In several recent business surveys, business interruption and disaster recovery, as well as political unrest and threats from various terrorist and insurgent groups, were all listed as major concerns for Western businesses operating within Asia.
Senior management within Orion Support Incorporated (OSI) has over 60 years of combined security consulting experience within the Philippines, and over 90, worldwide. They have conducted hundreds to risk assessments and security surveys throughout the Philippines since 1984, to include within the major high risk areas in Mindanao in the southern Philippines, both for the U.S. government and major International and Philippine corporations. Such efforts have included the development of in-depth risk assessments and counterinsurgency collections, with focus on such factors as the plans and "Order of Battle" of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), the New People's Army (NPA), the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the Jemaah Islamiya (JI) and the Abu Sayaaf as they related to our major U.S. Fortune 500 clients' business interests in the Philippines. OSI's senior management were career counterintelligence officers within the U.S. Embassy before their retirement, with over two decade of focus on the Communist and Muslim Insurgencies throughout the Philippines.
They have supported such activities as a major worldwide oil pollution fund's efforts to properly compensate the inhabitants of an area in the Visayas in the southern Philippines, where a major oil spill severely affected the local residents' livelihood. OSI insured that those individuals authorized compensation, received same in a prompt and timely manner; and none was siphoned off by local crime syndicates or insurgent groups with interests inimical to this process. OSI also supports major U.S. corporations doing business over a broad area of Mindanao, enhancing their security over thousands of hectares of agricultural activity through the upgrading of their security policies and procedures, guard force audits and crisis management training, as well as continual counterinsurgency collections to determine the plans and interests of various insurgent groups with regards to our client's business.