Chameleon signed a teaming agreement with Chartrand Fortin Labelle Solutions inc. (CFL) a Quebec based consulting firm specialized in public and corporate security. Under the new agreement CFL will translate and deliver Chameleon courses to the French Speaking market.

Last week (June 22-23, 2010), CFL and Chameleon jointly delivered a Predictive Profiling and Security Questioning seminar in Laval, Quebec. The seminar was a great success and it was attended by government and corporate security officials from across Canada. The audience received practical tools to assist them in the implementation of a Predictive Profiling based security system. A system that makes extensive use of security questioning, red teaming and adversarial thinking to maintain a high level of efficiency and effectiveness.

Clients who seek Chameleon Courses in French should contact CFL or Chameleon Associates for more information.

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Chameleon Associates provided the US Army 5/2 Stryker Brigade with Predictive Profiling and Field Intelligence Training as part of their Language Enabled Soldier Program. Parts of the training were conducted in Arabic.  The training provided soldiers with tools to identify suspicion indicators in high risk environments. Here is the case study for the LES program which includes Predictive Profiling training as presented by Col. Tunnell, Commander of the 5/2 Stryker Brigade:

http://www.chameleonassociates.com/Predictive_Profiling_LES_US_Army.pdf

Predictive Profiling becomes especially important to a soldier working in an environment that is not familiar to him. Predictive Profiling is much easier when one knows the norms in his surroundings, but when facing am unfamiliar culture, language and environment Profiling becomes a lot harder. This is exactly the situation a soldier facesbeing deployed in Afghanistan or Iraq. Predictive Profiling is as much a counter insurgency tool as it is counterterrorist or security methofology.

The BBC2 has this month released a new documentary called How safe are our Skies? Detroit Flight 253, about the failed Christmas Terrorist Bombing on Northwest Airlines. Chameleon’s Amotz Brandes is featured in the documentary. As we all know, on Christmas Day 2009, a 23-year-old passenger on Northwest airlines attempted to detonate a device containing military-grade explosive PETN, while on descent into Detroit International Airport.  This excellent production includes eyewitness testimony and in-depth expert analysis on how the bomber Umar Abdulmutallab slipped under intelligence radar and evaded three sets of airport security.  It traces Abdulmutallab’s student days in London, his time spent with Al Qaeda in Yemen, and his journey to the USA.  The documentary attempts to understand what security services knew about him before he boarded?  What would have happened to the plane if the bomb had detonated?   What lessons have we learned and how safe is it to fly, today?  This documentary is timely, interesting and provocative – worth a look.

To view the entire documentary on youtube lick here

Security Questioning is one of our most popular course modules.  Everyone wants more of it.  In response to the demand, we are coming out with a new Advanced Security Questioning course.  It will focus on enhancing students’ communication skills when interacting with suspicious people and situation.  Security Questioning is the most effective tool in a security system, given the fact that it is the only offensive tool.  Regardless of the security system you may have in place, all elements of that system are defensive.  For example, the x-ray machine detects the tools used by an attacker.  In contrast, questioning puts the attacker on the defensive and you on the offensive.

The course features an advanced forms of security questioning which includes undercover questioning, conducting investigative interviews (applies to internal security incidents such as potential fraud or info leaks), and questioning for HR screening.

For those of you who have taken our predictive Profiling class, this course is a natural next step.  It supports the “determine” factor in the detect-determine-deploy proactive security process.  Our next  open seminar in Advanced Security Questioning, is in Phoenix, AZ on April 27 – 28.

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We are is pleased to announce the launch of our new Predictive Profiling Online Course. This very interactive course allows students to learn about the science behind the art of Predictive Profiling. The course is filled with interactive sessions, quizzes and other exciting learning tools. It is available under an individual license or an annual organizational license.

We are planning to create more interactive online courses in the months to come and build on the success we currently have with Predictive Profiling Course.

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Chameleon Associates is pleased to announce that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has selected WSI for the award of the NASA Protective Services Contract (NPSC).  Chameleon will be working with WSI under this nationwide, agency-wide contract providing quality assurance, quality control and site security surveys.

This new contract is a single agency-wide contract to perform fire services, security services, emergency management, export control, protective services training and protective services information assurance and information technology security. This contract will assure standardization of procedures and provide an integrated response to security threats as well as natural emergencies for greater overall program efficiencies at 14 NASA locations (including the Kennedy Space Center, Titusville, Florida, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, Johnson Space Center , Houston, Texas, White Sands Test Facility, Las Cruces, New Mexico, and NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California).

Chameleon Associates is a part of a WSI team that includes the following sub-contractors: Chenega Security and Protective Services, Virginia; Professional Solutions, Virginia; SecureState, Ohio; SAIC, Virginia; NetGain, Tennessee; Explosive Countermeasures International, Virginia; Decision Engineering, Virginia; EASI, Texas; NEI, Texas; and Rede Inc., Louisiana. The initial total value for a possible 10-year period is approximately $1.2 billion.

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