Our Partners

Lion Associates is affliated with The Operation Respond® Institute (ORI) which is a not-for-profit, public/private partnership serving the emergency response community with time and lifesaving technology tools to combat safety and security incidents occurring on North American railroads and highways.

Operation Respond is working with the Emergency Services Information Network Corporation (ESINC) to create an electronic network of connected emergency responders to receive and share emergency information. Admiral Lyons is Chairman of ESINC.

ESINC is a Houston, Texas based corporation that provides training, support and technology to the emergency response community under a license agreement signed with Operation Respond. ESINC has developed an electronic network of first responders with access to the OREIS^TM software. www.oreis.org

S.M.A.R.T. (Seal-Mar Audit Response Team) is an out growth of the U.S. Navy’s Red Cell operation, which was created after the Beirut U.S. Marines Barracks terrorist attack in October 1983. Former Seal Team – six (Navy’s CT expert) was used to staff the original Red Cell. Its primary purpose was to think, plan and operate like Islamic fundamentalist terrorist. Suffice to say the Red Cell achieved 100% success. Every exercise was video taped recorded as proof of the penetration and other activities. One of the first exercises the Red Cell conducted in January 1984 was the “USS Cole Scenario”. Lessons sometimes are hard to learn.
Building on the Red Cell model, utilizing former Navy Seal, Delta Force and law enforcement personnel, S.M.A.R.T. addresses both the physical as well as the IT environment. an attach on a target’s physical and IT environment can be overwhelmingly devastating no matter how prepared they believe they are.