Joseph W. Trindal, PPS

President

Mr. Joseph Trindal is President at Direct Action Resilience, LLC (DAR) with offices in Virginia and Texas.  DAR and it’s training division, Direct Action Resilience Institute (DARI) is a recognized leader in emergency preparedness, response and resilience for both public and private sectors.  Mr. Trindal also serves as President of the InfraGard National Capital Region Members Alliance, an FBI led public/private sector information sharing consortium of over 10,000 members.  He also serves on the Homeland Security Intelligence Council.  A member of the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM), Mr. Trindal serves on the Federal Facilities Emergency Managers Committee.  He is also a long standing member of the National Tactical Officer’s Association (NTOA), International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors (IALEFI), and the International Association of the Chiefs of Police (IACP) among other organizations.  Mr. Trindal continues public service as a special Deputy Sheriff for Culpeper County, Virginia.

Prior to entering private practice, with nearly 30 years of government service, Mr. Trindal retired as Director for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Federal Protective Service (FPS), National Capital Region (NCR).  As the new DHS was being formulated in the White House and Congress, Mr. Trindal accepted a call to serve in this executive capacity, assuming the post in March 2003, where he led the organizational transformation. His scope of service at FPS included nearly 400 full time law enforcement and support personnel as well as 5,700 security officers and an annual budget of $147M.  FPS/NCR is responsible for protection, crisis management and law enforcement services for nearly 750 federal facilities and about 300,000 federal employees and visitors.   Mr. Trindal’s leadership substantively improved the quality and efficiencies of both criminal and administrative internal investigative activities.  Additionally, realization of his vision for public/private partnership became a national model and enduring best practice.  Under his leadership, collaborative, interagency all-hazards preparedness improved dramatically at FPS and at other agencies in Virginia, Maryland and DC.  For example, Mr. Trindal directed FPS hosting of unprecedented command level exercises integrating wide ranging stakeholder agencies.  He also achieved considerable improvement of intergovernmental collaboration through contingency planning and hosted executive working groups where FPS either engaged in a core capacity within the Unified Command structure.  Mr. Trindal also led a number of nationally significant incidents and National Special Security Events (NSSEs).

During his 20 years of services with the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS), Mr. Trindal served with distinction, attaining the concurrent positions of Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal and Incident Commander for the agency’s Emergency Response Team (ERT).  During his tenure, Mr. Trindal served and led in every program area of the USMS’ diverse mission.  Among the notable positions was chief of the firearms and officer survival training programs at the U.S. Marshals Service Academy and as a lead use of force Inspector for the Office of Internal Inspections (internal affairs).   He led high risk, sensitive judicial protective missions including the first U.S. District Judge subject to failed bomb attack, and some of our nation’s most notable judicial proceedings,    Mr. Trindal also led some of the strongest interagency, multi-disciplinary operations in USMS history to include domestic terrorism preparedness and response as well as high threat protective missions involving federal agencies, military specialists, local police, fire, HAZMAT, public health (anthrax attacks), and local emergency management collaboration.

Mr. Trindal has additionally served or currently serves on faculties at George Washington University, Justice Management Institute, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Commonwealth Criminal Justice Academy, and Fabrique Nationale Herstal (Belgium) specializing in critical incident management of extreme violence and complex threats.  He is internationally recognized for his published work on suicide/homicide bomber preparedness.  He is a law enforcement contributing writer for the Domestic Preparedness Journal among other periodicals.  A distinguished veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, he holds an active TS Clearance as well as degrees in Police Science and Criminal Justice.

Joseph A. Watson

Mr. Joseph Watson has extensive experience in law enforcement and special operations as well as decades of experience as an instructor.  Mr. Watson is retired with 30 years of service from Alexandria (VA) Police Department (APD) where he served as the Special Operations Sergeant and APD operational commander for the high threat terrorist trials involving Zacarias Moussaoui, John Walker Lindh and Robert Hanssen among others.   Mr. Watson led APD operational integration with Alexandria Fire Department, Special Operations Branch (HazMat) and the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) Chemical Biological Incident Response Force (CBIRF).  His leadership resulted in training and operational deployment of police officers with full capability in Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) up to and including Level A.

After his retirement from APD, Mr. Watson also served as Operations Captain at Culpeper County (VA) Sheriff’s Office where he led the Interagency Special Weapons and Tactics teams.  During his tenure, he led policy, procedure, curricula and operational validation of the teams high threat deployment in PPE.

Based on his extensive experience, Mr. Watson most recently served Senior Program Developer and law enforcement liaison to the DHS Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO).  He led the national strategy to educate and prepare state and local law enforcement capacities for detection, response, management, mitigation and recovery from incidents involving radiological and nuclear materials.  Mr. Watson has extensive experience in explosives detection, response and recovery as well as preparedness training.  Mr. Watson has provided training programs on terrorist tactics and countermeasures to US agencies, the U.S. Army’s Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) as well as international partners.  He supported U.S. Department of State training programs in the Middle East.

A distinguished veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, Mr. Watson holds a TS clearance from DHS.