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March 6, 2022

NYPD Transit Police Blaze the Path using BlueforceTACTICAL for Multi-Sensor Fusion and Subterranean Bomb Response

by Blueforce
in AI, autonomous agents, C2, CBRN, Cognitive Services, Command, Common Operating Picture, Counter-Terrorism, Dashboard, Disaster Response, Discovery, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Emergency Management, Fire, GPS Denied, HAZLOC, Interoperability, IoBT, IoT, ISR, K9, Law Enforcement, Location, Machine Learning, Mobility, Police, Safety, Sensors, Situational Awareness

The intelligence community has been warning for some time about “home made” explosive and chemical weapons, many of which can be fashioned from materials bought at Home Depot or the local pool supply store. Fast forward to Saturday March 14, 2015 when leaders in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in Iraq provided the Reuters news organization with soil and clothing samples taken by the peshmerga from...

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November 27, 2021

Blueforce eBook: 5 Delivery Worker Safety and Security Essentials

by Blueforce
in AI, autonomous agents, AWS, BlueBeacon, Command, Emergency Notification, Fusion, GPS Denied, Location, Lone Worker, Occupational Safety, Safety, Security, Situational Awareness

It is most assuredly not our parent's world. We suddenly find ourselves in a new world where the pandemic and serious spikes in crime have implications to our critical infrastructure, our schools, our businesses, and our people. Cybersecurity remains a concern, but physical security in our personal and professional lives is now front and center. Recent attacks and attempted attacks internationally present a diverse and...

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October 3, 2021

Blueforce Plugin Series: CBRNE and HAZMAT Response

by Blueforce
in autonomous agents, CBRN, Command, Common Operating Picture, Counter-Terrorism, Disaster Response, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Emergency Management, Fire, GPS Denied, Interoperability, IoBT, IoT, ISR, K9, Location, Lone Worker, Occupational Safety, Police, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Wearables

The complex environment of warfare and mass casualty incidents produces multiple environmental hazards that can harm personnel and prevent the accomplishment of military and public safety objectives. The renewed use of chemical weapons in Syria, contaminated water in military on continental United States (CONUS) bases, and a deadly fourth generation agent (FGA) employment in United Kingdom illustrate the continuing evolution of methods and hazards. The lack...

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July 19, 2021

Blueforce Plugin Series: Tagger, Tracker, and Locators (TTL)

by Blueforce
in autonomous agents, CBRN, Command, Common Operating Picture, Counter-Terrorism, Disaster Response, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Emergency Management, Fire, GPS Denied, Interoperability, IoBT, IoT, ISR, K9, Location, Lone Worker, Occupational Safety, Police, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Wearables

No matter what the public safety networks look like in 20 years, they are sure to have core capabilities grounded in location-based services.  A critical component of any successful rescue operation is time.  Decision cycle time can be optimized by having the precise location of buildings, core services, emergency service resources, and disaster relief sites. This information is critical to disaster relief teams and public...

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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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September 3, 2018

Blueforce for Dense Urban and Subterranean Operations: LIVE

by Michael Helfrich
in Azure, Azure IoT, CBRN, Cognitive Services, GPS Denied, HAZLOC, Intrinsically Safe, IoT, ISR, K9, Law Enforcement, Police, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Wearables

In any crisis – whether a natural disaster, a terror attack or an industrial catastrophe – every second counts. Blueforce is integrated into a live scenario event that puts the latest crisis response innovations in first responders’ hands to help save lives at Operation Convergent Response 2018 (#OCR2018).   The event is being held Nov. 5-8, 2018 at the Guardian Centers in Perry, Ga., USA, #OCR2018 will once...

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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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March 22, 2018

Blueforce Adds Location Services API for GPS Denied Environments

by Michael Helfrich
in Distributed Sensing, GPS Denied, Interoperability, IoT, ISR, Location, Mobility, Sensors, Situational Awareness

Not a week goes by without someone asking us if we are the "Blue Force Tracker" people. We are not. We named the company as Blueforce Development Corporation because all of the folks on our team share a common purpose in building rapidly adaptable technology for all blue force (the good guys) in all national security and public safety sectors. Yet, we do understand the...

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