The Program Security Management (PSM) course is focused on mid-level security professionals with four to eight years of experience, who have been selected to advance but need more knowledge and specialized training than they can get in on the job training. The course focuses on methods that allow students to increase their productivity and value to their companies and the programs they administer and protect. The course employs presentations, interactive discussion and group case studies designed to challenge students to apply what they’ve learned. Students develop security plans, protection strategies and architectures for complex government programs based on real life scenarios.
Mid-level security professionals.
Mr. Art Davis has been actively involved in US government security programs for some 40 years. He entered active duty in the US Air Force in 1968 as a Security Police officer and thus began a security career that has continued to develop in both the government and private sectors.
After an initial security assignment in the Strategic Air Command, followed by a wartime assignment in DaNang, Vietnam and Thailand, in 1973, Art was assigned to the National Reconnaissance Office. He first served as a Program Security Officer and oversaw the Air Force’s portion of the NRO’s personnel security program. In 1978 he became the Deputy Director of Security on the NRO Staff, in the Pentagon. There his duties involved coordinating security policies and procedures for the three operational arms of the NRO, as well as for the rest of NRO activities worldwide.
In 1984 Art headed back to Los Angeles, this time as Director of Policy and Security in the NRO’s West Coast office. His security responsibilities now included launch activities at Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg Air Force Bases, as well as numerous other activities and sites throughout the nation. Art returned to Washington, D. C. in 1990, this time to create the newly authorized NRO Security Center. The Center merged three disparate cultures: CIA, Air Force and Contractor, into a well-disciplined, enthusiastic, customer-oriented organization, focused on the evolving physical, technical and information security environment. To help people anticipate the changes within the security world, the Center also created the premier security training program within the Intelligence Community. Art ultimately became the Deputy Director of NRO Security and retired from the Air Force in April, 1998.
Art joined Trident Data Systems in April, 1998, and was named President in August, 1998. Trident was acquired by Veridian in September, 1999, and Veridian was acquired by General Dynamics in August 2003. After a year at LexisNexis, Art joined NANA Development Corporation in March, 2006, and in October, 2006, Art was asked to start SAVA, LLC, a security services company within NANA’s Qivliq family of companies, providing security services to the Intelligence Community, DoD, and to other federal customers.
Art has his BS and MA, both from San Diego State University in Public Administration and has taken Executive Courses at American University, USC, and the Wharton School, at the University of PA.
