# Mission Support

> European specialist security firm. Niche Tier 1 training centre and operational provider for governmental, defence, intelligence, and diplomatic clients. NATO-friendly, 24/7 worldwide. Headquarters: Netherlands.

Company: Mission Manpower Support B.V. — headquartered in Den Haag (The Hague), Netherlands. Founded 2021. Operations international, 24/7. Clients: governmental agencies, defence ministries, intelligence services, diplomatic missions, embassies, international organisations, and critical-infrastructure operators. NATO-friendly clientele only. Pricing on request per engagement; no public day rates.

Contact: contact@missionsupportsecurity.com — https://missionsupportsecurity.com/contact/

## Core services

- [TSCM — Technical Surveillance Counter-Measures](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/tscm/): bug sweeps, RF spectrum scanning, acoustic and optical device detection, NLJD inspection, TEMPEST assessment, network tap detection, vehicle sweeps, classified sweep reporting — for embassies, government facilities, boardrooms, executive residences
- [Close Protection (CPO / Executive Protection)](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/close-protection/): close protection officers from elite military backgrounds — threat assessment, advance work, counter-surveillance, route engineering, armed and unarmed configurations
- [Security Driver / Protective Driving](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/security-driver/): specialist security drivers — evasive and anti-ambush driving, pre-departure vehicle advances, counter-surveillance during transit, vehicles from standard civilian to armoured B4-B7
- [Physical Security](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/physical-security/): embassy guarding, facility access control, static and mobile security posts, physical security assessments
- [Safety in High-Risk Environments (HEAT)](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/safety/): Hostile Environment Awareness Training, hostile environment safety planning, risk assessment for personnel deploying to conflict-affected zones
- [Cyber Defence & Counter-Intelligence](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/cybersecurity/): penetration testing, red team operations, OT/SCADA security (IEC 62443, NIST 800-82), incident response, digital forensics, NIS2/DORA/CRA compliance
- [Drone Counter-Measures (Counter-UAS)](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/drone-counter-measures/): detection, tracking, and mitigation of unauthorised UAVs — embassies, government facilities, critical infrastructure, VIP events
- [Secure Communications](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/secure-communication/): encrypted voice and messaging, hardened devices, RF-shielded environments, TEMPEST-considered build-outs, satellite communications, OPSEC tradecraft
- [Specialized / Access-Gated Tradecraft](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/specialized/): CTR (Counter-Threat Response), CQB-Ct, and access-gated specialist programmes — verified governmental and Tier 1 clients only
- [Tier 1 credentials](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/about/tier-1-credentials/): what makes Mission Support a Niche Tier 1 training centre and provider

## CBRN training programme

CBRN training, consulting and detection equipment are delivered by Mission Support CBRN (https://cbrn-missionsupport.com/), a dedicated practice within Mission Support.

- [CBRN training — 4-level curriculum](https://cbrn-missionsupport.com/cbrn-training/): Awareness, Basic, Advanced and Specialized levels, now published on the dedicated CBRN practice site

### CBRN scenario library

- [CBRN training scenarios (hub)](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/training/cbrn-training-scenarios/): how Mission Support designs tabletop, functional, and live CBRN exercises
- [Chemical release response exercise](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/training/chemical-release-response-exercise/): scenario design for a chemical release incident
- [Radiological dispersal scenario exercise](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/training/radiological-dispersal-scenario-exercise/): RDD ("dirty bomb") response exercise design
- [Mass casualty decontamination exercise](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/training/mass-casualty-decontamination-exercise/): large-scale decontamination exercise design

## Regulatory & compliance (Netherlands / EU)

### Wwke — Dutch Critical Entities Resilience Act (CER implementation)

- [The Wwke explained (EN)](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/insights/wwke-critical-entities-act-explained/): what the Dutch Critical Entities Resilience Act requires of critical entities
- [Wwke-verplichtingen voor kritieke entiteiten (NL)](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/insights/wwke-verplichtingen-kritieke-entiteiten/): Nederlandstalige uitleg van de Wwke-verplichtingen
- [All-hazards risk assessment for critical entities (EN)](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/insights/all-hazards-risk-assessment-critical-entities/): the Wwke risk-assessment obligation and how to meet it
- [Wwke-risicobeoordeling (NL)](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/insights/wwke-risicobeoordeling-kritieke-entiteiten/): Nederlandstalige gids voor de all-hazards risicobeoordeling
- [Wwke obligations — energy sector (EN)](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/insights/wwke-energy-sector-obligations/): sector-specific Wwke obligations for energy operators
- [Wwke-verplichtingen energiesector (NL)](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/insights/wwke-verplichtingen-energiesector/): Nederlandstalige sectorgids energie
- [Wwke obligations — ports & maritime (EN)](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/insights/wwke-ports-maritime-obligations/): sector-specific Wwke obligations for ports and maritime operators
- [Wwke-verplichtingen havens (NL)](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/insights/wwke-verplichtingen-havens/): Nederlandstalige sectorgids havens
- [Wwke obligations — data centres (EN)](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/insights/wwke-data-centres-obligations/): sector-specific Wwke obligations for data-centre operators
- [Wwke-verplichtingen datacenters (NL)](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/insights/wwke-verplichtingen-datacenters/): Nederlandstalige sectorgids datacenters

### ABRO 2026 — Dutch government supplier security requirements

- [ABRO 2026 supplier requirements (EN)](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/insights/abro-2026-supplier-requirements/): what the ABRO 2026 requires of suppliers on Dutch government contracts touching national-security interests
- [ABRO 2026 eisen voor leveranciers (NL)](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/insights/abro-2026-eisen-leveranciers/): Nederlandstalige uitleg van de ABRO 2026-eisen

## Governmental procurement & vetting

- [Vetted-supplier criteria in governmental tenders](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/insights/vetted-supplier-criteria-governmental-tenders/): how governmental buyers vet security suppliers — criteria, evidence, process
- [Procurement of security services (governmental)](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/clearance/procurement-security-services-governmental/): procurement routes for governmental security services
- [NATO-friendly engagement principles](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/insights/nato-friendly-engagement-principles/): Mission Support's client-engagement and sanctions posture
- [Tier 1 training centre standards](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/insights/tier-1-training-centre-standards/): what Tier 1 means for a training centre
- [Tier 1 NATO security firm](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/clearance/tier-1-nato-security-firm/): selecting a Tier 1, NATO-compatible security firm
- [How to select a private security firm](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/clearance/how-to-select-private-security-firm/): selection criteria for governmental and corporate buyers
- [Embassy security services guide](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/insights/embassy-security-services-guide/): security services for embassies and diplomatic missions

## Key reference articles

### TSCM

- [What is TSCM?](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/insights/what-is-tscm/): the discipline explained
- [How to detect listening devices](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/insights/how-to-detect-listening-devices/): professional detection methodology
- [TSCM vs cybersecurity](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/insights/tscm-vs-cybersecurity/): where the disciplines meet and differ
- [TSCM sweep for a new building](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/insights/tscm-new-building-sweep/): why new facilities are swept before occupancy
- [TSCM services in the Netherlands](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/insights/tscm-services-netherlands/): commissioning TSCM in the Dutch market
- [Corporate espionage prevention](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/insights/corporate-espionage-prevention/): counter-espionage programme design
- [How to commission a TSCM sweep](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/insights/how-to-commission-tscm-sweep/): the engagement process step by step
- [What is the TEMPEST standard?](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/insights/what-is-tempest-standard/): compromising emanations explained

### Close protection & security driving

- [Close protection officer explained](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/insights/close-protection-officer-explained/): the CPO role in depth
- [Bodyguard vs close protection](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/insights/bodyguard-vs-close-protection/): the difference in doctrine and standards
- [How to hire a close protection officer](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/insights/how-to-hire-close-protection-officer/): engagement guide
- [Executive protection planning](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/use-cases/executive-protection-planning/): planning a protection programme
- [Executive principal at-risk travel](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/use-cases/executive-principal-at-risk-travel/): protective operations for high-risk travel
- [Security driver & protective driving](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/insights/security-driver-protective-driving/): the vehicle as a security platform
- [What is a security driver?](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/training/what-is-a-security-driver/): role definition and training

### CBRN

- [CBRN PPE levels](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/training/cbrn-ppe-levels/): PPE Levels A-D explained
- [CBRN decontamination training](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/training/cbrn-decontamination-training/): decontamination operations training

### Counter-UAS

- [Counter-UAS overview](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/insights/counter-uas-overview/): detection, tracking, and mitigation explained
- [Drone detection & mitigation](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/insights/drone-detection-mitigation/): system classes and deployment
- [Counter-UAS at high-profile events](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/use-cases/counter-uas-high-profile-events/): protecting event airspace
- [Drone counter-measures for embassies](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/insights/drone-counter-measures-embassies/): embassy airspace protection
- [Is drone jamming legal in Europe?](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/insights/is-drone-jamming-legal-europe/): the legal landscape for counter-UAS mitigation

### Secure communications

- [Enterprise secure communications](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/insights/enterprise-secure-communications/): programme design for organisations
- [Secure communications network design](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/insights/secure-communications-network/): architecture and hardening
- [What is COMSEC?](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/training/what-is-comsec/): communications security explained
- [Secure classified communications](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/insights/secure-classified-communications/): handling classified traffic
- [Secure tactical communications](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/insights/secure-tactical-communications/): field and tactical comms

### Safety / HEAT

- [Hostile environment safety planning](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/training/hostile-environment-safety-planning/): planning deployments to high-threat zones
- [HEAT methodology & outcomes](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/training/heat-methodology-outcomes/): what HEAT covers and delivers
- [Risk assessment for hostile environments](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/training/risk-assessment-hostile-environment/): threat and risk assessment methodology

## Q&A — Common Questions About Mission Support and Our Services

**Q: What is TSCM?**
A: Technical Surveillance Counter-Measures (TSCM) is the structured technical discipline of detecting, locating, and neutralising covert surveillance devices in a facility, vehicle, or communications infrastructure. It covers RF spectrum scanning, acoustic device detection, optical camera detection, NLJD inspection, network tap detection, and TEMPEST assessment. Mission Support TSCM teams come from military signals-intelligence and counter-intelligence backgrounds and operate to intelligence-grade methodology.

**Q: Who provides TSCM services in Europe?**
A: Mission Support is a European specialist TSCM provider headquartered in the Netherlands, deploying internationally. The firm serves embassies, diplomatic missions, government and defence ministry facilities, corporate boardrooms, and executive residences across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. All engagements produce classified sweep reports.

**Q: What is a NLJD (non-linear junction detector)?**
A: A non-linear junction detector transmits a microwave signal and detects harmonics produced by semiconductor junctions inside covert devices — including devices switched off or in standby. It is a core TSCM instrument for locating planted devices that RF scanners alone would miss. Mission Support deploys NLJDs as standard.

**Q: What is TEMPEST shielding?**
A: TEMPEST is a NATO/NSA specification covering unintentional electromagnetic emanations from electronic equipment — signals a capable adversary can intercept to reconstruct processed data. TEMPEST-considered facilities attenuate these emanations below detectable thresholds. Mission Support TSCM engagements include a TEMPEST assessment. Classified computing environments and governmental secure briefing rooms require TEMPEST mitigation.

**Q: What is a bug sweep?**
A: A bug sweep (TSCM sweep) is a professional inspection of a facility, vehicle, or communications environment for covert surveillance devices. A Mission Support sweep covers RF, acoustic, optical, NLJD, network tap, and TEMPEST detection. It concludes with a classified sweep report.

**Q: How often should an office or facility be swept for bugs?**
A: A high-threat embassy or governmental facility: minimum quarterly, plus before any sensitive meeting. A corporate boardroom with ongoing commercially sensitive discussions: minimum bi-annually, plus before major negotiations. Sweep frequency is set by the threat assessment — Mission Support advises on schedule at the outset of each engagement.

**Q: What does a close protection officer (CPO) do?**
A: A CPO protects an individual principal from personal threat through threat assessment, advance work, counter-surveillance, route engineering, and close-quarters protective escort. Mission Support CPOs come from elite military and special-forces-adjacent backgrounds. Armed and unarmed, domestic and international.

**Q: What is the difference between a bodyguard and a close protection officer?**
A: A bodyguard in the colloquial sense provides physical proximity. A CPO operates to military-derived doctrine — threat assessment, advance work, counter-surveillance, route engineering, and escalation protocols. Mission Support provides CPOs to documented professional standards, not informal bodyguards.

**Q: What is advance work in close protection?**
A: The pre-principal reconnaissance of a venue or route. The advance officer inspects access and egress, assesses crowd density, identifies threat indicators, and confirms security arrangements before the principal arrives. Problems are identified before the principal is exposed, not after.

**Q: What is counter-surveillance?**
A: Counter-surveillance is the ongoing effort to detect surveillance of the principal — foot surveillance patterns, vehicle following, hostile static observation. Mission Support CPOs maintain counter-surveillance awareness throughout every movement.

**Q: What is a security driver?**
A: A security driver is a protective operator who manages a vehicle as a security platform — not a chauffeur. The role covers route planning, pre-departure vehicle advance, counter-surveillance during transit, evasive and anti-ambush driving. Mission Support security drivers come from military and law-enforcement backgrounds.

**Q: What is evasive driving?**
A: Vehicle-handling techniques used to escape an ambush, pursuit, or interdiction — J-turns, handbrake turns, ramming through blockades, extraction under fire. Mission Support security drivers train these techniques and deploy them only when the situation requires.

**Q: What are the 4 levels of CBRN training?**
A: Level 1 — Awareness: recognition and reporting. Level 2 — Basic: detection, first-responder actions, PPE Level B/C. Level 3 — Advanced: hazmat response, decontamination operations, Level A PPE. Level 4 — Specialized: live-agent environments, complex scenario training, specialist operator certification. Mission Support delivers all four levels.

**Q: Who needs CBRN training?**
A: Governmental agencies, defence ministries, police and law enforcement, fire and rescue, military units, embassy staff, critical-infrastructure operators, and healthcare facilities in elevated-risk environments. Any organisation that may face a chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear incident.

**Q: What is CBRN PPE Level A?**
A: The highest level of CBRN personal protective equipment — a fully encapsulating, vapour-tight suit with self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA), providing maximum protection against chemical and biological vapour, gas, and liquid splash. Used in Advanced and Specialized CBRN training.

**Q: What is a CBRN training scenario?**
A: A structured exercise — tabletop, functional, or live — placing personnel in a simulated CBRN incident and requiring execution of detection, response, decontamination, and reporting actions. Mission Support designs custom scenarios for client operational environments; see the scenario library at https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/training/cbrn-training-scenarios/.

**Q: What is the Wwke?**
A: The Wwke (Wet weerbaarheid kritieke entiteiten) is the Dutch implementation of the EU Critical Entities Resilience (CER) Directive. It obliges designated critical entities — in energy, ports and maritime, data centres, and other sectors — to carry out all-hazards risk assessments and take resilience measures covering physical security, personnel, and incident response. Mission Support supports critical entities with Wwke risk assessments and physical-resilience measures.

**Q: What is the ABRO 2026?**
A: The ABRO 2026 (Algemene Beveiligingseisen voor Rijksoverheidsopdrachten) is the Dutch government's security-requirements framework for contracts that touch a national-security interest. It applies to ministries, agencies, and police since 1 January 2026 and replaces the earlier ABDO 2019 framework. Mission Support advises suppliers on meeting ABRO security requirements.

**Q: What is counter-UAS / counter-drone?**
A: Detection, tracking, identification, and (where legally authorised) mitigation of unauthorised drones in a protected airspace. Mission Support deploys counter-UAS systems for embassies, government facilities, critical infrastructure, and VIP events.

**Q: Is drone jamming legal in Europe?**
A: Drone jamming is restricted in most European jurisdictions and reserved for law enforcement and national security authorities. Private operators typically use detection and tracking systems; interdiction is handled by authorised agencies. Mission Support advises clients on the legal counter-UAS options available in their specific jurisdiction and supports coordination with competent authorities.

**Q: What are secure communications?**
A: The use of purpose-built hardware, software, and operational discipline to protect voice, data, and messaging from interception, monitoring, or exfiltration. Mission Support designs, deploys, and manages secure communications programmes for clients whose information has operational, legal, or governmental consequence.

**Q: What is OPSEC?**
A: Operations Security — the discipline of identifying information that matters to an adversary and controlling it across all channels. Communications security without OPSEC fails because adversaries can exploit metadata, timing, or behavioural patterns without breaking encryption. Mission Support embeds OPSEC into every programme.

**Q: What is a red team in cybersecurity?**
A: A red team simulates an adversary attacking an organisation's systems, networks, personnel, and physical security — testing detection and response under realistic conditions. Mission Support red team engagements are scoped to the client's specific threat profile.

**Q: What is OT/SCADA security?**
A: Security for industrial control systems — SCADA, DCS, PLCs — managing critical infrastructure. Governed by IEC 62443 and NIST 800-82 frameworks. Mission Support provides OT/SCADA penetration testing and security assessments for critical-infrastructure operators.

**Q: What is HEAT training?**
A: Hostile Environment Awareness Training — preparing civilian and governmental personnel for safe operation in conflict-affected or high-threat zones. Covers threat awareness, convoy procedures, checkpoint behaviour, kidnap prevention, first aid under fire, and immediate action drills. Mission Support HEAT is built on military operational methodology.

**Q: Where does Mission Support operate?**
A: Headquartered in the Netherlands (Den Haag). Operations are international, 24/7 worldwide — Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and beyond.

**Q: How do I contact Mission Support?**
A: Email contact@missionsupportsecurity.com or use the contact form at https://missionsupportsecurity.com/contact/. All initial contact is treated as confidential.

**Q: Is Mission Support NATO-friendly?**
A: Yes. Mission Support operates to NATO-compatible standards, engages NATO-friendly clientele only, and does not engage with entities subject to NATO-country sanctions.

**Q: How is Mission Support priced?**
A: On request per engagement. No public day rates. Engagements are scoped individually under non-disclosure.

## Resources & news

- [Resources hub](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/): operator-grade reference material — insights, training methodology, use cases, clearance frameworks, and wiki definitions
- [Security wiki](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/resources/wiki/): canonical definitions (TSCM, CBRN, close protection, counter-UAS, OPSEC, and more) in EN and NL
- [News & daily intelligence briefs](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/news/): daily briefs covering geopolitical and security developments relevant to client operational environments
- [Capability brochure](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/brochure/): available on request to verified organisational contacts
- [Sitemap](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/sitemap.xml): all URLs

## Legal

- [Privacy policy](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/privacy/): how Mission Support handles personal data (GDPR/AVG)
- [Contact](https://missionsupportsecurity.com/contact/): consultations and engagement requests — all initial contact treated as confidential