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November 5, 2022

Blueforce and The Internet of Battlefield Things eBook

by Blueforce
in AI, autonomous agents, C2, C4ISR, CBRN, Cognitive Services, Command, Common Operating Picture, Counter-Terrorism, Dashboard, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Fusion, HAZLOC, Heat, Interoperability, IoBT, IoT, ISR, K9, Machine Learning, Medical, Mobility, Security, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Surveillance, Sustainment, Swarm Intelligence, Wearables

SIX capabilities, powered by Blueforce’s edge IoT technology, that deliver immense capability to our National Security Operators and Organizations. Pervasive sensor technology presents the opportunity for operators to extend their capabilities, share information horizontally, and swarm faster than their adversaries, by communicating with devices that are installed at fixed locations, carried, mounted on manned and unmanned systems, or worn on the body, the latter of which...

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September 14, 2022

Blueforce Announces new Garmin CONNECT Plugin for Physiological Monitoring and Swarm Intelligence

by Blueforce
in AI, autonomous agents, AWS, C2, C4ISR, CBRN, Common Operating Picture, Disaster Response, Edge, Emergency Management, Fire, Interoperability, IoBT, IoT, Law Enforcement, Medical, Occupational Safety, Safety, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Swarm Intelligence, Wearables

Firefighting and emergency response are dangerous professions, and a growing body of research and data shows the contributions that job-related exposures have in chronic illnesses, such as cancer, heart disease, and an array of neurological disorders. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) recently undertook two large studies focused on firefighter cancer and concluded that firefighters face a 9 percent increase in cancer...

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September 22, 2021

Operational Sustainment: The Role of IoT, AI, and Cued Autonomous Platforms

by Blueforce
in AI, autonomous agents, C2, C4ISR, CBRN, Common Operating Picture, Counter-Terrorism, Dashboard, Disaster Response, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Emergency Management, Fusion, Interoperability, IoBT, IoT, ISR, Law Enforcement, Location, Machine Learning, Medical, Mobility, Police, Security, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Stream Analytics, Surveillance, Wearables

Battlefield, disaster response, and public safety sustainment is both art and science; it's about synchronizing, integrating, and transporting commodities in a highly "just-in-time" manner to provide maneuver and incident commanders with freedom of action, extended operational reach, and prolonged endurance. As it turns out, the "science" of sustainment is not terribly difficult as it is grounded in basic math and computation, based on real-time time...

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May 31, 2021

Speed of Command Saves Lives and Property

by Blueforce
in AI, autonomous agents, AWS, C2, C4ISR, CBRN, Command, Common Operating Picture, Counter-Terrorism, Dashboard, Disaster Response, Edge, Emergency Management, Fire, Fusion, Interoperability, IoBT, IoT, ISR, Law Enforcement, Medical, Mobility, Police, Recovery, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Video

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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May 30, 2021

Map Services Plugin for BlueforceEDGE

by Blueforce
in autonomous agents, C2, C4ISR, Command, Common Operating Picture, Dashboard, Disaster Response, Discovery, Edge, Emergency Management, Fire, GIS, Interoperability, IoBT, IoT, Location, Medical, Mobility, Recovery, Situational Awareness

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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April 22, 2021

EPIC 1: BlueforceTACTICAL for LINUX Plugin Core

by Blueforce
in autonomous agents, C2, C4ISR, CBRN, Cognitive Services, Common Operating Picture, Counter-Terrorism, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Fusion, Interoperability, IoBT, IoT, ISR, K9, Linux, Location, Medical, Mobility, Police, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Video, Wearables

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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April 18, 2021

Going Global: Expanded Language Support across the Blueforce Platform

by Blueforce
in AI, autonomous agents, AWS, Command, Common Operating Picture, Dashboard, International, Interoperability, IoBT, IoT, ISR, Language, Law Enforcement, Location, Medical, Occupational Safety

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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September 28, 2020

Blueforce Starter Kits now available

by James Alvord
in Fire, Lone Worker, Medical, Mobility, Police

Small and medium-sized businesses now have access to situational awareness software that is military-grade, and affordable. Public safety agencies rely on operational intelligence to effectively respond to emergency situations. Technology can boost the amount of collectible intelligence and help synthesize and analyze it so informed decisions can be made.  Real-time location of essential personnel and assets is one of the cornerstones incident data that helps first...

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June 28, 2020

BlueforceWBGT as a tool for the Prevention of Heat Related Injuries

by Blueforce
in autonomous agents, Dashboard, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Emergency Notification, Heat, Interoperability, IoT, Law Enforcement, Location, Medical, Mobility, Occupational Safety, Sensors, Situational Awareness, WBGT

Millions of U.S. workers, including those in the military and public safety, are exposed to heat in their workplaces, but also during training. Although illness from exposure to heat is preventable, every year, thousands become sick from occupational heat exposure, and some cases are fatal. Most outdoor fatalities, 50% to 70%, occur in the first few days of working in warm or hot environments because...

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June 17, 2020

Blueforce Disease Standoff Detection and Informatics Solution

by Blueforce
in AI, autonomous agents, C2, C4ISR, Cognitive Services, Common Operating Picture, COVID-19, Dashboard, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Fusion, Heat, Interoperability, IoT, ISR, Law Enforcement, Location, Machine Learning, Medical, Mobility, Occupational Safety, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Stream Analytics, Surveillance

Balancing privacy and public health, while providing real time informatics to detect “viral blooms” in Smart Cities The COVID-19 pandemic has ushered in an era of unprecedented uncertainty. For businesses, the virus has introduced unparalleled issues with business continuity, supply chain disruptions, and employee health. If there is one thing history has shown us, it's that pandemics are known to occur in waves. Infections spike, peak,...

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