07/24/2024
Argos ProśtatisTM Investigations LLC (Argos) is a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Business owned by David Coates, a Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services licensed private investigator, and personal protection specialist with a certificate in legal investigations from George Mason University.
Argos’ foundation is built on David’s expertise, experience, and training during his 22-year career as a Naval cryptologist, 18 years with the U.S. government, and as a government contracted employee. Through on-the-job and formal training, David honed his collection, analytic, inter-agency cooperation, and reporting skills which he uses as the cornerstones of Argos’ daily operations.
While in the Navy, David received recognition from senior national intelligence agency officials when the team he led predicted the 1981 Libyan invasion of Chad. He also wrote an extensively detailed intelligence information report on Southeast Asian narcotics trafficking activity which garnered wide-spread recognition from the Drug Enforcement Agency, State Department, Defense Attaché Offices in three Southeast Asian countries, and the anti-narcotics trafficking Joint Task Force in the Pacific.
David was personally selected by the Judge Advocate for Commander, Submarine Group 10, to conduct sensitive investigations involving the potential loss of sensitive compartmented information, sexual harassment, the cause of a fatal car accident, and wire fraud, fraternization, and the sale of defective equipment. David’s findings were extensively detailed in written reports used to determine if legal actions should be pursued.
Subsequent to his military service, David was employed by the Bureau of Alcohol, To***co, Fi****ms and Explosives (ATF) as the East Region Operations Security (OPSEC) Officer responsible for overseeing OPSEC policy and procedures. He worked closely with numerous Federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies on operations and operational security issues to mitigate threats or potential threats to their respective personnel, operations, or facilities. David was trained and became a subject-matter expert in the Analytic Risk Management methodology for conducting assessments which he used to conduct over 70 risk and threat assessments and damage assessments from six data breaches which compromised over 300 individual’s personally identifiable information.
Reports from his assessments were utilized by ATF’s senior management team and Department of Justice leadership to develop enhanced personal and physical security plans and decision-making for potential prosecutions.
From ATF, David moved over to the Department of Defense (DoD) to work in its Insider Threat (InT) Management and Analysis Center where he was a Senior InT Analyst. His work included administering DoD’s InT program to ensure compliance with The National Insider Threat Policy, and ensure compliance with requirements and standards to prevent, deter, detect, and mitigate actions by malicious or potentially malicious insiders.
