SEASON: 1 EPISODE: 7 We sat down with Nick Nilan, a telecommunications industry veteran who currently serves as a Director of Product Development for Public Sector at Verizon to discuss system interoperability and network slicing. To learn more about Verizon Frontline, visit them at: Verizon Frontline. ...
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SEASON: 1 EPISODE: 6 We sat down with Allison Kahn, electronics engineer and project lead for the National Institute of Standards Public Safety Communications Research Division to discuss automated stream analysis for public safety and the need for more real-time analysis within public safety. To learn more about the R2 Network, visit them at: r2network.com ...
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Much like military conflict, manmade and natural disasters present similar challenges of uncertainty, complexity and variability. These time-constrained and chaotic decision environments require rapid adaptation and an ability to pivot quickly to changes in the environment. The complexity of the event, coupled with time compressed decision space and the severity of the potential consequences, creates conditions that are unforgiving of error. Given the austere and...
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Ask anyone who has responded to a natural or manmade disaster and they will tell you, these events create the mother of all non-predictive inter-agency mashups. The multitude of agencies responding from outside of the incident area creates a need for hyperlocal services that assist in navigation, but also enable the finding and discovery of resources in the affected area of operation that can be...
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The origins of the Blueforce platform began with a singular and simple mission set: Enable warfighters and first responders to leverage their mobile compute devices to quickly form secure human workgroups in order to respond to a rapidly evolving incident. Blueforce delivered this in 2012 in the form of BlueforceTACTICAL for Android which enabled self-synchronization of location, shared ground intelligence, and the fusion and movement...
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SEASON: 1 EPISODE: 5 We sat down with Bryce Stirton Co-Founder and President at Responder Corp to learn about the R2 network that connects first responders and leading technology innovators to build solutions for the future. To learn more about the R2 Network, visit them at: r2network.com ...
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It's that time of year. Every fire season, millions of acres across the world burn during wildland fire events. Worse, between 2000 - 2019 alone, more than 400 wildland firefighters lost their lives fighting these fires while protecting civilians, homes, and forests. While the hazards faced on the fire line can include burnovers/entrapments, heat-related illnesses and injuries, smoke inhalation, vehicle-related injuries (including aircraft), slips, trips,...
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SEASON: 1 EPISODE: 5 We sat down with Bryce Stirton Co-Founder and President at Responder Corp to learn about the R2 network that connects first responders and leading technology innovators to build solutions for the future. To learn more about the R2 Network, visit them at: r2network.com ...
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Mosaic system tenants that relate to time constrained decision environments increase survivability while enabling rapid adaptation for the good guys, and creating complexity and uncertainty for the adversary through the rapid composition and recomposition of disaggregated IoT sensors and AI swarms. A mosaic approach treats threat as a "complex adaptive system" and leverages low-cost manned and unmanned swarming formations, flexibly networked and rapidly configured to...
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Blueforce has been working diligently over the last six months on our new BlueforceTACTICAL and BlueforceEDGE ports to Linux. Much of our work has been in developing next generation Blueforce Plugins for the Linux platform that support and extend capability to shrink the footprint, but also the Space, Weight, and Power (SWaP) requirements such that the code can run on “System on Chip” containers, but...
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Exciting times indeed. Our partnership with Wilcox Industries, Samsung, Providence UK, Tactical Equipements FR and VARSPEX (CA) plus active international engagement pushes Blueforce rapidly into global markets as we add new service providers, value added resellers, and technology partners. With these partnerships comes expansion into new geographies, here in the United States, but also globally. With these new geos comes the need to support a...
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SEASON: 1 EPISODE: 4 We sat down with Jordon Sun, Chief Innovation Officer for the city of San Jose, and talk about how San Jose building a truly smart city that is data-driven, digitally responsive to the community needs, and an infrastructure that supports technology. ...
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