Federal Contractor Workplace Violence Prevention
When you won the contract you also took on the buildings, the badges, and every person who walks through a door on the government’s behalf.
Your business is delivery and prevention is ours, so we work as a subcontractor and your people stay on the mission they were hired for.
Flow-down safety obligations are the federal contractor version of a requirement that now reaches most American employers. If you are building the underlying program rather than satisfying a clause, start with what a workplace violence prevention program actually contains.
What workplace violence obligation flows down to a federal prime?
You are running facilities in several states, with a workforce that mixes your employees, your subs, cleared staff, uncleared staff and visitors who were badged this morning. You are also handling terminations, clearance revocations and the difficult conversations that come with them, which are among the highest risk moments any employer will ever manage, and you are doing all of it for a customer whose expectations do not pause because something happened on your site.
Most primes handle this the way most organizations do. Someone in corporate security owns it on paper, a training video gets assigned once a year, and nobody has looked at the actual buildings.
What your program is measured against
If your agency or your prime has a workplace violence program, the document it is measured against is the Interagency Security Committee’s Violence in the Federal Workplace: A Guide for Prevention and Response, Revision 4.0, issued in 2019 under a committee chaired by the Department of Homeland Security. It replaced the 2013 edition and the Office of Personnel Management handbook before it, and it connects your obligations to Section 19 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act, Executive Order 12196, and 29 CFR Part 1960.
It is a good document, and most agencies and primes we meet have read it. The gap is almost never knowledge. The gap is that the program it describes is written down, filed, usually years ago, and the supervisor standing in front of an employee who has started to worry them has never opened it.
| What the ISC guide calls for | What ASPP™ delivers |
| A codified workplace violence prevention policy and program | Policy and procedure development, and a leader course built on your own policies rather than ours |
| Threat assessment teams drawing on legal, security, human resources and operational psychology | Team structure, charter, a five step case process, a four level risk scale, and a ninety day stand up |
| Recognition of warning signs | The pathway to violence, behaviors of concern, the leakage rule, and the behavior not identity rule |
| Initial and recurring training for all employees, supervisors and response teams | A five rung course ladder with twenty four month recertification, and a learning management option for the base rung |
| A reporting procedure that encourages reporting of all incidents, including minor ones | The reporting structure, the lanes, the five triggers, the ninety second report, and the four names |
| An annual program audit | A three tier facility assessment method with a documented report format and re-assessment cadence |
| General duty obligations under OSH Act section 5(a)(1) | Taught by name in the leader course |
One more boundary, stated plainly because buyers ask. NFPA 3000, the Standard for an Active Shooter/Hostile Event Response Program, covers preparedness, response and recovery, and its own application clause says it does not apply to preventing an incident. We work in the phase that standard excludes. That is not a criticism of NFPA 3000. It is the reason both documents exist.
What does a federal workplace violence prevention program include?
| Service | What you receive |
|---|---|
| Facility and site assessment | Written findings across your locations, prioritized by what to fix first |
| P.R.O. Model™ workshop | Prevention doctrine for leadership and staff |
| Full scale exercise | An executed drill and an after action review |
| HR crisis preparedness | A reporting channel and a response protocol that people will actually use |
| Training program | Delivered curriculum, built for multi site organizations |
Scoped as one subcontract line, mapped to your facilities, reported in the format your customer already reads.
The P.R.O. Model™
Prevention. Response. Options. In that order.
The P.R.O. Model™ is an “A” National Standard selected by the U.S. Department of Justice, twice, for 2022 to 2025 and again for 2026 to 2030. It is in use at some installations and commands across the Department of Defense. The National Active Shooter Prevention Training Video built on it was made for the 10,700 Assistant United States Attorneys who serve the Department.
Most programs on the market begin at the moment of the attack. Ours begins ninety days earlier, at the report nobody escalated.
How does an SDVOSB set-aside work for workplace violence training?
ASPP™ is an SDVOSB, registered and active in SAM.gov.
UEI WY1KKBUALL95 · CAGE 9FEA4 · North Richland Hills, Texas
Our SBA certification application is submitted and pending.
Federal small business goaling reaches subcontract dollars as well as prime awards. The government-wide target for Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses is not less than 5 percent, set in 15 U.S.C. 644(g) and raised from 3 percent by Section 863 of the FY2024 National Defense Authorization Act. On certification, bringing us onto your team moves a number you are already measured against, in a category where qualified vendors are hard to find.
Our founding principal is a Former U.S. Marine and retired police detective corporal who was on scene at an active shooter incident involving a vehicle borne explosive device and more than 1,000 rounds fired, 168 of them at responding officers. That is where the doctrine comes from.
How long does it take to stand up a workplace violence program?
- A thirty minute call. No pitch, no pressure. We ask what you own and who owns it today.
- Assessment. Scoped to your facilities, not to a template.
- Findings and a written plan. Prioritized, with what to do first and what can wait.
- Delivery. Training, exercise, and a review cadence you can hand to your customer.
No program removes risk entirely. Residual risk never reaches zero, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something. What this gives your leadership is a lower exposure and a written record of the decisions they made and when they made them.
Proof
- U.S. Department of Justice: the P.R.O. Model™ selected as an “A” National Standard for 2022 to 2025 and again for 2026 to 2030
- U.S. Department of Defense: in use at some installations and commands
- Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board: ASPP™ authored the Program of Instruction
- National Football League: Active Shooter Prevention Coordinator, Super Bowl LVIII and Super Bowl LIX
- Community of Experts: an independent bench covering detection and screening, computer vision, acoustic gunshot detection, protective glazing, access control and authentication, mass notification, staffed security services, and federal contract vehicles
- Expert witness: multiple cases for victims’ families
Where is ASPP™ active in the federal market?
Read this section for what it says. Every item below is a response filed or an engagement underway. None of them is an award, and we will not describe one as an award. A contracting officer can check, and we would rather be the firm whose page survives the check.
Solicitations and requests for information we have responded to
- ARSOF Training Support, H92239-ARSOF-TS-FY27
- FEMA Center for Domestic Preparedness, Training Delivery Services, 70FA2026I00000001
- Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers, guest lecturer, 70LGLY26QGLB00057
- Naval Special Warfare, role player support, H9224026QE075
- Office of Assistant Secretary of War, Resilient Infrastructure, JP10212026
- TRIOSS II, W900KK27RA0003
- United States Marine Corps, OFM-E, M67854-26-I-2023
Agencies and offices we are engaged with
- Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency, Office of Small Business Programs and Industry Engagements
- Department of Commerce, Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization
- Department of Transportation, Veteran-Owned Small Business program
- Mentor Protégé, FY27
Work delivered in the federal space
- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board Program of Instruction, authored by our founding principal
- A technology demonstration at Blue Grass Army Depot with senior defense officials, including the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Matters
- The P.R.O. Model™, selected by the Department of Justice as an “A” National Standard for active shooter prevention training, 2022 to 2025 and again 2026 to 2030
- The P.R.O. Model™ in use at some installations and commands across the Department of Defense
How do you buy from ASPP™?
- Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business and Veteran-Owned Small Business, certified by the Small Business Administration, 23 September 2026 through 23 September 2029
- Unique Entity Identifier WY1KKBUALL95
- CAGE code 9FEA4
- Primary NAICS 611430, with 541611, 541618, 541690, 541990, 561612, 611699 and 611710
- SAM.gov registration active, purpose All Awards
- Set-aside and sole-source eligible
Download the ASPP™ Capability Statement (PDF)
Two pages, current as of 24 October 2026. UEI, CAGE, NAICS, SBA certification dates, core competencies, past performance and the cooperative and federal contract vehicles, in the format a contracting office expects to receive.
A note on contract language
Portions of federal contracting carry safety, facility security and workforce protection stipulations, and they vary by agency, by vehicle and by scope. Read your own terms. Separately, OSHA’s General Duty Clause requires a workplace free from recognized hazards, and OSHA treats workplace violence as a recognized hazard where a feasible method of abatement exists.
We mention both once, because both are true, and then we stop. Neither is the reason to do this work. The reason is that it works, and the people in your buildings go home.
Talk to us
No pitch, no pressure. Thirty minutes, and you will know whether there is anything here for you.
Active Shooter Prevention Project, LLC (ASPP™)
North Richland Hills, Texas · UEI WY1KKBUALL95 · CAGE 9FEA4
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