Bruce Siddle is the managing partner of Warrior Science Group, a group of inter-related companies that provides consulting, training and contract services to educators, emergency rescue, law enforcement, military and counter-terrorism personnel.
Mr. Siddle is the founder of PPCT Management Systems, Inc., who is best known as an internationally authority in the study of combat human factors and a counter-terrorism specialist. Mr. Siddle is credited as the pioneer who initiated the study of survival stress and how it impacts the performance of law enforcement officers, military personnel and combat aviators. His pivotal research into the influence of the Sympathetic Nervous System on perceptual processing, cognitive processing, motor performance and memory, is now widely incorporated in performance based training for the criminal justice, military special operations and combat aviation sectors. Just as importantly, Mr. Siddle research is routinely used to help defending law enforcement and military personnel against charges of excessive force.
Mr. Siddle is the author of 29 articles and abstracts on varying aspects of survival stress and combat performance. He has personally has funded and coordinated 38 research projects. Mr. Siddle has been a guest speaker for hundreds of agencies throughout the United States, including the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, International Association of Chief's of Police, the National Sheriff's Association, the International Association of Firearms Instructors, the Academy for Criminal Justice Sciences and the American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers.
He has been a consultant for the U.S. Dept. of Navy's Redcell, U.S. Dept. of Army's Delta Force, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Dept. of State’s Mobile Security Unit, U.S. Dept. of Defense, U. S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms, the U. S. Secret Service Counter Assault Team and Firearms Training Unit, Federal Bureau of Investigation's Hostage Rescue Unit, Federal Aviation Administration Air Marshals, and various military special operation/warfare units since 1986. He has been a training consultant to the Hong Kong government since 1988, working for the Hong Kong Police and Correctional training academy’s, as well as the United Kingdom police and prison agencies, and several close-in-protection contracts for the Queen of England's personal protection unit (Royal Protection Group). Mr. Siddle was also a contract instructor for the intelligence community from 1988 to the spring of 2000.
Post September 11, 2001, Mr. Siddle’s companies received contracts from the TSA to conduct all of the passenger screener training, to design and implement the Federal Flight Deck Officer’s training system, and to design and train thousands of Federal Air Marshals.
Mr. Siddle has been a guest on Fox News, NPR, Dave Glover, Glenn Beck and a featured combat human factors expert on a Smithsonian Institute / History Channel special on elite counter-terrorism units. In 2010, Mr. Siddle was inducted into the Black Belt Hall of Fame.
Special Recognitions/Awards:
The following details a series of commendations, special recognitions or awards for which Mr. Siddle has received for his service to various governmental units.
1984 U. S. Secret Service Certificate of Appreciation; helping to develop close in protection techniques for the Presidential protection teams.
1984 U. S. Air Force Outstanding Training Award; for the assistance in training the Air Force’s Emergency Service Teams, Scott Air Force Base.
1985 U. S. Coast Guard (TACLET Operations) Special Commendation; pursuant to developing tactics to assist Coast Guard TACLET teams with controlling drug smuggling into the United states.
1988 Hong Kong Government, Special Recognition; designing and training special response teams to control Viet Nam refugees in a safe and humane manner.
1990 Hong Kong Tactical Response Squad, Special Commendation; for training riot control teams to maintain the safety of the refugees at the White Head Containment facility.
1993 Special Recognition, Department of Army, SOTF (Delta Force); services rendered for classified operations.
1993 Special Recognition, 22nd Regiment-SAS, England; the development of specialized training to enhance the survival of SAS operators.
1995 Special Recognition, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Hostage Rescue Unit; training pursuant to Waco, TX incident.
1996 Special Recognition, Royal Protection Unit, (Queen of England and the Royal Family's Personal Guard) for specialized training toward the protection of the Royal Family.
2000 Special Recognition, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the design and development of specialized training pursuant to the Congressional Oversight Committee’s findings of the Waco Investigation.
2003 Eagle Award from the Sports Visions Section, of the American Optometric Association, for research leading the understanding of perceptual narrowing in combat. Siddle became one of 2 non-medical doctors to receive this honor.
Hong Kong Department of Corrections, for continued research and training support.
2006 Presidential Award, State of Illinois Law Enforcement Commission, for contributions toward the training of law enforcement personnel.
2010 Inducted into the Black Belt Hall of Fame
Past Performance Credentials
1980-2006 PPCT Management Systems, Inc.: Mr. Siddle founded PPCT in 1980, which is today the largest research based use of force training organization in existence. Under Mr. Siddle’s leadership, PPCT has become “the” cutting edge training organization specializing in all aspects of use of force training for criminal justice, military and intelligence agencies. Mr. Siddle has personally trained thousands of instructors and in excess of 50,000 law enforcement and military personnel.
In 1986, Mr. Siddle expanded PPCT’s scope of operations to include the study of man’s performance in combat and survival conditions, where upon Mr. Siddle’s research into survival/combat human factors is now used throughout the criminal justice and military academic institutions.
1983 Granada Invasion; trained Air Force Tactical Response Team who rescued 12 U.S. students being held hostage.
1984 U. S. Secret Service: assisted in developing Close in Protection (techniques) for the Presidential protection team.
1985 U. S. Coast Guard (TACLET Operations): developed tactics to assist Coast Guard TACLET teams with controlling drug smuggling into the United States.
1988 U. S. Army SERE course; developed the CQC course for the Army’s POW survival course that is still being used today.
1988-2000 Hong Kong Police and HK Correctional Services: (personally) conducted 8 contracts. Training included;
- Defensive Tactics for HK Police Academy.
- Inmate Control for HK Correctional Services.
- Special Response Team training for HK Corrections.
- Trained Correctional Services SRT during the White Head uprising.
- Provided emergency training in Close in Protection for the Police VIP protection team (upon a threat to the Governor).
1988-1996/2001-2004 Federal Air Marshal training; developed the first Aircraft Countermeasures for the FAM recruits and provided all Aircraft Countermeasures training for all FAM’s during 1988 through 1996. Received a subsequent contract post September 11, 2001, which led to the training of thousands of FAM’s over 18 months to secure air travel.
1988-present U. S. Army 160th Special Operations; designed CQC training for Selection & Training personnel, trained all (Ft. Cambell based) aviators and crew chiefs for Gulf War I, continue to provide instructor support and key note presentations. Received a secondary contract to provide Combat Human Factor training for all pilots being deployed to the Middle East for the first Gulf War.
1988-2000 Central Intelligence Agency: In 1988 Mr. Siddle became a contractor for the CIA training personnel from several branches and dozens of missions. “Some” of Mr. Siddle’s activities included;
- CODA training for insertion into hostile environments.
- Special Operations branch for hostilities in Panama, Gulf War I, drug cartel interdiction in South America, and Somalia.
- SOTC training for all new CIA agents (1996-2000).
- Close in Protection training for the CIA Director’s detail during Gulf War.
- Aircraft Countermeasures for CIA personnel flying middle-eastern missions where the threat of aircraft piracy was high.
- Trained hundreds of CIA personnel for dozens of classified operations.
1988-1991 Operation Snow Cap: trained (DEA, U. S. Army Special Forces and CIA) personnel for drug interdiction operations in South America.
1988-1993 U. S. Department of State Diplomatic Security Training: provided training in CQB training to DS details and personnel.
1989-1993 U. S. Navy SEAL Red Cell: trained all SEAL team instructors in Close Quarter Countermeasures.
1992-1996 U. S. Secret Service: trained Close in Protection (techniques) for the Presidential CAT team. Subsequently became a regular guest speaker at the Secret Service Academy in Beltsville on combat human factors and combat firearms training principles.
1991-1996 U. S. Army Delta Force: developed CQC training for S&T, trained operators from B and C squadron. Also provided training in Close in Protection for their security details, Extraction and Control techniques, and Aircraft Countermeasures as part of the their aircraft hostage rescues program.
1993 22nd Regiment SAS: received contract post Gulf War. Training included;
- CQC training.
- Extraction and control techniques.
- Aircraft Countermeasures.
1995 Federal Bureau of Investigation, Hostage Rescue Team: developed training subsequent to the Waco incident and to enhance their Tactical CQC methods.
1996 Royal Protection Group: (Queen of England and the Royal Family's
Personal Guard): trained the protection for the Queen of England, Prince Charles and members of the Royal Family.
2000 Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms: coordinated design and development of (all) ATF use of force training, pursuant to the Congressional Oversight Committee’s findings of the Waco Investigation.
2001 U. S. Army’s Aviation Research Laboratory: special presentation to discuss Siddle’s research on combat human factors. The presentation was to an audience of medical doctors and professors of human factor science on the topic of combat human factors. Mr. Siddle’s research and training principals are used today in training for all rotary wing pilots at Ft. Rucker.
2001-2003 Federal Air Marshal training: developed the first Aircraft Countermeasures for the FAM recruits. Follow up contract issued 2001 post 9/11.
2002-present Transportation Security Administration: post 9/11 helped the new TSA administration with (conceptual) coordination of FAM and screener security. The initial consulting led to contracts that included;
- Basic Passenger Screener training – trained over 78,000 screeners in 6 months, the only contractor to meet Congressional training guidelines.
- Assumed the baggage screener contract from Boeing due to poor performance.
- Designed the basic training manual for the Federal Flight Deck Officer (Armed Pilot) cadre.
- Awarded the training contract for the FFDO program.
- Awarded a follow up contract to train the Federal Air Marshals.
2004 U. S. Department of State Civilian Police Contract: awarded the CivPol contract subsequent to the PPCT database and training credentials. Today contract supports peace keepers in 8 Country’s providing a variety of missions for the U.S. Department of State and the United Nations.
U. S. Army Special Forces Mobile Force Protection: Designed and awarded the contract to train Special Forces personnel in survival skills for (road-side) ambushes in Iraq.
2005 U. S. Department of Defense SERE Conference, keynote speaker at Camp Blanding