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June 20, 2020

Adaptive Mission Planning and Execution Using the New Blueforce GeoJSON Plugin

by Blueforce
in AI, autonomous agents, C2, C4ISR, CBRN, Cognitive Services, Common Operating Picture, Counter-Terrorism, Discovery, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Fusion, HAZLOC, Interoperability, IoT, ISR, K9, Law Enforcement, Location, Machine Learning, Mobility, Police, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Stream Analytics, Surveillance, Wearables

If you have been following Blueforce for any amount of time, you know the value we place on open standards. Even more so, standards that are portable between a wide array of compute environments, but also those that are light on the network. We have become quite enamored with REST/JSON given the speed in which it allows stateless inter-connectivity between Blueforce APIs and disparate systems....

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June 12, 2020

BlueforceBEACON for Lone Workers and for Personal Safety: WEBINAR Playback

by Blueforce
in autonomous agents, AWS, BlueBeacon, Command, Common Operating Picture, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Emergency Notification, HAZLOC, Heat, Location, Lone Worker, Medical, Mobility, Occupational Safety, Sensors, Situational Awareness, WBGT, Wearables

Whether you are involved in executive protection, campus safety, or manage teams of mobile "lone workers", a fundamental requirement exists to keep track of people and to ensure their safety as they go about their day. BlueforceBEACON is a highly secure software based emergency notification system that provides a safety net. The product delivers location services, secure text communications, covert emergency camera triggering, “listen live”...

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May 2, 2020

Technology to Manage Any Crisis: Zebra Partners with Blueforce for COVID-19 Response

by Blueforce
in AI, CBRN, Cognitive Services, Common Operating Picture, COVID-19, Dashboard, Distributed Sensing, Emergency Notification, Fire, HAZLOC, Hybrid Life Support, Interoperability, IoT, ISR, K9, Law Enforcement, Location, Medical, Mobility, Occupational Safety, Police, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Surveillance, Wearables

To help first responders handle the worldwide spread of COVID-19, Blueforce Development and Zebra have partnered closely to offer a situational awareness platform that can be rapidly deployed by law enforcement agencies. Blueforce provides an easy-to-use subscriber interface to securely connect with people, sensors, and AI services in seconds, using Zebra rugged mobile devices to capture data and remain connected in critical environments. Utilizing the...

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April 26, 2020

BlueforceMOBILE-CP: An All-in-One Mobile Command Post Solution for Crisis and Incident Command Operations

by Blueforce
in AI, autonomous agents, AWS, C2, C4ISR, CBRN, Cognitive Services, Command, Common Operating Picture, Counter-Terrorism, COVID-19, Dashboard, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Fire, HAZLOC, Interoperability, IoT, ISR, Law Enforcement, Medical, Mobility, Police, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Surveillance, Wearables

It’s the same kit we have deployed for more than 10 years for border counter-terrorism joint task forces. A kit that is airline checkable (46 lbs; 32" L x 20" W x 9" H) and provides communications, sensor fusion, and a distributed common operating picture that crosses domains, agencies, and networks. More importantly, a kit that isn’t confined to a single vehicle and...

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July 22, 2019

Verizon 5G: Intelligent and Accelerated Speed of Command for Military and Public Safety

by Michael Helfrich
in autonomous agents, CBRN, Cognitive Services, Common Operating Picture, Dashboard, Discovery, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Fire, Fusion, HAZLOC, Interoperability, IoT, ISR, Law Enforcement, Location, Mobility, Police, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Surveillance, Wearables

It has been called many names: distributed cloud, fog computing, and 4th generation data center, but with the impending mass deployment of 5G a variant of distributed cloud is more commonly referred to as "multi-access edge computing" or "MEC". The idea behind MEC is to deliver compute, bandwidth, and micro services much closer to the end user and IoT devices for faster and more informed...

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July 19, 2019

Squishy Robotics Teams with Blueforce

by Michael Helfrich
in autonomous agents, CBRN, Cognitive Services, Dashboard, Edge, Fusion, HAZLOC, Interoperability, IoT, ISR, Law Enforcement, Location, M2M, Occupational Safety, Police, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Wearables

Squishy Robotics and Blueforce Development Corporation are working to integrate our technologies to provide an improved user interface (UI) experience for our customers by enabling the data obtained from Squishy Robots to be displayed and shared on the Blueforce software platform. Blueforce, which is based in Newburyport, Massachusetts, provides advanced sensor fusion/data sharing capabilities for enhanced tactical decision support and situational awareness. At present, the Squishy...

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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 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 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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