"Maximizing the Security Effectiveness of People"
January 2010 CASE™ to work on third Transportation Research Board Research Project. Countermeasures Assessment & Security Experts has been awarded a sub-contract by Synthosys LLC of Camden NJ to provided legal research and assistance. The team will be developing a guide that provides pre-event recovery planning principles, processes and tools for use by planners and decision makers in pre-event planning to support transportation infrastructure recovery.
January 2010 CASE™ President Ron Frazier has been re-appointed under contract to serve as a subject matter expert for the DHS S&T Tech Solutions Program. The program was established by DHS to provide information, resources and technology solutions that address mission capability gaps identified by the emergency response community.
January 2010 CASE™ continues to work with DHS-ICE on a sub-contract to modernize training for E-Verify and SAVE system users. Working with prime contractor, Technical Solutions and Maintenance, Inc. (Alexandria VA) and Homeland Security Verification, LLC (Wilmington DE), Countermeasures Assessment and Security Experts is participating as a lead trainer and legal review expert in conjunction with a three year 1.7M IDIQ training modernization contract for the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
CASE™ President Ron Frazier on two occasions has been hired as a prime contractor by the National Academy of Sciences Transportation Research Board to conduct transportation security related research. Two textbooks, Passenger Transportation Security Inspections: A Guide for Policy Decision Makers (2007) and Security 101: A Physical Security Primer for Transportation Agencies (2009) relevant to surface transportation security was authored and subsequently published.
December 2009 CASE concludes prime contracts with the Belt Railway of Chicago, Terminal Railroad Company Association of Saint Louis, and the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad. CASE™ consultants conducted relative risk vulnerability assessment using the Analytical Risk Management methodology. This included infrastructure examination; the identification and ranking of all critical assets; and threat, vulnerability and consequence assessments. Security planning involved the identification of security countermeasures; integrated and layered security systems; and the provision of security action plans consisting of security steps to be taken based on changes in the railroad industry security plan, cross referenced against the DHS color coded threat system.
November 2009 CASE™ concludes a sub-contract for the Port Authority of NYNJ on a 1M Security planning contract. CASE™ employees worked as security sub-consultants conducting relative risk analysis; ranking of critical asset inventories; applied threat analysis using scenario based planning; security planning and cost benefit analysis. CASE™ principal investigator Ron Frazier was the Subject Matter expert for the TBT (Tunnels, Bridges and Terminals Line Department developing site security plans for the Port Authority Bus Station, George Washington Bridges, Goethals Bridge, Outerbridge Crossing, Lincoln Tunnel and Holland Tunnel. CASE™ consultants also provided assistance to PANYNJ's Aviation Line Department at LaGuardia and Kennedy airports.
December 2009 DHS makes an additional 15M available to freight railroads under the FY10 FRSGP. The Department of Homeland Security gave notice to the railroad industry of the continuation for a third year of grant funding opportunities for the performance of vulnerability assessments, security plans, training of front line employees and certain critical infrastructure upgrades. GPS tracking devices are also qualified for purchase under the grant program. Not all railroads are eligible. Additional eligibility criteria apply. For more information contact CASE or go to http://www.fema.gov
December 18, 2009 CASE™ closes FY09 FRSGP contract deals. Twelve additional Short Line Railroads, among them the Indiana Railroad Co, Morristown & Erie, Florida East Coast, Indiana and Ohio, Richmond Pacific, DGNO, Missouri and Northern Arkansas and California Northern have signed contracts with Countermeasures Assessment & Security Experts in an effort to leverage FY09 federal grant funds made available for enhancements to freight railroad security. The contracts with CASE™ are to conduct vulnerability assessments and develop security plans. Contracts are pending with an additional five railroads.
