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Paralynx
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About ParalynxService-disabled veteran-owned federal security integrator
Access control, video and intrusion detection for federal facilities
We design, install and maintain the electronic security systems that protect federal buildings, and keep them running with four-hour emergency response.
Event logSimulation
- Designation
- SDVOSB SBA VetCert
- Native American Owned · MBE (State of Maryland)
- UEI
- N4G8VQACJUB1
- CAGE
- 8D0Q7
- Primary NAICS
- 561621
One integrator from the reader on the wall to the report on your desk
An electronic security system is five layers that have to work as one. We design, install and maintain every one of them, so a failure has one phone number and one owner.
Program
Every system starts as a survey and a design package, and stays healthy through a quality control plan. This is the layer contracting officers evaluate.
- Site surveys and device-level condition reports
- Engineering design packages, BOMs and statements of work
- ISC risk and threat assessments
- PMP-certified program and project management
Head-end
Access control, video and intrusion brought together on hardened servers, so an operator sees one event instead of three alarms.
- Head-end server builds, virtualization and hardening
- Access, video and intrusion integration under one console
- Intercom, emergency call stations and mass notification
- Multi-site enterprise architectures and failover
Network and power
The layer nobody sees until it fails. Uplinks sized to the real stream load, PoE budgets with headroom, standby power that lasts as long as the policy says.
- Structured cabling, fiber and pathway
- Security network design: VLANs, PoE budgets, uplink sizing
- Power supplies, battery standby and UPS plants
- Data and telecommunications packages for secure spaces
Controllers
Where the decisions happen: a panel checks a credential and releases a lock in a fraction of a second, and keeps doing it if the network drops.
- New PACS design, installation and commissioning
- HSPD-12 and FICAM-aligned reader and credential integration
- Legacy panel migration and rip-and-replace modernization
- Enterprise preventive and corrective maintenance with four-hour emergency response
Field devices
The devices on the wall: CAC and PIV readers, cameras placed for the pixel density the task needs, door contacts and motion sensors.
- Camera layout to detect, recognize and identify targets
- VMS and NVR design, server builds and storage sizing
- Cloud-managed video for agencies that want it
- Analog-to-IP migration and NVR replacement in occupied buildings
Prime contracts, won and delivered
Two of our prime awards were won in full and open competition, against companies of every size, with no set-aside preference.
| Customer | Work | Award | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. Army Fort Belvoir, Virginia | Access control Enterprise physical access control system maintenance: preventive and corrective maintenance, modifications, HSPD-12 compliance, 24/7 support and four-hour emergency response. | Prime Full and open | 2026 – 2030 |
| DHS / ICE Homeland Security Investigations Newark, New Jersey | Access control Electronic security system maintenance for an enterprise access control platform. | Prime Full and open | 2026 – 2031 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs Bedford VA Medical Center, Massachusetts | Video surveillance Network video recorder replacement and camera programming inside an operating medical center, following our campus-wide condition survey. | Prime SDVOSB set-aside | 2026 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs Bedford VA Medical Center, Massachusetts | Program services Campus-wide survey of camera and access control systems, with a device-by-device condition report and recommendations. | Prime SDVOSB set-aside | 2025 – 2026 |
The ESS Toolbox: 10 engineering calculators, free and open
The tools our technicians use in the field. Every calculator shows the formula it used and the assumptions it made. Try the storage calculator below; it runs entirely in your browser.
Software we built to run our own contracts
We wrote these because the tools we needed did not exist. Now other contractors use them too.
In development
Paralynx Desktop
Windows desktop edition of Paralynx
A government contractor's whole bid lifecycle on one Windows computer: find the work, decide, price, propose, and run the contract after award.
About Paralynx Desktop Available now
Field Tech
Field service management for security contractors
Customer ticketing and preventive maintenance on one site record.
About Field TechPlatforms we install and maintain
Vendor-aware, not vendor-locked. We work on the platform your facility already runs.
- Software HouseC-CURE 9000 Advanced Integrator
- VerkadaGold tier partner
- Galaxy Control SystemsAuthorized dealer
- Hanwha VisionAuthorized dealer
- Milestone SystemsAuthorized partner
- AMAG Technology
- Genetec
- American Dynamics
- Avigilon
- Axis Communications
- Pelco
- RS2 Technologies
- HID Global
- Zenitel / Stentofon
- Aiphone
- Code Blue
- Bogen
Run by someone who has stood in your mechanical room
Tommy Worth founded Black Raven Security in 2019 and has run it full time since 2025. He is an Army veteran who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom, and a pilot.
Before Black Raven he built a career on the integrator side of federal security: Lenel systems work at Convergint, then Chenega Security International, where he rose from systems administrator to senior operations manager, business development manager and quality assurance manager on an enterprise HSPD-12 security program covering more than 220 buildings.