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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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April 29, 2021

Blueforce adds Dynamic IoT Prioritization and Orchestration at the Edge

by Blueforce
in AI, autonomous agents, C2, C4ISR, CBRN, Cognitive Services, Discovery, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Fusion, Interoperability, IoBT, IoT, ISR, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Stream Analytics, Wearables

Mosaic system tenants that relate to time constrained decision environments increase survivability while enabling rapid adaptation for the good guys, and creating complexity and uncertainty for the adversary through the rapid composition and recomposition of disaggregated IoT sensors and AI swarms.   A mosaic approach treats threat as a "complex adaptive system" and leverages low-cost manned and unmanned swarming formations, flexibly networked and rapidly configured to...

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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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March 22, 2021

Intelligent Lighting makes for Smarter and Safer Cities

by Michael Helfrich
in AI, IoT, Optimization, Sustainable

It's hard to believe that the first recorded organized method of public lighting was deployed in 1417 by the Mayor of London, Sir Henry Barton. Residents were ordered to hang a lantern outside of their homes at nightfall. Even then, urban lighting was installed as a public safety measure, allowing residents to leverage illumination to avoid being attacked or mugged. Baltimore was the first city...

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January 12, 2021

Deep Dive into the Blueforce Decentralized Fusion Engine

by Michael Helfrich
in AI, Edge, Fusion, IoT

The central thesis for the Blueforce IoT and shared situational awareness software platform began to form in 2008 after a meeting with a US DoD special operations commander who described a problem he was experiencing; one that we had heard several years prior during the early days of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). This special operations group deployed with 18 or more body-worn or person carried...

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December 20, 2020

Swarm Intelligence: BlueforceLINUX for the CUBIC/DTECH M3-LITE

by Blueforce
in AI, AWS, C2, C4ISR, CBRN, Cognitive Services, Counter-Terrorism, Discovery, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Fusion, Interoperability, IoBT, IoT, ISR, K9, Machine Learning, Mobility, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Stream Analytics, Wearables

Blueforce helps cut through the onslaught of perishable edge IoT data by enabling collections of human, silicon, and AI endpoints that interact with the physical world with sense-making across the collective. Our new BlueforceLINUX IoT fusion platform was built to enable swarm intelligence in a soldier worn form factor and is optimized for CUBIC/DTECH's full line of tactical edge compute form factors, and screams on...

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November 22, 2020

Blueforce adds Recognitional Support for Edge Operations

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

Blueforce's new EDGEbox for Linux will Ship With Recognitional Plugins Given the tempo of operations and the collapsed decision space presented by increasingly non-predictive threats, we continue to hear a common refrain: decision makers want nothing to do with a big data problem when on target, or at an incident site. The “Commander” is too often drowning in data, yet desires an explicit collision of “sense-making”...

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October 18, 2020

Shared IoBT Targeting Solutions: Announcing the new Wilcox RAPTAR-S V3 Plugin for BlueforceTACTICAL

by Blueforce
in AI, autonomous agents, AWS, C4ISR, Cognitive Services, Common Operating Picture, Counter-Terrorism, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Fusion, Interoperability, IoBT, IoT, ISR, Law Enforcement, Machine Learning, Police, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Stream Analytics, Surveillance, Video, Wearables

Despite rapid advances in weapon-mounted digital optics, target acquisition through-the-optic, classification, and identification have changed very little. It comes down to the operator visually acquiring a target and assessing its friend/foe affiliation and threat potential. This “tried and true” methodology is vulnerable to several points of failure. The foremost vulnerability is reliance on the operator’s ability to classify and identify the target, which may appear...

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October 5, 2020

Blueforce WarpVideo Streaming Plugin: Ultra Low Latency Video Streaming for BTAC

by Blueforce
in AI, AWS, C2, Cognitive Services, Command, Counter-Terrorism, Edge, Low Latency, Situational Awareness, Video

Gaining real-time access to the wide array of video sources at an incident location has always been one of the "golden rings" of interest for on-scene Command. We largely trust our eyes and value visual confirmation as we consider the criticality and impacts of the decisions that need to be made. For incident-based video sources and the associated live streaming, low latency influences the sense...

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