HMS COMPANY

HMS is a professional services firm, experienced in providing valued-added program management, operational, and information technical services within the public safety, homeland defense, and emergency management sector. Headquartered in Fairfax Virginia, HMS has a satellite office in Kentucky and North Carolina, and project offices throughout the Mid-Atlantic Region. Certified 8a, HMS is a veteran provider of value-added mission critical services for personnel/asset/infrastructure protection from criminal or terrorist’s activity with a commitment to providing varied security solutions, training and technical/administrative support as evidenced by our successful record of high quality performance.

TOTAL SECURITY SERVICES INTERNATIONAL, INC. (TSSI)

Total Security Services International, Inc. has special expertise in vulnerability and threat assessment, security planning, anti-terrorism planning and training, transportation security, and infrastructure security products for safeguarding America's public and private institutions.

Through decades of work combating violence and terrorism, Total Security Services International, Inc. personnel have gained the knowledge necessary to see into the minds of terrorists, understand their methods of attack, and deploy methods that deter, mitigate, and defeat terrorist operations. Total Security Services International, Inc. personnel possess credentials from America's most elite organizations including the Delta Force, FBI Hostage Rescue Team, CIA Counter-Terrorism Center, White House Staff, DOT, and DOD.

OOIDA

The Owner Operator Independent Drivers Association, Inc. is the largest international trade association representing the interests of independent owner-operators, small business motor carriers and professional drivers. The more than 160,000 members of OOIDA are professional drivers and small business men and women located in all 50 states and Canada who collectively own and operate more than 250,000 individual heavy-duty trucks and small truck fleets. One-truck motor carriers represent nearly half the total number of active motor carriers operating in the United States as such; OOIDA presents TSA with a significant opportunity to engage a critical community. OOIDA will support this program in the Outreach, Recruiting and Registration and training areas.

TEAMSTER

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) a Team HMS partner who has direct access to over one million working members in the highway community. Teamster workers are uniquely placed throughout the nations supply chain. These workers include a full range of truck drivers in freight operations, school and passenger buses, highway construction, port operations, automobile transporters, food delivery and parcel delivery. They are also placed as toll booth workers, warehouse workers, car rental agencies, support services in schools, law enforcement, first responders and much more. The Teamsters have affiliate offices in nearly 500 locations throughout the country to support First Observer.

PATTON BOGGS

For more than 40 years, Patton Boggs has maintained a reputation for cutting-edge advocacy by working closely with Congress and regulatory agencies in Washington, litigating in courts across the country, and negotiating business transactions around the world. Our partners include women and men with extensive backgrounds in government service with strong ties to both major political parties, as well as top-flight litigators and individuals with a keen understanding of business and finance.