Versar gets contract for FL reconstruction: Tell me about this company.

[madfloridian]

Wording my question another way, as I do realize local companies are overwhelmed. I guess I should ask if they are going to utilize laid-off Floridians or bring in their own people. In our county it is estimated over a thousand without jobs since Charley.

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/09-23-2004/0002257608&EDATE=

SPRINGFIELD, Va., Sept. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Versar, Inc. (Amex:
VSR) today announced that it was awarded a contract by Campbell Roofing and
Construction, Inc. The contract is to provide emergency repairs management,
health and safety, and administrative support for the Federal Emergency
Management Agency's (FEMA's) reconstruction efforts in response to the recent
Florida hurricanes. Versar/Campbell is providing these services under an
agreement with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, funded by FEMA.
Versar has mobilized employees from across the country, plus several
mobile command centers, to create an incident response center supporting over
500 persons providing temporary roofing and other construction support for
residential and commercial buildings in Florida.
Dr. Ted Prociv, President and CEO of Versar, stated, "Versar is proud to
support the reconstruction efforts in Florida in order to help Floridians
whose houses and businesses were damaged in the recent hurricanes. Our
ability to mobilize personnel and equipment resources from across the country
again demonstrate Versar's ability to respond to threats to America, whether
man-made or from natural disasters."

[freetobegay]

1. Call a local company in Fort Myers

& they will tell you that they can give you an appointment next year. Local companies here are swamped, As I would assume they are in other hit areas as well.

[bandy]

2. Not to mention -

you can't buy a roof tile, roofing nails, sheeting, or anything else to do with roofs anywhere in the state. All contractors are booked up and they bought up everthing they could as soon as the winds died down and before most realized they had a problem. I feel sorry for my neighbors with "blue roofs" and facing one maybe two more storms. Our boat house lost some tile but we're not going to worry about that right now. I'm sure after Jeanne it will be missing a lot more then tiles.

[sallydallas124]

3. Lots of good stuff here

Links to major players, their connections, etc
Ever heard of Dr Theodore Prociv? He's CEO.

http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Versar%2C_Inc.

[madfloridian]

4. Sounds like a homeland security agency to me.

Look at some of their subsidiaries.
Marsh USA, Inc., an MMC Company: one of world's largest insurance providers; brings political risk assessment, financial asset protection services, and business continuity planning services. Versar and Marsh are jointly conducting support efforts for customers in the industrial and commerical arena. Also see Marsh & McLennan Companies.
Holland and Knight: a major law firm involved in this developing area. Holland and Knight Investigative Services provides security engineering and consulting to a wide range of clients. Holland and Knight and Versar are jointly supporting customers in the private sector.
Brown and Caldwell: brings over 25 years of experience in water systems. Versar has a strategic relationship with B&C to expand the water and wastewater systems response to antiterrorism initiatives.
STERIS Corporation: a leading provider of sterilization services to industry and government. Versar and STERIS have conducted remediation programs involving biological contamination, and have entered a strategic agreement to continue to provide these services to customers.
The Centech Group, Inc.: a Versar partner supporting information technology security, and personal protection and decontamination systems.
Risk Management Planning (RMP): provides Indoor Air quality Modeling and Simulation for Chemical/Biological threats, and has supported threat modeling for the Versar Team.
T.G. O'Brian and Associates, Inc. (TGO): provides a full range of services including security policy development, threat assessments and threat scenario development, operations security assessments, and a cadre of hand-selected former special operations personnel, counterterrorism operatives, and investigators.
LVW Associates: a recognized expert in Energetics, Chemicals, Explosives, Combustion Issues, Engineering/Technology, and Environmental Impacts.

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"Our Homeland Defense Services represent experience gained over 15 years of support to DoD agencies involved with chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction, combined with the expertise of our experienced team of architects and engineers, risk assessors, modeling experts, air quality specialists, facility specialists, health and safety and hazardous materials specialists. We bring a unique combination of skills to help you effectively answer your questions and develop realistic solutions for homeland defense and military force protection."<20>
Federal Homeland Security Customers

[progressivebydesign]

5. Why are these things always out of Virginia? nt

[madfloridian]

6. Bio of Ted Prociv, CEO. Chemical Demilitarization...whatever that means.

http://www.centechgroup.com/about/advisory/prociv.html

SNIP..."Dr. Prociv was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Army (Chemical Demilitarization), Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Research, Development and Acquisition ). He was responsible for oversight of the entire US chemical weapons destruction program, a $14.9 billion life-cycle program, consisting of the chemical weapons stockpile disposal program, the alternative technologies and approaches project, and the non-stockpile (production facilities and equipment) disposal program. His duties included oversight of the Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment Program for the Army Acquisition Executive.

Dr. Prociv was responsible for oversight of all chemical and biological programs within the Office of the Secretary of Defense. His duties included formulation of policy and strategy for the implementation of the chemical demilitarization and the chemical and biological defense programs in support of national needs...."

[madfloridian]

7. Versar Awarded Biological Laboratory Project in Texas

I don't know why this company would be awarded reconstruction for Florida. Maybe I am naive, but I think we were right when we said here at DU that FEMA was now very much oriented toward Homeland Security.

http://www.homelanddefense.com/

Versar Awarded Biological Laboratory Project in Texas

Versar is one of the few companies that integrates chemical and biological expertise, engineering and architectural design and construction, and environmental skills. The US Air Force has recognized this skill set recently in announcing an award of a task order valued at approximately $750,000 from the U.S. Air Force for the construction of an Epidemic Outbreak Surveillance Advanced Diagnostics Laboratory at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. The laboratory will support the Air Force Surgeon General and Lackland AFB by utilizing advanced diagnostics for real- time identification for both common pathogens and bio-warfare agents. Completion date is June 30, 2004

Federal, Municipal, and private sector customers have turned to Versar for homeland defense services.

Our Homeland Defense Services represent experience gained over 20 years of support to DoD agencies involved with chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction, combined with the expertise of our experienced team of architects and engineers, risk assessors, modeling experts, air quality specialists, facility specialists, health and safety and hazardous materials specialists. We bring a unique combination of skills to help you effectively answer your questions and develop realistic solutions for homeland defense and military force protection.