Over the past year, Atlas Research entered dynamic new territory with a contract to support the Department of Defense (DoD) Center for Development of Security Excellence (CDSE). In an ever-changing security landscape, CDSE provides security education, training, certification, and professional development for DoD and other U.S. government personnel, contractor employees, and representatives of foreign governments.
Atlas is helping CDSE achieve its mission by collaboratively developing performance-based learning solutions in the core security disciplines. Atlas teamed with C2 Technologies to win this five-year engagement under the Human Capital and Training Solutions (HCaTS) contract vehicle, which federal agencies use to order complex human capital and training services.
The Atlas team was selected for its security-related subject matter experts, who bring 25 years of combined experience in supporting CDSE before joining Atlas. This expertise allowed Atlas to hit the ground running with broad knowledge of CDSE’s extensive portfolio of offerings and the large, diverse security community it serves, spanning 31 federal agencies and more than 13,000 cleared contractor facilities. CDSE provides security education, training, certification and professional development for DoD and other U.S. government personnel at all levels of authority; for contract employees; and for representatives of foreign governments.
The engagement’s first year includes the following high-profile projects:
- Aligning the vast CDSE training portfolio to current security policy and making recommendations to address any identified gaps.
- Recommending training on workplace violence prevention, assistance, and response capabilities.
- Designing a five-day instructor-led course to teach physical security professionals to think critically and manage risks associated with protecting DoD assets.
“In the security world, new issues and threats emerge constantly and security professionals need to be able to jump in and address them," said Senior Learning Strategist Renée O'Brien. "We’re designing solutions that get people to think critically and apply what they learn—so they can quickly adapt to what could happen not what has already happened.”