security Specialist
• Ultravision Security Systems, President
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Security Specialist
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Perry Project Office, Park Ranger/Security Officer
• VFA, Senior Project Manager
• Washington Group International, Corporate Security Manager

About Your Chairman

Tom McCoig is Senior Security Consultant with Telemus Solutions and is a security risk management professional with 29 years of combined military, law enforcement, safety, and security expertise. His diverse background represents a unique blend of operational, technical, tactical, and managerial skills that provide practical solutions for the security issues facing industry, communities, and government today.

Mr. McCoig is skilled in using numerous security assessment methods and adapting those methods to meet client objectives. He helped develop security workshops for numerous clients, has conducted numerous security threat and vulnerability assessments, security audits, provided security countermeasure upgrade recommendations and is very knowledgeable about countermeasures technology and selection.

Guest Speakers

Mike Chritton is CH2M HILL’s Director of Security Programs. His security experience ranges from staff intelligence officer to lead designer and a field design liaison engineer on a $400-million security upgrade. Mr. Chritton has instructed for the International Training Course for Physical Protection of Nuclear Materials and Facilities, which is presented by Sandia for the International Atomic Energy Agency. He was an instructor for the Risk Assessment Methodology for Water Utilities (RAM-WSM) Train-the-Trainer course presented by Sandia. Mr. Chritton has coordinated vulnerability assessments for numerous water, wastewater, chemical and federal facilities. He was lead instructor for the EPA-funded free vulnerability assessment and emergency response plan workshops being conducted for medium water systems, and was the EPA's lead reviewer for all water system VAs submitted to them per the requirements of the Bioterrorism Act of 2002.

Agenda

7:30 - 8:30am Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30 - 8:35am Welcome/Introduction

8:35 - 8:45am Chairman's Opening Remarks (Course Overview/Experience Based Learning)

8:45 - 9:45am ASAP Principle - Successful Execution of a Physical Security Program

• Learn the four bedrock security principles
• Eleven disciplines of security program success
• Sowing and reaping the results of inconsistency

9:45 - 9:55am Coffee Break

9:55 - 11:55am Adversarial Thinking and Execution

• Adversary types and techniques
• Planning and decoys
• Method of operations
• Objectives against government, public, and private sector
• Techniques used to circumvent security measures
• Terrorists Vulnerabilities - they're not invincible!

11:55 - 1:00pm Lunch On Your Own

1:00 - 2:00pm Paradigm Shifts in Security Awareness and Education

• Overcoming the “it won't happen to me" or "it won't happen here syndrome”
• Learning lessons from safety awareness programs

2:00 - 2:15pm Break

2:15 - 3:30pm Paradigm Shifts in Security Awareness and Education (continued)

• Terrorist threat detection training for your employees and security staff
• Drills and exercises that make a difference

3:30 - 3:40pm Break

3:40 - 4:15pm Community Risk Assessments and Collaborative Security

• Why your facility should not go it alone!
• Benefits of collaboration
• OPSEC and security collaboration

4:15 - 4:30pm Day One Wrap Up
 

Day Two

8:00 - 8:30am Continental Breakfast

8:30 - 9:30am What to Know BEFORE You Design a Physical Protection System

• Understand the facility's operations
• Identify WHAT you must protect
• Decide WHO is your Design Basis Threat
• Understand the balance of Detection, Delay, and Response
• Apply the Principle of Timely Detection
• Analyze the effectiveness of a system
• Recognize that Risk can be reduced in 2 ways:
• Decrease chances that adversary will succeed
• Decrease the Consequences of a successful attack

9:30 - 10:30am The Essential Elements of a Physical Protection System

• Detection
• Interior and Exterior Intrusion Sensors
• Entry Control
• Alarm Communication & Display
• CCTV Assessment
• Delay
• Standard barriers
• Activated barriers
• Response
   

10:30 - 10:45am Break
 

10:45 - 11:30am Procedures, Action Cards, and Response

• Does your facility have good procedures and action cards
• Are your procedures “old fashioned?”
• Responding to sudden events
• Is your response “intuitive?”

11:30 - 12:00pm Technology and Physical Security

• What are the basic technologies your facility should have?
• Consistent and effective use of security technologies
• Are you too dependent on technology?
• How to determine return on investment for your facility
• Technology and hidden costs or hidden savings???
• Dynamics you should consider as technology comes to market

12:00 - 1:00pm Lunch on Your Own

1:00 - 2:15pm Security Manpower, Requirements, Equipment, Testing, and Readiness

• Are existing unarmed security forces meeting the challenge for today’s threats?
• What equipment does your security force really need?
• Learn how to effectively test security force readiness

2:15 - 2:30pm Break

2:30 - 3:15pm Integrated Safeguards and Security- Making It All Work Right; Most of the Time

• Learn effective practices for integrated safeguards and security programs

3:15 - 3:30pm Workshop Wrap Up - Where Do We Go From Here?

Series Sponsor

CH2M HILL is an employee-owned global firm providing engineering, construction and operations services to public and private clients. We have more than 14,400 employees working in 168 offices worldwide. CH2M HILL is trusted to secure the world’s critical infrastructure including 50 defense installations, 4 large nuclear complexes, more than 100 water and wastewater utilities, private sector facilities, major ports and airports.

Telemus Solutions is a global security consulting and intelligence advisory services provider. We are well into our second decade of advising private companies and government agencies in the global marketplace.

Telemus Solutions provides customized security consulting, advisory, research and training services to both public and private sector markets throughout the world. Our company headquarters is located in Falls Church, Virginia, just outside of Washington, D.C., with branch offices in Boston and Miami.
 

Media Sponsors

The Homeland Defense Journal is free to government managers and decision-makers! Visit us at www.homelanddefensejournal.com


 

Organizational Sponsors

INPUT is the essential market intelligence resource for companies doing business with government. INPUT provides market development services, advisory services, and software solutions to help clients secure new business, address new markets, and manage business development. For more information about INPUT, visit www.input.com or call (703) 707-3500.

Founded in 1988, the Wireless Communications Association, International (WCA) is the principal non-profit trade association representing the wireless broadband industry. WCA membership, which includes the industry's leading carriers, vendors and consultants, has grown to over 530 member companies spanning six continents.

The WCA organizes the world's largest annual business conference and exhibition devoted exclusively to wireless broadband. This conference and exhibition annually convenes experts from around the world to discuss market strategies, emerging technologies, new applications and financing/regulatory options.

Medical Planning Resources, Inc. provides consultative services for medically managing the threats associated with complex emergencies, natural and man-made disasters and asymmetrical events. Medical Planning Resources is dedicated to the mission of providing expert medical advice to help Prepare, Respond, and Recover from Complex Emergencies, Disasters, and Asymmetrical Threats…Worldwide.

Become a Sponsor


If you would like to become a sponsor at this Homeland Defense Training Course, please download and complete our set of sponsor forms.  (Forms require Acrobat Reader.)  For more information on sponsor/exhibitor arrangements, please contact Cara Lombardi, (703) 807-2743.

Registration Fee

• Industry - $795 per person
• Small Business (100 employees or less) - $745 per person
• Government - $695 per person

Includes refreshments and continental breakfast on both days and your course handouts.

Please note that online registration for this event is now closed. However, we have a few spots left open for onsite registration. Simply bring your payment and the completed attached registration form with you to the registration desk.
 

Registrations are payable by Visa, Mastercard, American Express, company check or government purchase order.

CANCELLATION POLICY: You may designate a substitute in writing any time before the conference. If you need to cancel your registration, you must send your notice in writing and will be subject to a $50 processing fee. No refunds are given for cancellations received 3 business days prior to the conference start date or later.

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Hotel Information

The conference will be held at the Executive Conference Center, NRECA (National Rural Electric Coop Assn) Headquarters Building, 4301 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22203. The Conference Center is one block from the Ballston Metro stop on the orange line.

Map and directions to the conference location

Nearby hotels include:

Hilton Arlington Towers, (703) 528-6000 (one block from conference site)
Comfort Inn Ballston, (703) 247-3399 (four blocks from conference site)
Quality Inn Courthouse Plaza, (703) 524-4000
Holiday Inn, (703) 243-9800 (three blocks from conference site)
 

Contact Us

• For registration information, contact Pamela Greenstein, (703) 807-2758
• For information on exhibitor or sponsor arrangements, contact Cara Lombardi, (703) 807-2743
• For general information about this workshop, contact Laura Johnson, (703) 807-2747

If you have any questions about Homeland Defense Journal events in general, please see our Event FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions).


On-Site Training

Can't Make These Dates? Unable To Travel? Have a Large Staff to Train?

Homeland Defense Journal can provide physical security and emergency management training, wherever and whenever you need, including on-site at your facility. Our staff will cost-effectively implement training customized to your needs. If you have group of attendees (usually 15 or more), we can bring this course to you and help save you time, travel costs, and more!
 

To request a proposal and schedule training, e-mail Laura Johnson, Director of Conferences & Strategic Planning, at ljohnson@marketaccess.org or call (703) 807-2747.
 

Other Dates/Locations

Can't make these dates? We'll also be offering this workshop September 15-16 in Dallas, Texas. (Please click on the link for more information.)
 

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