Overwatch Strategies provides advisory and consulting services to public safety agencies and select private sector clients at the intersection of law enforcement operations, physical security, and emerging technology.
Our work focuses on Drone as First Responder (DFR) program development, AI-integrated surveillance system design, access control governance, and the policy and compliance frameworks that determine whether a technology program survives long-term scrutiny.
What sets this work apart: we are not technology advocates. We are practitioners who have lived the consequences of implementation decisions, managed systems when they fail, and answered to elected officials, legal counsel, and the public when programs face scrutiny. That experience shapes every engagement.
We help organizations build programs that are sustainable with the resources they actually have, defensible under the legal and political conditions they actually operate in, and honest about what it takes to govern them over time.
About the Principal
Terry Schreiber is the founder and principal of Overwatch Strategies. He serves in a senior command role at a Chicago-area municipal police agency, with direct responsibility over UAS operations, real-time situational awareness technology, and technology policy across patrol and investigative functions.
He holds a Master of Public Administration, a commercial pilot certificate, and a Gold Seal flight instructor rating. The aviation background is not incidental. It shapes how Overwatch approaches airspace integration, UAS program design, and the pilot currency and qualification standards that separate a functional DFR program from one that photographs well in a vendor demo.
His technology fluency spans body-worn and in-car video ecosystems, ALPR and real-time crime center platforms, access control architectures, and enterprise video systems, drawn from direct operational use rather than vendor briefings. Client engagements reflect that perspective: vendor-agnostic, operationally grounded, and built for the long-term governance burden agencies carry after the procurement cycle ends.
