​Protection Led by Proven Operators

Salus protects people, facilities, operations, information, and movement in the United States and internationally.

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Our personnel include former federal agents, military officers, police commanders, investigators, intelligence professionals, SWAT

commanders, aviation-security leaders, hostage negotiators, and licensed protection professionals.

They have protected senior government officials, corporate executives, critical-infrastructure leaders, public figures, facilities, transportation systems, major events, and sensitive operations across six continents.

 

Understand the threat. Control the exposure. Protect the mission.

 

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The Bottom Line

 

Protective operations are not about looking important.

 

They are about preventing predictable problems, recognizing developing threats, controlling exposure, and responding decisively when conditions change.

 

A protective team must understand:

• Who or what is being protected

• The threats and hazards that matter

• The operating environment

• Routes, venues, schedules, and vulnerabilities

• Local security and emergency resources

• Medical, communications, and evacuation contingencies

• Who has authority to make decisions

• What happens when the original plan fails

 

Salus brings these elements together.

 

Experience You Cannot Manufacture

 

Salus personnel have:

• Led executive and diplomatic protection in the United States and internationally.

• Supported presidential-protection activities with the United States Secret Service.

• Led protection for a former United States Secretary of Defense for more than a decade.

• Commanded SWAT operations during presidential and vice-presidential visits.

• Supervised protective details and special-threat assignments across the United States, Central Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and South America.

• Led federal aviation-security and Federal Air Marshal operations.

• Directed FBI counterterrorism, intelligence, national-security, cybercrime, and complex investigative programs.

• Conducted Department of Homeland Security red-team assessments at national-security locations and events.

• Commanded airport police, airport security, and emergency-management operations.

• Led protective operations for major political events, championship sporting events, government facilities, transportation systems, and critical infrastructure.

• Conducted protective intelligence, threat assessment, investigations, crisis negotiation, and behavioral-threat work.

• Supported high-risk operations following the United States withdrawal from Afghanistan.

• Coordinated executive protection, security, intelligence, logistics, and operational support across North America, Central and South America, the Caribbean, and the Middle East.

 

This is not a roster assembled for marketing.

 

These are the people who plan and support Salus operations.

 

Proven Leadership Behind Every Mission

 

Executive and International Protection

 

Wayne Black has more than 45 years of experience in security, investigations, law enforcement, and protective operations.

 

For more than a decade, he served as Security Advisor and Protection Detail Lead for former Secretary of Defense Donald H.

 

Rumsfeld and the Rumsfeld Foundation. He has supervised protective details and special-threat assignments across the United States, Central Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and South America.

 

Following September 11, he supervised classified Department of Homeland Security red-team assessments at national-security locations and events. He has also conducted federal security assessments at United States seaports and served in organized-crime, public-corruption, and federal task-force assignments.

 

Federal Law Enforcement and Aviation Security

 

Scott Pickett brings nearly four decades of experience in federal law enforcement, aviation security, firearms intelligence, investigations, behavioral recognition, critical infrastructure, and executive protection.

 

He held senior responsibilities with ATF, the Federal Air Marshal Service, and the Transportation Security Administration, including service as an Assistant Special Agent in Charge.

 

His protective experience includes sensitive deployments involving senior government officials and support to presidential-protection activities in coordination with the United States Secret Service. He is a licensed peace officer, licensed diplomatic and executive protection officer, licensed private investigator, and Certified Forensic Interviewer.

 

Special Operations Command

 

Bradley Amstutz brings more than 30 years of law-enforcement and special-operations experience.

 

As a SWAT commander, he coordinated protective activities for presidential and vice-presidential visits and other senior officials.

 

He directed or supported operations involving national political events, professional championship events, government facilities, airports, nuclear facilities, schools, universities, transportation systems, and major public venues.

 

His experience includes tactical command, investigations, field operations, training, crisis intervention, and the supervision of specialized personnel.

 

Protective Intelligence and Global Coordination

 

Marc Duncan leads Salus protective operations and Station Managers supporting missions throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean, and the Middle East.

 

His work includes executive and diplomatic protection, intelligence, counterterrorism preparedness, investigations, aviation security, disaster operations, and support within high-risk international environments.

 

He is a licensed diplomatic and executive protection professional, licensed private investigator, firearms instructor, and operational leader with more than three decades of experience.

 

Crisis Judgment and Domestic Operations

 

Joe Waring, CPP, supports domestic executive protection, protective intelligence, investigations, advance work, logistics, liaison, and incident response.

 

His law-enforcement background includes supervision, hostage negotiation, crisis intervention, mental-health response, peer support, and critical-incident operations. He served on the board of the Texas Association of Hostage Negotiators and is a licensed protection and investigative professional.

 

That background matters because protection is not always about physical intervention. Often, the best outcome depends on recognizing behavior, establishing communication, de-escalating the situation, and preventing the confrontation.

 

Protective Services

 

Executive and Dignitary Protection

Salus provides discreet protection tailored to the person, threat, schedule, location, and operating environment.

 

Support may include:

• Personal protection

• Executive and dignitary protection

• Residential and workplace protection

• Event and venue protection

• Travel security

• Protective drivers

• Movement coordination

• Family and staff security

• Temporary and continuing protective assignments

 

The protection plan is built around the mission—not around a standard package.

 

Protective Intelligence

 

Protection begins before the detail moves.

 

Salus professionals evaluate information that may affect the protected person or mission, including:

• Direct and indirect threats

• Fixated or hostile behavior

• Grievances and escalating disputes

• Workplace and insider concerns

• Public exposure

• Event and travel conditions

• Local security developments

• Impersonation and social-engineering activity

• Threats communicated through associates or family members

• Changes in intent, capability, access, or proximity

 

Information is reviewed by experienced professionals and placed in operational context.

 

Threat and Vulnerability Assessment

 

We examine where exposure exists and what can be done about it.

 

Assessments may address:

• Residences

• Offices and facilities

• Events and venues

• Travel routes

• Hotels and temporary locations

• Transportation

• Public appearances

• Access control

• Staffing and procedures

• Emergency response

• Medical support

• Communications

• Cyber-physical dependencies

• Insider access

• Local support resources

 

We identify practical vulnerabilities without exposing sensitive protective details unnecessarily.

 

Advance Work

 

The advance establishes the conditions for the mission.

 

Depending on the assignment, Salus evaluates:

• Routes and alternate routes

• Arrival and departure points

• Venue access

• Holding and secure areas

• Emergency exits

• Local medical capability

• Police, fire, EMS, and security coordination

• Communications

• Transportation

• Crowd and protest conditions

• Weather and environmental conditions

• Evacuation and relocation options

• Contingencies for delay, disruption, or loss of support

 

Good advance work reduces surprises. It does not assume they can be eliminated.

 

Security Personnel and Protective Teams

 

Salus can develop and coordinate teams for:

• Executive protection

• Armed and unarmed security

• Special events

• Facilities and critical operations

• Transportation and movement

• Temporary elevated-threat conditions

• Incident and crisis support

• Emergency augmentation

• Investigative and intelligence support

 

Personnel are selected for the mission, jurisdiction, threat level, and operating environment.

 

Investigations and Threat Management

 

A protective concern may require more than a visible security presence.

 

Salus can support:

• Threat investigations

• Background and due-diligence inquiries

• Workplace-violence concerns

• Insider-threat matters

• Behavioral-threat assessment

• Fraud and misconduct investigations

• Suspicious-contact review

• Intelligence collection and analysis

• Law-enforcement liaison

• Evidence and incident documentation

 

Protective operations, intelligence, and investigations remain connected throughout the assignment.

 

How Salus Operates

 

Intelligence Before Movement

 

We identify what is known, what is changing, what remains uncertain, and what could affect the mission.

 

Advance Before Arrival

 

We examine the environment, establish coordination, confirm resources, and develop contingencies before exposure begins.

 

Discipline During the Mission

 

The team remains focused on the protected person, operating environment, communications, timing, and changes that may require action.

 

Command When Conditions Change

 

When the plan no longer fits the situation, experienced leadership matters. Salus personnel understand command, coordination, escalation, and rapid decision-making.

 

Reporting After the Mission

 

Relevant observations, incidents, changes, and lessons are documented. That information strengthens the next protective plan and, when appropriate, informs SalINTEL, SalTHIRA, and the Protected Member’s continuing operating picture.

 

Quiet, Disciplined, and Accountable

 

Professional protection should support the principal’s work—not become the center of attention.

 

Salus emphasizes:

• Discretion

• Preparation

• Professional appearance and conduct

• Clear authority

• Reliable communications

• Operational discipline

• Proportionate response

• Coordination with local resources

• Accurate reporting

• Respect for the protected person and organization

 

There is no room for ego on a protective assignment.

 

The mission comes first.

 

We Will Tell You What the Mission Requires

 

Salus will not provide false reassurance.

 

If the threat requires more personnel, better intelligence, a route change, additional coordination, a schedule adjustment, stronger access control, or cancellation of an activity, we will say so.

 

If the requirement can be handled with a smaller and less intrusive posture, we will say that too.

 

Our responsibility is to provide an honest operational judgment and the capability needed to carry it out.

 

Protection That Performs

 

Salus protective operations are backed by people who have commanded tactical units, federal investigations, aviation-security programs, international details, crisis negotiations, disaster operations, and protection for senior government and corporate leaders.

 

We understand that protective operations can change in seconds.

 

We prepare accordingly.

 

No theater. No complacency. No preventable surprises.

 

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