John Strauchs

Principal, Strauchs LLC

John J. Strauchs, Principal of Strauchs LLC, has 40 years of experience in security and intelligence. Earlier in his long career, he founded Systech Group in 1985, a security and fire protection engineering firm. Prior to that he was an equity principal in charge of security engineering for Gage-Babcock & Associates. Formerly, he was an operations officer with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Landmark projects conducted by John Strauchs include: Museum of Modern Art, 10 million square-foot World Trade Center in New York City (post-1993-incident); Security value engineering support to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for the New World Trade Center; 3.1 million square-foot Ronald Reagan Building (the second largest Federal office building in America—after the Pentagon), Washington, D.C.; 2.5 million square-foot Mobil Headquarters, Fairfax, Virginia, and Ben Gurion International Airport, Tel Aviv, Israel. The status of current Strauchs LLC projects: • Adelphoi Village, Latrobe, PA • Jet Propulsion Laboratory Headquarters Building (NASA), Pasadena, CA: Beginning Design Development Phase for security systems design. • [Restricted] National Security Site: Construction period services. • U.S. State Department, Bureau of Diplomatic Security, development of training materials to prevent attacks against soft targets. Draft of 14 modules completed; pilot testing completed. • U.S. Department of Agriculture, IDIQ: Contract negotiations completed. • State of Mississippi, Public Health Laboratory: security design review and revision. • Completed risk assessment of Virginia Center for Innovative Technology.. Strauchs LLC has no affiliation with manufacturers, installers, integrators, investigative services, guard services, insurance companies, and similar conflicting interests. John Strauchs has completed more than 750 consulting and engineering projects since entering the private security sector in 1975. Mr. Strauchs has testified before Congress on security matters. He has written or contributed to more than 90 professional journal articles and 10 books. He has been interviewed on security matters on NBC Nightly News, the Today Show, the Jim Lehrer News Hour, Equal Time, and others. He has been quoted or interviewed by the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, Washington Times, and others.