Comprehensive Security Solutions
Assess. Train. Protect.
Videre International delivers comprehensive security solutions through consulting, threat assessments, specialized training, physical security operations, and executive protection. Backed by extensive federal and international experience, we provide tailored solutions to meet the needs of every client.
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Our Capabilities
Comprehensive security solutions. Specialized expertise. One standard.
Videre International delivers comprehensive security solutions backed by our extensive military, federal law enforcement, and special operations experience.
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Personal Security Training (ACT)
The ACT program. Threat recognition, pre-incident indicators, decision making under stress, breaking contact, and trauma care when emergency services cannot reach you. Classroom instruction paired with immersive, realistic scenarios.
View the 9 ACT programs→02
Trauma Medical Training
Videre’s Rapid Trauma Assessment System, taught to people with no medical background. Dynamic, Bunker, Mobile and Trauma Response Team Training, built on one principle: learn it once, use it for life.
ACT Medical→03
Armed & Unarmed Security Services
Armed and unarmed personnel for critical infrastructure and high risk settings. Access control, patrol operations, incident response, security program development, and threat informed vulnerability assessment.
Armed security→04
Executive & VIP Protection
Protective coverage for executives, public figures and high visibility individuals. Advance planning, movement coordination, threat mitigation, and protective detail for events, travel and residences.
Protection services→05
Sensitive & Specialized Operations
Assignments that fall outside standard protective and security work, scoped case by case against the client’s requirements and risk picture. Details on request.
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Security Consulting & Risk Management
Threat informed assessment of people, facilities and operations, with practical recommendations and a plan to close the gaps. For organizations that need to know where they stand before they decide what to build.
Start a conversation→Why Videre
Operationally tested curriculum.
Redesigned for civilians in a dynamic world.
Videre’s instructors prepared federal employees and their families to live and work in unfamiliar and dangerous places for decades. Our mission is not to turn you into a security professional. It is to give you the awareness, the practical tools and the confidence to navigate risk safely.
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ACT programs, from a two hour seminar to a five day immersive course
5 Days
Longest immersive program. The shortest is a two hour seminar
Disabled Veteran-Owned
Small business registered for federal contracting, with UEI and CAGE on file
The Difference
What makes us different
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Integrated security solutions
Videre International is a comprehensive security firm that seamlessly integrates professional security services, proprietary Awareness and Counterthreat Training (ACT), and trauma medical response training to deliver a unified approach to security, preparedness and protection.
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Operational instructor cadre
Highly experienced, operationally seasoned instructors drawn from military, law enforcement, intelligence and protective operations backgrounds.
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Designed for everyday people
Designed for individuals with little or no prior training, providing practical, real world skills to recognize threats, respond effectively and improve personal security.
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Scenario driven training
Skills are developed and reinforced through realistic, hands on exercises that prepare participants to respond effectively in real world situations.
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Operationally proven methods
Developed and refined through decades of real world experience and delivering specialized training at the highest levels of the U.S. government.
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Risk reduction and duty to protect
Our programs help organizations fulfill their duty to protect employees while reducing legal, operational and reputational risks through proactive security measures, preparedness and training.
ACT Program Catalog
Situational awareness is a phrase. Personal Security is a process.
Nine programs, one framework. Every ACT course is built on the same core method and then shaped to a specific setting, audience and threat profile. Each is taught by a team of instructors with backgrounds in military special operations, law enforcement, protective services, tactical medicine and crisis response.
The Videre Standard
“We are not going to show you how smart and well trained we are. We are going to show you how smart and well trained you are.”
Eric Velez-Villar
Co-founder · Former FBI Executive Assistant Director
Who We Serve
From federal contracts to private families
Videre supports four groups to one standard, from federal agencies and prime contractors through to executives, families and organizations operating internationally.
Government Agencies and Contractors
Registered and ready to contract
For federal agencies and prime contractors, with the registrations and codes your contracting officer needs already on file.
Corporate and Enterprise Organizations
Duty of care for your people
Reduce legal, operational and reputational risk by preparing employees who commute, travel or work in elevated risk settings.
Private Clients and Executive Leadership
Protection that includes you
For executives, public figures, diplomats and their families, including those who already work with a protective detail and those who travel alone.
International Organizations
People posted across borders
For NGO and mission staff, journalists, students abroad and any organization with people posted, travelling or relocating internationally.
Leadership
Meet the experts behind Videre
Scott McMillen was a senior instructor and program manager for the FBI’s Overseas Survival Awareness Program, and built Videre’s ACT curriculum on that foundation. He instructs alongside a cadre drawn from the FBI Hostage Rescue Team, special operations and federal law enforcement.
L. Scott McMillen
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Scott is a retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent whose career spans decades of extraterritorial investigations and global operations. He served as a senior instructor and program manager for the FBI’s Overseas Survival Awareness Program, then built Videre’s ACT curriculum on that foundation.
Before the Bureau he served as a police officer, a U.S. Customs Inspector, a Federal Air Marshal and a U.S. Army NCO. He founded Videre to bring that same preparation to people outside government.
Eric Velez-Villar
Co-founder
Eric’s FBI career reached the level of Executive Assistant Director, after decades spanning intelligence, counterterrorism and national security leadership, including service as Assistant Director of the Bureau’s Office of the Private Sector.
He went on to serve as a senior security executive for a global organization with expansive operations, and co-founded Videre to bring that standard to people outside government.
Scottie Bogenrief Jr.
Chief Operating Officer
Scottie retired from the U.S. Army as a Sergeant Major, the service’s senior enlisted rank, after a career spent leading teams and running mission critical operations in complex settings.
He served as an Inspector General and is a graduate of the Army’s Advanced Inspector General Course, and he holds Department of Defense certifications in Antiterrorism and Physical Security. An MBA trained executive, he pairs that security background with business strategy to run Videre’s day to day operations.
The instructor cadre
Scott instructs with a cadre of former FBI Hostage Rescue Team operators, Army Special Forces and federal law enforcement, including a 17 year HRT operator and former Navy SEAL, a certified High Threat Dignitary Protection Specialist supporting the U.S. Marshals Service Global Threat Awareness Program, and the founder of the FBI School of Operational Medicine.
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Government & Prime Contractors
Registered, verified and ready to contract
Videre International is a disabled veteran-owned small business supporting government agencies, prime contractors, educational institutions and organizations operating in complex settings. Our instructors hold decades of federal service across the FBI, U.S. Army special operations and federal law enforcement. Specific programs and contract vehicles on request.
Business type
Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business
UEI
JG6RMPXMDEG5
CAGE
0Q1F2
NAICS
611699 · 541990 · 561620
Training · Professional services · Security systems
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