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August 20, 2017

PoliceONE and Kyocera: Every Officer, every Soldier, a Blueforce Sensing Platform

by Michael Helfrich
in CBRN, Distributed Sensing, Emergency Notification, Intrinsically Safe, IoT, K9, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Surveillance, WBGT, Wearables
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PoliceOne is THE authoritative source for Law Enforcement and their recent article proves it. Every officer, every soldier, is a Blueforce Sensing Platform.  It's a common doctrinal goal for network-centric operations.  Today, we have specialized military and police dogs that are trained specifically for bomb detection, yet, a limited number of resourecs can only be deployed so far and so wide. We need bomb "noses" far and wide. When...

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Blueforce New Ideas Portal: Your Direct Line to Blueforce Product Management

by Michael Helfrich
in autonomous agents, Distributed Sensing, Fusion, IoT, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Surveillance
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A core premise at Blueforce is the practice of rapid adaptation. Our national security customers face digital age adversaries that adapt tactics frequently. This requires an ability for the "good guys" to adapt as fast and as frequently. At Blueforce, we practice highly agile and lean product development methods which allows us to ship new capability AND innovation quickly (often in mere days). Customer feedback and...

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August 9, 2017

Microsoft Selects Blueforce Command Center for Intelligence-Led First Response Patrol Car

by Michael Helfrich
in autonomous agents, CBRN, Distributed Sensing, Emergency Notification, Fusion, IoT, Occupational Safety, Sensors, Situational Awareness
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Law enforcement officers need to stay connected and be able to access critical information quickly and easily. Microsoft, together with Blueforce, provides combined solutions that empower officers to better serve and protect, and still allow a choice of mobile devices and sensors that both fit the needs of the agency and officers. Mobile phones running Blueforce Tactical can be used to share and receive photos,...

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June 29, 2017

Verizon Taps Blueforce to Showcase the Future of Public Safety and Smart Cities

by Michael Helfrich
in CBRN, Distributed Sensing, Fusion, HAZLOC, Heat, IoT, K9, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Surveillance, Wearables
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Verizon Selects Blueforce for the new Verizon Technology and Policy Center in Washington, DC Verizon recently launched their new Technology and Policy Center in Washington DC where Blueforce was selected and implemented as one of seven immersive displays for Public Safety and Smart Cities. Verizon created this space to tell stories. Not just Verizon stories, but stories that show how Verizon and their partners like Blueforce...

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June 15, 2017

Blueforce Launches Discovery Services for BlueforceEDGE

by Michael Helfrich
in autonomous agents, CBRN, Distributed Sensing, Fusion, IoT, K9, M2M, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Wearables
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Instant and Immediate Discovery of People, Sensors, and Information Services to Improve Operational Efficiency Today's threats and the way that our adversaries fight look very different than in decades past. Asymmetric threats rule the security landscape and with them come chaos and non-predictiveness. Asymmetric techniques often involve tactics that many might call "dirty fighting" which can include operational and strategic surprise and destruction in unanticipated ways....

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June 14, 2017

Blueforce Command Center and BlueforceEDGE now Available on Microsoft Azure Government Cloud

by Michael Helfrich
in IoT, M2M, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Surveillance
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Blueforce Command Center and BlueforceEDGE are now available on Microsoft Azure Government Cloud via the Microsoft managed services CSP program. Microsoft Azure Government Cloud is the most trusted cloud for mission-critical government workloads. Microsoft Azure Government delivers a cloud platform built upon the foundational principles of security, privacy & control, compliance, and transparency. Federal and state/local agencies can utilize Blueforce products on a physically isolated instance...

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May 14, 2017

Drones, Robotics, and non-Human Platforms: Blueforce Changes the SWaPP Equation

by Michael Helfrich
in autonomous agents, CBRN, Distributed Sensing, Fusion, HAZLOC, IoT, M2M, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Surveillance
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Drones and autonomous platforms continue to be of huge interest to commanders because they provide ground truth intelligence (to a degree) because of actual eyes-on the incident. What is validating to us is that more and more commanders see the drone platform as something more than mere imagery collection. If you are the incident commander on a train derailment, understanding whether or not the tanker...

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May 10, 2017

Blueforce for CBRN Response Safety and Mitigation using Wilcox Hybrid PATRIOT 5510

by Michael Helfrich
in CBRN, Distributed Sensing, Fusion, HAZLOC, Hybrid Life Support, Intrinsically Safe, IoT, Sensors, Surveillance, Wearables
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From seeing to sensing, and from assessing to anticipating.  Blueforce Tactical and our Command Center products were specifically designed to enable “small unit swarming”, an ability for responders from diverse agencies, to rapidly form responder networks to counter coordinated and simultaneous assaults often directed against multiple targets, using highly mobile groups to inflict casualties, garner press, and to inflict considerable human and infrastructure damage. These...

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Blueforce Field Day – Fayetteville: From Seeing to Sensing

by Michael Helfrich
in Uncategorized
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General Tony Thomas recently said, "We need to go from just seeing to sensing and from just assessing to anticipating." Multi-sensor fusion in Blueforce provides operators with the means to overcome the limitations of detection threshold and vulnerabilities to deception and defeat by obscuration. Rapid network formation allows cueing and alerts from a wide array of sensors for everything from environmental sampling to physiological monitoring...

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May 6, 2017

Blueforce Adds Support for BodyTrak Non-Invasive Precision Physiological Monitoring and Comms Wearable

by Michael Helfrich
in CBRN, Distributed Sensing, Fusion, Heat, IoT, Occupational Safety, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Wearables
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Blueforce customers live in a world where Command decisions drive mission success or mission failure, and where life and death is a function of actionable information getting to the right person at the right time. Most often, the perishability of tactical information is measured in minutes. A robustly networked operational environment coupled with the Internet of Things (IoT) is changing the game specific to real-time...

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April 23, 2017

Beating the Heat: Introducing the Blueforce WBGT Solution

by Michael Helfrich
in Uncategorized
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The Blueforce WBGT Heat Illness Prevention solution has been designed through collaboration with EHS specialists specifically to provide an effective tool for monitoring workers and ensuring adherence to your organization’s heat safety protocols. At the core of the solution is the Blueforce real-time awareness software platform combined with the rugged Nielsen-Kellerman Kestrel 5400 Heat Stress Tracker Wet Bulb Global Temperature (WBGT) meter . WBGT provides an...

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