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THEBarling Bay BeaconApril/May 2009 Newsletter

Barling Bay, Greater Charleston Area Finalist for Sloan Workplace Flexibility Award

Barling Bay, LLC has been selected as a finalist for the 2009 Alfred P. Sloan Awards for Business Excellence in Work-place Flexibility in the Greater Charles-ton Area.

To reach this stage, Barling Bay’s application was measured against nationally representative data from the Families and Work Institute’s National Study of Employers and had

to score in the top 20% -- at or above the 80th per-centile of employers nationally.

As a Finalist, the Company was invited and formally recognized at the Chamber’s, 1773 Chamber Awards Luncheon held on May 13, 2009. Named for the year of the Chamber’s establishment, the awards program called the, 1773 Awards, showcases the dynamic businesses and industries that make up the Charles-ton regional economy and best reflect the core val-ues of the Chamber; Leadership, Relevance, Integrity, Diversity and Innovation. Bob Bush, President and Marsha Hassell, Corporate Communications attend-ed the event.

A mere 4 years old, headed by Rick Jones, President and CEO, Amee Bay, LLC was founded in 2005 and opened its doors for operations on August 1, 2006 with a primary focus in marine services and a secondary focus on base facilities maintenance, testing, installation, support, engineering services and repairs.

When opening for full-scale operations less than 3- years ago, Amee Bay employed only 31 people. Today, that number has grown to greater than 130 personnel who are fully engaged in the fields of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, welding/brazing, logistics, Quality Management Specialist (QMS) Systems and administrative support.

Positions are varied and range from apprentices to personnel with 40 years or more of experience and expertise. Many of Amee Bay’s personnel have a technical or engineering background focused around Navy ship systems such as large rotating machinery, cranes, drives/control systems, switchgear/controls/actuators, pumps/hydraulics/piping systems, weapons systems, elevators/conveyors, habitability

systems, lighting, communications systems, microwave, etc.

At any given time and anywhere in the world, Amee Bay personnel can be found engaged in modernization, conversion, retro-fit, upgrade, installation and service of equipment aboard ships, particularly naval ships. A small sampling of their projects includes:

•Refurbishment, overhaul and repairs of rotating machinery onboard US and Foreign military submarines, carriers, and surface ships

•Prototype installations such as new types of lighting shipboard, flight deck lighting; Variable speed drives conversions of steam driven pumps to electric motor drives/controls

•Propulsion and power generation gas turbines fuel controls conversions

•Fabrication, rip-out and installation of switchboard bussing, cabling, controls, breakers, and automation for ships mid-life upgrades

•Just in time delivery of materials for Southwest Regional Maintenance Center supporting the various product families

Amee Bay: “Never Underestimate the Power of We ...”By Marsha Hassell, Corporate Communications

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Bob Bush, President and Marsha Hassell, Corporate Communications seated at Sloan Finalists table.

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•Maintenance, repair, service, and upgrade of the Vessel Traffic System/National Distress System for the United States Coast Guard in District 17 of Alaska.

“Challenging and rewarding projects are an exciting part of every day at Amee Bay…challenges involve the expertise of our personnel being applied to derive solutions and fulfillment of client needs,” said Rick Jones. And, according to Jones, the challenges come in all shapes and sizes and include design modifications, just-in-time delivery, conflicting/competing schedules, ship schedules and deployment cycles, extensive travel and coordination of personnel/clients/materials. “Many of the jobs Amee Bay accomplishes have never been done before and as a result they present unique challenges that at times are unanticipated,” he said.

Jones believes that working with clients and sponsors to achieve great results every time is a reward all its own. “Amee Bay personnel, because of the work they do, derive a special satisfaction knowing they are in many ways responsible for making systems and equipment safer and more reliable, easier to maintain, or less intrusive in the

lives of the military personnel who serve in harm’s way, around the globe and who operate and maintain the equipment aboard ships and ashore,” said Jones.

Amee Bay’s corporate experience brings to focus hundreds of years of combined work experience of what works, what can be better, and the knowledge, tools, and willingness to understand the differences. Jones credits the success of the company to working together as a cohesive team that continually strives to ensure the best value, products, services, and end results. “In achieving these goals we solve the client’s problems. To our personnel it is an everyday part of their culture, mindset, and philosophical approach to business,” he said.

Amee Bay is a company on the move, thanks to good leadership, the great expertise of its employees, a team approach and the willingness of clients and sponsors to work closely to create what Jones terms “a client-advocate centric approach” and, “Never underestimate the power of “we” to achieve great things,” he said.

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About Rick Jones:Rick is the CEO and President of Amee Bay. He has been with Amee Bay since its inception. He has in excess of 35 years experience in management, shipboard operation, maintenance, and repairs.Prior to Amee Bay, Rick spent 22 years working with Life Cycle Engineering and served as the Vice President of In-service Engineering. Before joining LCE he spent ten years operating, maintaining and

servicing nuclear power plants within the United States Submarine Service.His philosophy and approach to clients is that every effort must be our best and that Amee Bay clients should expect nothing less in all that we do. Our success stories are created gaining one client’s trust at a time. Trust is earned not freely given! Never be afraid to challenge the status quo! Great things await those with the acumen to persevere, the knowledge to understand, the willingness to accept challenge and the courage to embrace change. Never underestimate the power of “we” to achieve great things.

Dell Computer Discount Program

Looking to purchase a com-puter? Be sure to take advantage of the Barling Bay Employee Pur-chase Program. Here’s how:• Buy with ease. Go to www.dell.com/epp and order from the showcased systems, which are pre-loaded with a lot of great features. These systems are built exclusively for EPP members and offer additional savings provid-ing you the best value on a Dell Home PC.•Customize your system. Al-ternatively, meet your unique needs by customizing any sys-tem and getting an additional 7% discount on top of generally advertised Dell Home and Home Office promotions.•Add the extras: For the first time ever, get an additional 7% off electronics and accessories on top of generally advertised Dell Home and Home Office promo-tions.•Call-in Price Guarantee.** If you find a better deal on a new Dell home system anywhere on www.dell.com/home, call one of our EPP sales representatives to beat the current Dell Home PC price. It’s another benefit of Dell EPP.Employee Purchase Program: 1-800-695-8133Member ID PS101527280Option 1 – To dial an extensionOption 2 – SalesOption 3 – Customer CareOption 4 – Technical Support

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On Friday, May 8, 2009 Senator DeMint staffers, Ashley Holbrook, Regional Director, (Charleston) Jack Julson, Legislative Fellow (Washington, DC) and Chris Socha, Senior Policy Advisor (Washington, DC) visited the Barling Bay, LLC corporate office in Charleston, SC.

Bob Bush, President, Barling Bay, gave an overview

of the company’s capabilities as did Don Gurley, Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer of Amee Bay, LLC. Larry Mosher, Chief Financial Officer, Three Saints Bay, LLC provided an overview of its role as holding company.

Also in attendance was Brad Smith, Technical Director, Barling Bay, LLC.

Senator Jim DeMint’s Staff Visits Barling BayBy Marsha Hassell, Corporate Communications

Bob Bush’s “Thank You” note to staffers:

“Ashley, Chris and Jack,

Thank you very much for taking time out of your busy schedule to visit us here at Barling Bay, LLC, and the entire Three Saints Bay organization of companies. It was a pleasure to make your acquaintances and to be able to speak with you last Friday. We are excited and proud of the work we do in support of the many federal agencies of which we are partnered and look forward to helping South Carolina grow and become even more prosperous. We certainly appreciate your interest in our company and have already started moving forward on a few of your thoughts and insightful ideas. Again, I appreciate the generosity of your time and intellect to understand Barling Bay’s capabilities, all the while helping us to solve the more complex technology issues facing our State and Country at large, especially as they relate to information assurance, cyber security, healthcare, energy and the defense of our country. Thank you for all you do for us, your constituency, and for your service to our great Nation. If there is anything that I can do to assist you, please do not hesitate to contact me.”

Left to right - Brad Smith, Larry Mosher, Don Gurley, Bob Bush, Ashley Holbrook, Chris Socha and Jack Julson.

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Formal risk assessments are con-ducted regularly by organizations and people to look at potential risks to their endeavors, and to take actions to reduce that risk. The key to any risk assessment is to:

a) identify your assets – that which you’re trying to protect. This is often thought as tangible assets, but intangible assets such as company or personal pride and good reputation are important.

b) Identify the impacts – how a threat to the asset might cause it

harm or reduce it’s effectiveness c) Identify threats – identify

types of events or circumstances that might cause impact to an as-set by it’s occurrence.

d) Determine vulnerabilities – Threats cause impact by exploit-ing weaknesses (vulnerabilities) in our defenses.

e) Analyze likelihood of threat occurrence.- using known vulner-abilities, you can get a sense of the possibility of a threat occurring and causing an impact to one or more of your assets.

f ) Determine whether risk from each potential threat is accept-able, or if additional safeguards (or cautions, or controls) need to be implemented. Such controls or safeguards could be more safe procedures/processes, procure-ment of equipment, training for personnel, or cost avoidance deci-sions.

Project risk assessments look

at those events that might occur that would result in slippage of schedule and meeting milestones, or going over on budget, such as personnel strikes, weather events, equipment breakage, injuries, etc. that might impede project prog-ress or physical assets. We as indi-viduals perform multiple little risk assessments all day long when we cross intersections in our cars – our assets are our property, our persons, and our passengers, and we take precautions and follow laws, training, and experience in place to help protect our assets from collisions or other detrimen-tal events that can happen on the open road. We use safeguards such as pedestrian crossing lights to help make decisions in crossing the road, and combine this with looking both ways and gauging the risk that some car will not sim-ply take off and mow us down in the street.

In the world of Information As-surance, risk assessment is im-portant. We look at assets such as hardware, software, data, per-sonnel, facility, user areas, com-munications, etc and determine what impacts such as destruction, unauthorized modification, unau-thorized disclosure, and/or denial of service might cause impact to our tangible and intangible as-sets. To effectively evaluate risk, we have to consider all threats that might cause harm or reduce the effectiveness of our assets.

Threat categories are those things that will likely always be possible to some extent to cause us harm. So we consider fire, natural disas-ter, water damage, unauthorized physical access, temperature/humidity, unauthorized network access, misuse of computing re-sources, unauthorized personnel action/error, theft, sabotage, ter-rorism, aircraft crash, improper housekeeping, disclosure (impact and a threat), interference, com-promising emanations, and other threat categories.

As we consider these threats in relation to our assets, we look at what we have in place to protect us from the threats, such as fire-walls, policies, personnel training, anti-virus, fire extinguishers, first aid kits, historical adverse events, VPN encryption, alarm systems, door locks, system audits, intru-sion detection, and a myriad of other considerations. We also identify what holes we see, such as the lack of any of the necessary safeguards listed above.

When we see gaping holes in our defenses (safeguards) in rela-tion to a threat, then the risk of that threat impacting our assets is raised.

The great thing about safe-guards, is that by implementing them, they have the capability of completely eliminating one or more vulnerabilities (weaknesses), but sadly, no matter how good they are and how well implement-

Information Assurance AwareRob Ashworth, Director, Information Assurance

What’s the Risk?

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All informa-tion or material considered vi-tal to the safety of the United

States is given a security classi-fication level. Each security clas-sification level indicates (tells) the amount of protection the information and material requires to safeguard it against unauthor-ized disclosure.

There are only three security classification levels—Top Secret, Secret, and Confidential. Accord-ing to the website, Defenselink, the definitions are essentially the same, just the magnitude chang-es.

In the conduct of your work, many of you handle government information. Some of it may be routine and benign, while some may be classified. Let’s take a look at how the government defines and categorizes information.

Top Secret - The classifica-tion level applied to information whose unauthorized disclosure could reasonably be expected to

cause exceptionally grave dam-age to national security. Some examples of Top Secret informa-tion to which you may be exposed include:

• Complex cryptographic and communications intelligence sys-tems

• Significant scientific or tech-nological developments vital to national security

Secret - The classification level applied to information whose unauthorized disclosure could reasonably be expected to cause serious damage to national se-curity. Some examples of Secret information to which you may be exposed include:

• Significant scientific or tech-nological developments relating to national security

• Ship communication equip-ment specs, upgrades and capa-bilities

Confidential - is the classifica-tion level applied to information whose unauthorized disclosure could reasonably be expected to cause damage to the national

security. Some examples of confi-dential information to which you may be exposed include:

• Performance characteristics, such as design, test, and pro-duction data of communica-tions systems

• Ship schedules and install dates

Controlled Unclassified Infor-mation (CUI) - is not a classifica-tion but a form of control and is defined and governed by laws, in-ternational agreements, and reg-ulations that address the iden-tification, marking, protection, handling, transmission, transpor-tation, and destruction of con-trolled unclassified information. For Official Use Only (FOUO) is the same as CUI and while not classified, must be controlled and protected from authorized disclo-sure.

So, when handling your spon-sor’s information, be familiar with its classification to ensure it is properly protected.

For Your InformationBy Marsha Hassell, Corporate Communications

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ed – they can’t completely remove a threat catego-ry… just reduce risk from that threat causing impact to us, further and further – like a calculus equation as X approaches infinity.

We often categorize risk in relation to “low”, “moderate”(medium), or “high”, and of course a threat could be “not applicable” for a particular as-set (e.g., the threat “misuse of computer resources” might be considered “N/A’ for the computer room (facility – walls, floor, ceiling), but would be appli-

cable to the computer hardware, software, and data assets).

How do we reduce risk to an acceptable level? We do this by implementing cost-effective additional safeguards to counteract vulnerabilities. This means more training, equipment, technologies, proce-dures/practices, etc. We just need to make sure that the preventative, detective, or responsive safeguard costs don’t exceed the value of that which we’re try-ing to protect.

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Here We “Grow” AgainWELCOME ABOARD!!

Name: MARk BAXLEyDate of hire: 1 March 09Work Title: Management Analystyour work location: Building 3113/Corporate HQyour work phone: 843-725-6830your work email: [email protected]’s your customer: SPAWAR Code 72, Military Health System and Veteran’s AdministrationHobby(s): Golf, Running, Georgia Bulldog Football/All Football, Beach/Traveling, Grilling/Cooking

Name: SCOTT WALkERDate of hire: 19 December 2008Work Title: Sr. Architectyour work location: Crystal Cityyour work phone: 703-517-4289your work email: [email protected]’s your customer: Department of Homeland Security – Immigration & Customs EnforcementHobby(s): Fishing, Hunting, Golf

Name: DEIDRA S. LEE Date of hire: January 26, 2009Work Title: Administrative Assistant your work location: Lorton, VA (DEA ST)your work phone: 703-495-6752 your work email: [email protected] Who’s your customer: DEA and Barling BayHobby(s): Music, Reading, going to movies, and spending time with family and friends

Name: kRISTy WILLIAMS Date of hire: 12/31/2008Work Title: Data Techyour work location: Lorton, VAyour work phone: 703-495-6548your work email: [email protected]’s your customer: DEA, Office of Investigative Technology (ST)Hobby(s): Reading, spending time with family, gardening, shopping,

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Here We “Grow” AgainWELCOME ABOARD!!

Name: DALE S. SPANGLERDate of hire: April 1st, 2009Work Title: Systems Integrator your work location: Charleston your work phone: 843-218-3522 your work email: [email protected] Who’s your customer: DISA, SPAWARHobby(s): Flying my Cessna 172, sailboat captain, diver, working on my farm.

Special Announcements

Pamela Miller, Project Manager for the SPAWAR, Atlantic, Health Care Systems project in Arlington, VA, has earned the coveted Project Management Certification or PMP.

One of the most intensive certifications available is the PMP® (Project Management Professional) certification. The PMP® credential recognizes demonstrated advanced knowledge and skill in leading and directing project teams and in delivering project results within the constraints of schedule, budget and resources.

Certifications, advanced degrees and certificates are but one of the many ways Barling Bay demonstrates its commitment not only to its employees, but, to current and perspective clients who entrust us with providing leading edge and cost-effective solutions. Congratulations Pamela!

Pamela Miller Earns Project Management Certification

Birth Announcements

Congratulations to Maureen Cherilus Johnson on the birth of her daughter, Genesis Michelle Johnson, born April 18, 2009. Maureen works out of our DC area office.

Baby Eve Nichole Josephs born on March 18, 2009. Proud parents are Bradley and Tiffany Josephs. Congratulations!

Welcome to Our World!

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2009 White House Easter Egg Roll

Chase Johnson & Daijion Lee

By Dionne Perkins, Office Manager/HR Specialist

On Monday, April 13, 2009, me, my daughter Daijion and another Scholar from Excel Public Charter School were selected to represent the school at the 2009 White House Easter Egg Roll. The White House Easter Egg Roll is an annual family event to hunt for and race Easter Eggs on the White House Lawn while enjoying storytelling and a visit with the Easter Bunny. The Scholars had a great day taking pictures, dancing to the music and watching the performances. They were also given a souvenir yellow wooden Easter egg that included the signatures of the President and First Lady.

Leave Balances Can Now Be Found in Deltek

Leave balances are being removed from bi-weekly wage statements since Deltek tracks leave “up-to-the-minute”. Therefore, you will no longer see leave balances on your wage statements. If you need your balance simply log into Deltek, open your timesheet and click on the leave button. It

calculates your balance and includes any already posted to your current timesheet. If you have any questions regarding your leave balance, please contact Teresa Cadden, Director Recruiting Services, at (443) 255-1806 or [email protected] . Questions about Deltek should be directed to Mr. Bill Jones, Program Manager, at (843) 725-6838 or [email protected].

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The Barling Bay Beacon, A Barling Bay, LLC Publication, Marsha Hassell, Corporate Communications4360 Corporate Rd., Suite 130, Charleston, SC 29405, Phone: (843) 725-6837, [email protected] / www.barlingbay.com

Joseph Hall A MAN OF MANY FACES & MANY PLACES

By Marsha Hassell, Corporate Communications

“I’ve moved around enough for two lifetimes so, my future is here”, said Joseph Hall. And,

moved around he has, not only physi-cally, but, professionally.

Joseph E. Hall, born January 15, 1977 in Lakeland, FL grew up on a farm “with a ton of responsibility at a very young age”, he says. “I’ve worked very hard since I was 13 from farming, brick mason

laboring, pack-ing parachutes at the local air-port and selling shoes at Foot Locker”.

An avid surfer and skateboard-er as a young boy he shifted to jumping out of planes for fun recalling his first

jump in 1993 when he was

just 15. “It was my birthday present from the Umatilla Airport, since that time I have over 400 jumps between civilian and Marine Corps”, he said.

The early introduction to jumping from planes served him well when in 1995 at the age of 18, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps as a Pri-vate E-1. But, it was not jumping, but, the life changing early loss of a child-hood friend that actually prompted him to serve his Country. Two-weeks prior to his high school graduation and a promising basketball career at the University of North Florida, his best friend was hit and tragically killed by an

18-wheeler. Joseph knew that his friend had en-

listed in the Marine Corps and so to honor his life, he too decided to enlist. “The Marine Corps changed my life forever…I was part of something that was much, much bigger than me”, he said. During his tour, he served in Panama, served as a Marine Guard for Presi-dent Clinton-Special Detail for Foreign Nationals, led the Firing Party for Ira Hayes – one of the seven Marines who raised the flag at Iwo Jima and finally he was off to one of the most elite units, the Marine Corps Si-lent Drill Team and Marine Corps Recon ---a cadre of handpicked Marines chosen to represent that Service. He completed his tour in 1999 having been promoted to Sergeant E-5. It was also during this

time; he entered George Mason University and be-gan his profession-al and educational career in technol-ogy. But first…a slight detour.

In 2000, Joseph did a 360 degree “about face” and entered the fan-tasy world of modeling and en-

tertainment. “My modeling career was definitely unique as I was able to span the globe and walk the runway in some of the most fashionable cities in the in-dustry.…Cape town, , Milan, New york and LA”, he said. Joseph has also been on the cover of magazines, has appeared on numerous billboards in New york and South Africa and has been in catalogs all over the country.

Juxtaposed to his modeling was a mi-nor film and commercials career. He ap-

peared in independent films, “Monster Monk”, “Cande Coated Dreams,” “Whistler,”

“Fiction or Reality” and “The Entire World”. He also shared the screen and garnered a small role with the likes of Demi Moore in “GI Jane”, and with Wesley Snipes as a skydiving stuntman in the movie, “Drop Zone”.

For any “Guiding Light”, fans, in 2003 Joseph played the role of, Sammy, for 6-months.. But, it was his role as himself, Joseph Hall, a bug-eating contestant that propelled him to higher heights as the 2004 winner of the reality game show, Fear Factor.

“I have always had a full time tech, web job… modeling and acting was always a side gig… I just did well with it”, Joseph explained. With technology always in the picture, he continued to build on that knowledge and experience he gained while in the Marine Corps, school and his civilian work experiences, which includes the launch and webmaster role for The Golf Channel.com in 2000.

Joseph finally landed in Charleston in November 2007 and began working for Barling Bay, LLC as a Sr. Information Engineer supporting SPAWAR Systems Center, Atlantic where he leads the de-velopment and branding effort for the NECC Virtual Service Desk. He also sup-ports the Forge.mil project for DISA as the graphics and branding lead.

Joseph resides in Mt. Pleasant, SC with Heather and their four sons.

Hall wearing Designer, Belasse - 2003

Hall on cover of “Runner’s World” Magazine - photo taken circa 2004

Hall wearing couture by Designer, Asolly - 2004

Hall posing in Mr. Magazine 2004Left to right - Joe, Ethan, Noah, Haydn (in

Noah’s lap), Trey and Heather.