About the company
A small business of career continuity and security professionals.
RISC is a veteran-owned, minority-owned small business that provides strategic business continuity, special security, and DoD critical infrastructure protection program consulting and management services to commercial and government organizations.
Our story
A standard set in uniform, kept in the work
RISC was founded on a service standard: be ready before you are asked, and never be the reason someone else’s mission fails.
Some organizations are known before they arrive. In a service career that reputation is earned in the unglamorous details: readiness that never lapses, checklists that are actually run, communications that are actually tested, and a flat refusal to be the reason someone else’s mission fails.
Founder James Banks built RISC on that standard. A 23-plus-year veteran of the United States Marine Corps and a retired Sergeant Major, he went on to serve as Deputy Director of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) Operations Center and as Director, Continuity & Critical Infrastructure Protection — roles built on the exact qualities that make a watch floor trustworthy at three in the morning: unwavering readiness, zero tolerance for failure, and responsibility for protecting what the mission cannot afford to lose.
RISC exists because continuity of operations and continuity of government plans, business impact and business process analyses, DoD critical infrastructure and asset identification, and special security program management deserve that same standard. A plan is not a document; it is a promise that essential functions keep running on the worst day an organization has.
Show up prepared. Get it right the first time. Never let the organization counting on you down. The standard behind every plan we hand back
Positions listed are Mr. Banks’s own prior government and military service, held before founding RISC. They are not RISC engagements and are not offered as corporate past performance.
Core capabilities
Bridging current and contingency operations
RISC has an experienced team of business continuity and security consultants who are qualified and certified to help customers bridge the gaps between current and contingency operations.
We have the expertise, certifications, and in-depth management capabilities to provide organizations with the development and execution of their suite of business continuity, resiliency, risk management, security management, and critical infrastructure protection solutions.
Our proven results allow customers to focus on their mission-critical core business functions. Rather than delivering a study and departing, we build programs that an organization can own: standardized planning objectives, documented procedures, a defined review cycle, and staff who know their role when an essential function is threatened.
That work spans continuity of operations and continuity of government planning, business impact and business process analysis, special security program management, and critical infrastructure protection — supported where needed by procurement, transition, and training services.
We are, by our very nature, steeped in military custom and courtesy — and we understand DoD requirements and standards because we lived under them. RISC consultants
Team background
Who performs the work
RISC consultants come from careers in uniform and in government security programs, and they remain the practitioners on every engagement.
RISC fields a blend of retired military senior leaders and senior government officers: retired senior field grade officers (O-6 and O-5), command-level senior enlisted advisors and special operators (E-9), and civil servants who ran security and continuity programs from inside the government. We are, by our very nature, steeped in military custom and courtesy, and we understand DoD requirements and standards because we thrived as military members and loved serving our country.
That service background is paired with academic and professional credentials held across the team: doctorates (PhD), Master of Science (MS) and Master of Public Administration (MPA) degrees, Critical Infrastructure Protection credentials, and the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification. Between them the team brings 110+ years of combined experience to the programs it supports.
The result is a team that is credible in front of a program office, a security officer, and an operations staff at the same time — and that can hand a working program back to the people who have to run it.
Distinctive strengths
Coaching, project management, and change leadership
Continuity work only sticks when the organization changes with it. Three capabilities set RISC apart when a program has to be adopted, not just delivered.
- Executive coaching
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Change management
Credentials held across the team
- Strategic change management
- TS/SCI clearances
- TWIC-badged
- HIPAA & bloodborne pathogen
Corporate facts
Corporate profile and classifications
Company details and small-business classifications. Current registrations and certifications are available on request.
Company profile
- Registered company name
- Realized Intelligent Solutions Corporation
- Year and state incorporated
- 24 May 2018 · Commonwealth of Virginia
- Business classification
- Veteran-owned, minority-owned small business
- Office
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5904 Richmond Hwy STE 500
Alexandria, VA 22303-1864
Registrations
- Unique Entity ID (UEI)
- KYLMC43JX8G1
- CAGE code
- 4DDV6
- SAM.gov registration
- Active through 1 June 2027
- Virginia Certificate of Good Standing
- 11 December 2025
- Maryland foreign corporation
- SDAT filing 16 December 2025 · Certificate of Good Standing 12 August 2026
Supporting certification and registration documentation is maintained by the office and is available to contracting officers and prime contractors on request.
Certification seals
The programs RISC is certified under
Certifications
Certifications and socio-economic status
Each entry below is shown with the body that granted it and its current status, so a contracting officer can tell a third-party verified certification from a self-certification at a glance.
Federal certifications
Formally verified by the U.S. Small Business Administration through VetCert — third-party verified, not self-certified.
- Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB)Application ID 67012
- Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB)Application ID 67012
- SBA Business ProfileProfile ID 868980
SAM.gov self-certified
Socio-economic types self-certified in RISC’s SAM.gov entity record. These are self-certifications, not third-party certifications.
Self-certified in SAM.gov · no certificate number issued
- Unique Entity ID (UEI)
- KYLMC43JX8G1
- CAGE code
- 4DDV6
- SAM.gov registration
- Active through 1 June 2027
Maryland certifications
State of Maryland program certifications and corporate standing.
- Maryland eMMA vendor registrationSupplier #SUP024457
- Registered Maryland foreign corporation
Status as verified in RISC’s corporate records of 20 August 2026. Certifications are listed only where they are currently held; applications under review are not listed.
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