Project Overview

Professional Systems Engineering, LLC (PSE) has over 20 years experience providing comprehensive professional engineering, design, and consulting services in security, particularly for utility and government agency clients throughout the U.S. The firm’s depth of expertise is measurable in the great number of our designs in current operation, which total several hundred and equal over $2 billion in construction costs.

PSE conducted a comprehensive security survey and high level risk/threat assessment of each PEPCO property specified by PEPCO, including all structures and their interiors, other improvements and facilities, the property perimeter, and the property immediately surrounding perimeters. This included a homeland security based threat assessment and risk mitigation recommendation plan for over 25 locations.

PSE’s services encompassed a comprehensive management-oriented physical security survey and risk/threat assessment for representative substation properties and facilities.

PSE provided the following:

  • Analyzed the security requirements for each site to achieve adequate and cost-effective protection for facilities, equipment, and personnel
  • Assessed adequacy of existing site security installations and systems in regard to the requirements
  • Determined the existing risk with current security systems
  • Provided recommendations concerning the security organization, operations, procedures, and security guard force composition
  • Provided cost and benefit analysis

The emergency designs included:

  • Card access control
  • Perimeter surveillance
  • Intrusion detection
  • Physical control
  • Enterprise access considerations