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March 23, 2019

Blueforce Intelligent Edge Solutions for Sensitive Site Exploitation

by Michael Helfrich
in autonomous agents, CBRN, Cognitive Services, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Fusion, GPS Denied, Interoperability, IoT, ISR, Sensors, Situational Awareness

Sensitive site exploitation (SSE) missions are often conducted far forward and without the luxuries of time and assured security. Analysis of site information has traditionally required network backhaul which has often proved elusive in electronic warfare-contested or space-contested operational environments. Even under ideal conditions, onsite forces face difficult challenges of making sense from, the volume, variety, and velocity of data encountered. Teams need to collect...

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January 14, 2019

Sensor-to-Shooter Artificial Intelligence (S2S-AI)

by Michael Helfrich
in autonomous agents, Cognitive Services, Common Operating Picture, Dashboard, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Fusion, IoT, ISR, Sensors, Situational Awareness

By John Black, Vice President—Federal, Blueforce Development Corp. An Eye-opening Moment and Genesis of S2S-AI Rapid Prototyping Next week, at the Wilcox Industries Range Day at SHOT Show, outside Las Vegas, Blueforce will provide a live fire demonstration of Sensor-to-Shooter Artificial Intelligence (S2S-AI), a proof-of-concept of IoT data fusion, applied to a sniper scenario, one year after its inception. On a sunny day, last January on the...

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September 9, 2018

Blueforce on Display at IACP 2018 Orlando

by Michael Helfrich
in autonomous agents, Azure, Azure IoT, CBRN, Cognitive Services, Common Operating Picture, Dashboard, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Interoperability, IoT, ISR, K9, Law Enforcement, Mobility, Occupational Safety, Police, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Surveillance, Wearables

Since 1893, the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) has been shaping the law enforcement profession. The IACP Annual Conference and Exposition has been the foundation, providing leaders with new strategies, techniques, and resources they need to successfully navigate the evolving policing environment. IACP has been a leader in the law enforcement industry throughout it’s 125-year history. Join Blueforce in Orlando October 6-9, 2018...

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August 21, 2018

The Hyper Enabled Operator

by Michael Helfrich
in autonomous agents, Azure, CBRN, Cognitive Services, Common Operating Picture, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Fusion, GPS Denied, HAZLOC, Hybrid Life Support, Interoperability, IoT, ISR, K9, Law Enforcement, Lone Worker, Mobility, Occupational Safety, Police, Radar, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Surveillance, Wearables

A Blueforce advisor told us very early on that to truly understand customer pain and the very problems we hoped to solve with our technology, we had to "live a week in the breach". So we did, and we continue to do so. We spend many, many weeks each year deployed alongside of intelligence analysts, far forward commanders, door kickers, CBRN responders, EOD, investigators, undercover...

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July 28, 2018

Cognitive and AI Services for Image Recognition to the Palm of your Hand

by Michael Helfrich
in autonomous agents, Azure, Cognitive Services, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Interoperability, IoT, ISR, Mobility, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Surveillance

Announcing BlueforceEDGE Image Recognition Plugin for superior decision support in time stressed and contested environments The increasing speed of unpredictable and chaotic events collapses the tactical decision space for military commanders and first responders. Forward sensor fusion with edge-based processing accelerates recognitional decision making by widening the decision-maker’s aperture to a greater number of sensor inputs and a wider array of sensor types. Cognitive computing tools...

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July 22, 2018

BlueforceTACTICAL Companion App for Samsung GEAR S3

by Michael Helfrich
in autonomous agents, Cognitive Services, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Fire, Interoperability, IoT, ISR, Law Enforcement, Mobility, Police, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Wearables

Blueforce, like most companies, works to attract a Board of Advisors. These are folks that have served in tactical and leadership positions in the markets we want to pursue. One of our most important mentors was a former Marine who was a senior executive in Donald Rumsfeld's (SecDef) Pentagon. He insisted that for Blueforce to really understand the challenges, we had to "spend a week...

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June 28, 2018

Enabling The Intelligent EDGE: Part 1

by Michael Helfrich
in autonomous agents, Azure, Azure IoT, CBRN, Common Operating Picture, Dashboard, Distributed Sensing

By Bill Gellman, Blueforce Development Corporation Blueforce was founded with the mission to enable organizations to make better decisions faster at what we refer to as the “tactical edge”. The tactical edge is where the rubber meets the road and might be simply defined as the area or areas where the action is happening. With roots in national security, we often think of this in terms...

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March 30, 2018

Leveraging the Power of the Intelligent Edge and Intelligent Cloud for First Responder Occupational Health and Safety

by Michael Helfrich
in autonomous agents, Azure, Azure IoT, CBRN, Distributed Sensing, Fire, HAZLOC, IoT, Law Enforcement, Occupational Safety, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Wearables

You and almost everyone you know carry a smart device. By 2020, some reports estimate that globally there will be approximately 20 billion smart devices in use. What’s the connection? Must be the voice communications, right? Or perhaps it’s the real-time internet access that we crave. Many of us already rely on smart devices for social interaction, connectivity, and business intelligence. These days, you and...

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March 18, 2018

The Benefits of Real-time Stream Analytics for Tactical Operations

by Michael Helfrich
in autonomous agents, CBRN, Fusion, Hybrid Life Support, Interoperability, IoT, K9, Mobility, Recovery, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Wearables

Blueforce Announces General Availability of BlueforceEDGE Azure IoT Plugin for Real-Time Stream Analytics Our industry talks a lot about the importance of information, but what often goes missing is any consideration of the PERISHABILITY of information. That is, some bits of data have a shelf life measured in minutes and hours, where other bits hold value for days, months, and even years. Blueforce chose to innovate...

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March 5, 2018

Blueforce for CBRN Sensitive Site Exploitation

by Michael Helfrich
in autonomous agents, CBRN, Distributed Sensing, Fusion, HAZLOC, Hybrid Life Support, IoT, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Surveillance

Sensitive Site Exploitation (SSE) has become a core focus given the potential for executing special operations missions in or near sites suspected of manufacturing, storing, or supporting weapons of mass destruction (WMD) to include chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN). A generation ago, regimes with access to these munitions were limited to developed and relatively stable nation states. However, the operating environment has drastically changed,...

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