​Restore the Mission. Fix What Failed. Stay Ready.

 

Response stops the immediate damage.

 

Recovery restores the operation.

 

Sustainment keeps it working.

 

Salus helps organizations restore essential functions, facilities, personnel, supply chains, communications, technology, logistics, and command capability after disruption.

 

Then we identify what failed, correct the cause, and build a stronger operation.

 

Restore. Stabilize. Correct. Sustain.

 

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The Bottom Line

 

Recovery is not a report, a meeting, or a return to the same weak condition that existed before the incident.

 

Recovery is an operation.

 

It requires:

• Clear priorities

• Command authority

• Accurate damage and capability assessments

• Personnel

• Facilities

• Equipment

• Technology

• Contractors

• Supply chains

• Funding

• Documentation

• Accountability

• Aggressive follow-through

 

Salus helps put those pieces together.

 

Experience Built Around Keeping Operations Alive

 

Salus personnel have:

• Led disaster-response and recovery operations in the United States, Caribbean, and international environments.

• Managed logistics, aviation, maintenance, supply, transportation, facilities, contracts, and base-support operations for more than 45 years.

• Developed and managed government infrastructure projects exceeding $20 million.

• Built energy and utility systems supporting United States Coast Guard facilities.

• Developed a Coast Guard energy-monitoring system using 1,960 meters across 220 facilities.

• Helped produce approximately $624,000 in annual federal energy savings.

• Developed renewable-energy capability producing approximately 9.7 million kilowatt-hours annually.

• Managed military and commercial supply chains, inventories, maintenance, transportation, and federal contracting.

• Led emergency aviation, evacuation, logistics, mass-care, and humanitarian operations.

• Managed financial, contractual, governance, and operational affairs for more than 20 domestic and international companies.

• Led FEMA continental United States air-operations planning and preparedness.

• Supported communities and organizations following floods, hurricanes, infrastructure disruption, and other disasters.

• Conducted root-cause analysis, corrective action, continuity planning, and operational improvement.

• Managed cybersecurity, data integration, technical systems, and large-scale information environments.

 

We understand that an operation does not recover because the immediate incident ended.

 

Someone must drive the recovery.

 

Operators Who Understand Restoration

 

Facilities, Utilities, and Infrastructure

 

Richard Eschenbach brings more than 30 years of experience in facilities engineering, construction, maintenance, energy management, and infrastructure.

 

He has developed and managed government projects ranging from daily maintenance to multimillion-dollar work involving electrical systems, HVAC, steam plants, underground utilities, industrial equipment, and major facility improvements.

 

At the United States Coast Guard Yard in Baltimore, he helped develop a nationwide electrical-metering system using 1,960 meters across 220 facilities. The program helped identify waste, verify energy savings, and reduce consumption by approximately $624,000 annually.

 

He also initiated a renewable-energy center that converted landfill methane into electricity and steam for Coast Guard operations.

 

By fiscal year 2010, the system was producing approximately 9.7 million kilowatt-hours of renewable electricity annually.

 

He understands how facilities fail, how dependencies cascade, and what it takes to restore sustainable capability.

 

Logistics, Supply, and Mission Support

 

Mario “Marty” Reyes brings more than 45 years of military and private-sector experience in aviation operations, logistics, maintenance, supply, transportation, contracting, and base support.

 

A retired United States Air Force officer and graduate of Air Command and Staff College, he served as a Logistics Officer, Supply Officer, Flight Commander, and Officer Training School instructor.

 

His career has centered on keeping large operations functioning: managing people, equipment, facilities, inventories, maintenance, contracts, transportation, and supply chains.

 

He applies root-cause analysis and corrective-action processes to determine why something failed, correct the problem, and prevent recurrence.

 

Finance, Contracts, and Organizational Continuity

 

Bridget Lee-Young, CPA, has more than three decades of financial and operational leadership experience.

 

She has managed the financial and contractual affairs of more than 20 companies operating in the United States and internationally. Her experience includes budgeting, cash management, controls, contracts, staffing, insurance, governance, systems implementation, supply chains, and organizational restructuring.

 

Recovery cannot be sustained without financial control, reliable contracts, accountable spending, and disciplined resource allocation.

 

Bridget understands how to keep operational priorities connected to the organization’s financial reality.

 

Technology and Data

 

Don Cahoon brings more than three decades of experience in data analytics, software engineering, cybersecurity, remote sensing, and advanced technology.

 

His career includes NASA research using satellite observations to detect and map wildland fires across vast geographic areas and engineering leadership at Symantec.

 

At Salus, he supports technology, cybersecurity, data integration, analysis, and visualization—turning complex information into an operating picture leaders and technical personnel can use.

 

Recovery requires knowing what is working, what is damaged, what data can be trusted, and what must be restored first.

 

What SalOPS Provides

 

Damage and Operational Assessment

 

We determine what happened and what capability remains.

 

Assessment may include:

• People and staffing

• Facilities

• Utilities

• Equipment

• Transportation

• Communications

• Information systems

• Cybersecurity

• Supply chains

• Contractors and vendors

• Records and data

• Financial impacts

• Regulatory obligations

• Community and public-service dependencies

 

We identify immediate problems, hidden dependencies, temporary workarounds, and conditions that could cause another failure.

 

Restoration Priorities

 

Not everything can be restored at once.

 

Salus helps determine:

• What must operate immediately

• What can remain degraded temporarily

• What dependencies control restoration

• Which resources are scarce

• Where competing demand may delay recovery

• What temporary capability is acceptable

• What must be repaired, replaced, relocated, or redesigned

• What leadership decisions are required

 

The objective is to restore the mission—not simply repair the most visible damage.

 

Continuity and Temporary Operations

 

When the original operating environment is unavailable, Salus helps establish alternate capability.

 

Support may address:

• Alternate facilities

• Temporary command locations

• Remote or distributed operations

• Temporary utilities

• Backup communications

• Manual procedures

• Alternate transportation

• Emergency staffing

• Contractor augmentation

• Temporary security

• Temporary equipment

• Data access and recovery

• Essential-record protection

• Vendor substitution

 

Temporary operations must be safe, controlled, and sustainable for as long as they are needed.

 

Logistics and Resource Coordination

 

Recovery consumes resources quickly.

 

Salus can support:

• Personnel

• Equipment

• Transportation

• Fuel

• Lodging

• Communications

• Contractors

• Repair services

• Replacement equipment

• Supplies

• Warehousing and staging

• Procurement

• Documentation and tracking

• Air and surface movement

 

We account for damaged infrastructure, long lead times, regional competition, vendor failure, restricted access, and changing priorities.

 

Facilities and Infrastructure Restoration

 

Recovery support may include:

• Facility damage assessment

• Utility restoration coordination

• Electrical and mechanical systems

• HVAC and environmental control

• Water and wastewater

• Fire and life safety

• Temporary repairs

• Engineering support

• Preventive maintenance

• Construction and repair oversight

• Energy resilience

• Critical-equipment replacement

• Contractor coordination

• Restoration sequencing

 

A building is not operational simply because people can enter it.

 

Technology and Information Recovery

 

Salus helps organizations examine:

• System availability

• Data integrity

• Backup viability

• Cyber compromise

• Communications

• Cloud services

• Vendor dependencies

• Identity and access

• Operational technology

• Manual workarounds

• Restoration order

• Evidence preservation

• Post-restoration monitoring

 

Restoring a compromised or unreliable system without understanding the failure can recreate the incident.

 

Financial and Contractual Recovery

 

Operational recovery must be funded, documented, and controlled.

 

Support may include:

• Cost tracking

• Emergency purchasing

• Contract review

• Vendor performance

• Insurance documentation

• Funding requirements

• Resource prioritization

• Financial controls

• Invoice and expense review

• Procurement accountability

• Recovery budgets

• Documentation supporting reimbursement or claims

 

Speed matters. So does control.

 

Correct What Failed

 

After-Action Review

 

We identify:

• What happened

• What worked

• What failed

• What was improvised

• What information was missing

• What decisions were delayed

• What resources were unavailable

• What dependencies were misunderstood

• What caused avoidable consequences

• What must change

 

The purpose is improvement—not blame protection or report production.

 

Root-Cause Analysis

 

The visible failure is not always the real cause.

 

We examine whether the problem originated in:

• Leadership

• Authority

• Planning

• Staffing

• Training

• Maintenance

• Communications

• Technology

• Procurement

• Contractor performance

• Supply chains

• Culture

• Oversight

• Funding

• Unresolved earlier findings

 

Replacing broken equipment will not fix a management failure. Rewriting a plan will not fix poor training. Conducting another exercise will not fix absent authority.

 

We identify the cause before recommending the correction.

 

Corrective Action

 

Every meaningful corrective action should have:

• A defined problem

• A responsible owner

• A required outcome

• A priority

• Resources

• A completion date

• Evidence of completion

• A method for verifying performance

 

A recommendation without ownership is only a suggestion.

 

A lesson without corrective action is not a lesson learned.

 

Sustain the Capability

 

Recovery is not complete when normal operations resume.

 

Temporary repairs remain. Personnel are exhausted. Deferred work accumulates. Vendors change. Equipment ages. Procedures drift.

 

New risks appear.

 

Salus helps organizations sustain capability through:

• Continuing readiness reviews

• Maintenance and inspection

• Training and exercises

• Plan updates

• Corrective-action tracking

• Personnel qualification

• Vendor and contractor review

• Resource verification

• Intelligence and operating-environment updates

• Capability reassessment

• Leadership reporting

 

SalCAPA maintains the record of findings, decisions, assignments, progress, evidence, and unresolved risk. SalINTEL identifies relevant changes. SalTHIRA reassesses risk and capability. SalOPS helps implement and sustain the work.

 

We Do Not Declare Victory Early

 

Salus will not call an operation recovered because:

• The power came back

• The building reopened

• The immediate danger passed

• Temporary equipment is functioning

• A contractor completed a repair

• A report was issued

• Leadership held a meeting

 

Recovery is complete when the required capability is restored, tested, documented, and sustainable.

 

Build Back Capable

 

Recovery should not restore yesterday’s weakness.

 

It should produce a stronger operation with clearer authority, better information, tested contingencies, corrected dependencies, and people who are ready for the next disruption.

 

Salus brings operators, engineers, logisticians, emergency managers, financial leaders, investigators, intelligence professionals, and technical specialists together around that mission.

 

Restore the operation. Fix the cause. Prove the capability.

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