DAW Special Projects provides executive protection, secure transportation, and travel logistics to private family offices and corporations — under licenses we hold ourselves, with agents on our payroll, in vehicles we operate.
DAW was built to do one thing well: provide protective services that disappear into the routine of the principals we work for. The firm holds California BSIS PPO 11088 — a low-numbered, long-running California license — under direct, uninterrupted custody.
Additional state licenses came on as the work demanded — Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Montana — but the operating model did not change with growth: a small firm, accountable to the principal, structured around discretion rather than scale.
Today the firm covers seven licensed states directly and operates across more than thirty markets nationally through vetted partners working under DAW oversight. Twenty-two Fortune 500 companies have retained the firm. The vast majority of new clients still come through introduction by counsel, advisor, or existing client.
Stated plainly. These are the patterns clients tell us they value most — and the ones we hold to internally.
Every engagement is run through a single principal of the firm — across services, states, and the duration of the relationship. Clients do not meet a new account team for each new request, and they do not get re-introduced to a sales channel between trips.
In every state where we operate directly, we hold the license ourselves. Agents are on our payroll, vehicles are under our control, and verification of credentials returns to us — not to a partner, a roster, or a referral chain.
We do not run public retail intake, do not maintain client testimonials, and do not name principals in marketing. Inquiries are typically introduced through counsel, advisor, or existing client — and discretion at that first contact is the first deliverable of the relationship.
Every assignment is structured around the actual exposure profile, not pulled from a fixed menu. A daily routine for a Bay Area founder, a single FBO meet in Phoenix, a multi-city corporate analyst tour, a Lake Tahoe board offsite — each gets the configuration it warrants, no more, no less.
State minimums are the floor, not the standard. Internal training and ongoing requalification — protective driving, surveillance detection, medical, communications — are run continuously, and every deployed agent meets a higher bar than what a registry alone reflects.
A single trip touching California, Nevada, Texas, and a private aviation handoff in Arizona is one engagement on our record — not four vendor relationships the principal has to manage. This is the structural advantage of holding licenses directly across multiple states.
Reputation is earned across decades of work, but it cannot be independently verified by a prospective client. A license number can be — and we list every one of ours below. Clients, attorneys, family office staff, and corporate counsel are encouraged to verify each one directly with the issuing state authority.
Every inquiry reaches a principal of the firm — by phone or email. There is no intake form, and there is no script.
