HelioLink Securities designs, builds, and maintains secure facilities and the systems inside them: SCIF and TEMPEST consultation, structured cabling, surveillance and access control, fire and life safety, and network security, delivered by one accountable contractor. The practice comes from military communications security, not a franchise manual.
Cameras, alarms, fire and CO detection, and a home network that isn't the weak point.
Start here →SCIF/TEMPEST consultation, electronic security, cabling, and life safety for primes, agencies, and businesses.
Start here →Every engagement begins with an assessment of requirements and threat model. We scope to the standard your facility must actually meet rather than to a package.
Consultation and build-out for facilities handling sensitive information: wall systems, penetration details, acoustic and RF isolation, and GSA-approved locking hardware (FF-L-2740/2890 families), built to ICD/ICS 705 and the IC Tech Spec and documented for the Fixed Facility Checklist.
Video surveillance, intrusion detection, and access control designed as one electronic security system to the discipline of UFGS 28 10 05: specified, commissioned, tested, and operator-trained, with coverage planned from the site survey instead of the catalog.
Copper and fiber plant, cable pathways, telecom rooms, and terminations, installed to standard and documented so any future contractor can service the plant without guesswork.
Communications infrastructure with redundancy and failover designed in. The practice carries over from enterprise-scale military communications, where outages weren't an option.
Fire alarm and carbon monoxide detection designed and installed to NFPA 72, with permits and acceptance testing coordinated through your AHJ. Extinguisher selection and placement follow NFPA 10, and the life-safety plant lands on the same as-builts as everything else.
Network design and administration, segmentation, backup and recovery, and security hardening for small and mid-sized organizations that can't staff it internally, with the physical and network layers handled by the same firm.
Because the seams are where security fails. A camera on an unsegmented network, a SCIF with an undocumented cable penetration: most findings we remediate were created by handoffs between trades. We remove the handoffs.
Anyone can hang cameras. What you're actually buying is the design: whether an intruder is detected early enough to matter, and whether the system still works and still passes inspection five years and three staff turnovers later. The discipline we apply to SCIF construction governs a warehouse camera system too, because the failure modes repeat.
We design to a written internal standard, and we named it so you can hold us to it. Cite the HelioLink Build Standard in your RFP or contract and these six rules become enforceable scope:
Design starts with who you're defending against and what standard the facility must meet: ICS 705-1 and the IC Tech Spec for SCIFs, DoDM 5105.21 for SCI programs, UL and insurer requirements for commercial work. The threat model decides the equipment list.
A camera that records a break-in is evidence; a system that interrupts one is security. Army physical-security doctrine (FM 3-19.30) formalizes the chain of detect, assess, respond. We design that chain backward from your response time, matching sensor type to threat and placing sightlines so detection happens while intervention is still possible.
Perimeter, structure, room, rack, network: each layer is designed assuming the one before it has already failed. Layering is how you buy time.
A camera on a flat network is an attack surface. An access panel on an undocumented cable run is a finding. We design the physical, cabling, and network layers as one system under one contractor, because the seams between vendors are where installs fail.
Every cable is labeled, every wall and pipe penetration gets a detail drawing, and the as-builts match what's actually in the ceiling. That's the paperwork the Fixed Facility Checklist (ICS 705-2) expects, and it's what gets you through an inspection, an insurance audit, or an incident review without archaeology.
Power loss, link loss, tamper: every component has a known failure state, an alarm, and a log entry. A system that fails silently is worse than no system, because you thought you were covered.
In practice this buys you fewer blind spots per camera dollar, footage that holds up as evidence, inspections that pass the first time, and a service bill that stays low because the next technician can read the drawings.
ICD 705 · ICS 705-1 · ICS 705-2 · IC Tech Spec for SCIF Construction · DoDM 5105.21 V1–V3 · UFGS 28 10 05 (Electronic Security Systems) · FM 3-19.30 (Physical Security) · CDSE SAP construction requirements · FF-L-2740/2890 lock standards · NFPA 72 (Fire Alarm & Signaling) · NFPA 10 (Portable Extinguishers)
Most residential installs are a box of cameras and an app. You get the same engineering we bring to inspected facilities, sized for a house: coverage designed from sightlines, detection placed where response time still matters, and documentation you can hand an insurer.
Coverage planned on a site walk, not from a kit. Footage that identifies rather than suggests.
Detection to NFPA 72 and extinguisher placement per NFPA 10, coordinated with your local requirements.
Cameras and smart devices segmented from your family's computers, on cabling that's labeled and documented.
We survey the property, scale the system to your needs, and quote for that. Unlike many security companies, our equipment complies with the Secure Networks Act.
Primes carrying small-business and SDVOSB subcontracting goals can put us on facility security, low-voltage, cabling, and secure-communications scopes. Registrations are current, the paperwork is in order, and the security requirements your contract cites are ones we have worked inside.
We accept subcontracts, Contractor Team Arrangements, and direct SDVOSB set-aside awards.
We do not install, resell, or operate any equipment or service on the FCC's Covered List (Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act, 47 CFR § 1.50002), and our procurement meets the prohibitions in NDAA Section 889. That excludes Huawei and ZTE telecommunications equipment, Hytera, Hikvision, and Dahua video surveillance, Kaspersky software, covered Chinese carrier services, and the foreign-produced drones and routers added to the list in 2025 and 2026.
The part that actually takes work: covered manufacturers sell under dozens of private labels, and a camera line with a friendly American brand name is often a Hikvision or Dahua board inside. We trace equipment to the OEM before it goes on a quote, so a federal inspection or a section 889 representation never turns up a surprise in your ceiling.
Our sister division, HelioLink Laboratories, holds an executed NASA research license for quantum-secure optical communications. The same company standard that satisfies a federal research license review is the one your camera system gets built to.
No contractor can promise accreditation; that decision belongs to the government's accrediting official. What we do: design and construct to ICD/ICS 705 technical specifications, document every penetration and material, and support your Fixed Facility Checklist and inspection process, so accreditation arrives as an outcome of the build rather than a fight after it.
The honest answer is usually a scoped countermeasure set. TEMPEST requirements depend on what's processed in the space and on the threat environment your authority defines; most commercial facilities need disciplined RED/BLACK separation and cable hygiene long before they need a fully shielded enclosure. We'll tell you which one you are before we quote either.
It's the most common problem we find. Split responsibility produces cameras on flat networks, undocumented cable paths, and three vendors pointing at each other during an incident. We audit what exists, document it, and take single-point responsibility going forward.
Federal contracts above the simplified acquisition threshold typically carry small-business subcontracting plans, with SDVOSB participation as a scored or required element. A verified SDVOSB sub with current SAM registration and relevant past performance strengthens the plan without inventing work; facility security and low-voltage scopes exist on nearly every construction and IT contract anyway.
Tell us what the property or facility needs to do and who it needs to keep out. We'll respond with questions first, then a scoped assessment. All work begins with a consultation.
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