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February 6, 2023

Virtual ICS Checkin: New Capability for Adaptive ICS Module for BlueforceCOMMAND

by Blueforce
in AI, autonomous agents, C2, Campus Security, Command, Common Operating Picture, Counter-Terrorism, Dashboard, Disaster Response, Discovery, Edge, Emergency Management, Emergency Notification, ICS, Interoperability, IoT, ISR, JADC2, Law Enforcement, MCPTT, NIMS, Orchestration, Police, Safety, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Swarm Intelligence

The Incident Command System (ICS) is a standardized, on-scene, all-hazards incident management concept. It was developed in the 1970s by firefighting agencies in the United States as a means of effectively managing incidents involving multiple agencies and organizations. The ICS provides a common structure and terminology for incident management and is designed to be scalable, so that it can be used for incidents ranging from...

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January 6, 2023

Adaptive Incident Command Module for BlueforceCOMMAND

by Blueforce
in autonomous agents, Common Operating Picture, Counter-Terrorism, Dashboard, Disaster Response, Edge, Emergency Management, Emergency Notification, GIS, ICS, Interoperability, IoBT, IoT, ISR, Machine Learning, MCPTT, Mobility, NIMS, PTT, Recovery, Security, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Swarm Intelligence

Incidents and the subsequent emergency responses can be chaotic, especially when they involve multiple agencies and organizations that need to work together to respond to the crisis. In such situations, there may be confusion about roles and responsibilities, communication breakdowns, and a lack of coordination. Shortly after 9/11, the U.S. government commissioned programs that ultimately led to the National Incident Management (NIMS) framework which defines...

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December 18, 2022

Blueforce Plugin Series: Orchestration Targets

by Blueforce
in AI, autonomous agents, Campus Security, Command, Common Operating Picture, Disaster Response, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Emergency Management, Emergency Notification, Fusion, Interoperability, IoBT, IoT, ISR, Location, Occupational Safety, Safety, School Safety, Security, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Wearables

The Internet of Things (IoT), by definition, is a wide array of “things” that can connect and exchange data over a network. This “network” can take many forms to include the “big” internet, an enterprise network, and in most places where we work, a closed network “bubble”. The reality is that once many organizations begin to leverage “sensing”, it becomes clear very quickly that exchanging...

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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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July 30, 2022

Blueforce partners with Arcanum Africa to deliver Blueforce’s edge IoT fusion and shared situational awareness software to the South African market

by Blueforce
in AI, C2, C4ISR, Cognitive Services, Command, Common Operating Picture, Counter-Terrorism, Disaster Response, Distributed Sensing, Fire, Interoperability, IoT, Lone Worker, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Swarm Intelligence, Video

Arcanum Africa and Blueforce Development Corporation have signed a reseller agreement for Arcanum to bring Blueforce into defense, public safety, personal security, and wildlife/environmental protection in South Africa. Arcanum provides a variety of products and professional services which include state of the art AI and computer vision using interior and exterior autonomous smart drones, broad area mesh communications, ruggedized surveillance systems, and now the entire...

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July 18, 2022

The First 72 Hours: The Need for Rapid Mobile Command

by Blueforce
in AI, C2, C4ISR, Cognitive Services, Command, Common Operating Picture, Disaster Response, Discovery, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Emergency Management, Fire, Interoperability, IoT, ISR, MCPTT, Recovery, Situational Awareness, Sustainment, Swarm Intelligence

The first 72 hours after a natural/manmade disaster are critical hours that make or break the speed of recovery. Power is gone. Terrestrial communications are denied if available at all. Worse, a nonpredictive inter-agency mash-up is about to hit and with it comes an interoperability nightmare. The ability to positively impact recovery requires communications and the rapid standup of mobile command in denied, disparate, and...

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April 16, 2022

Blueforce announces support for Sierra Wireless Mobile Routers for Asset Tracking and Real-time Status of Health

by Blueforce
in AI, autonomous agents, C2, C4ISR, Command, Common Operating Picture, Dashboard, Disaster Response, Discovery, Emergency Management, IoBT, IoT, Law Enforcement, Location, Mobility, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Stream Analytics

Complex emergency management is fundamentally a lesson in organized chaos where accountability is a core foundational element of shared situational awareness. Knowing where to find what you need can be as chaotic given that response assets — the vehicles, equipment, autonomous platforms — are rarely in one place and scattered throughout an area of operation. Asset inventory coupled with resources and capability on a "single...

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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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March 5, 2022

Mobile Command in a Box: BlueforceMOBILE-CP, powered by T-Mobile

by Blueforce
in autonomous agents, C2, CBRN, Common Operating Picture, Dashboard, Disaster Response, Edge, Emergency Management, Fire, GIS, Interoperability, IoT, ISR, K9, Law Enforcement, Low Latency, Recovery, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Video, Wearables

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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March 3, 2022

Blueforce Severe Weather Alert Micro-Service for BlueforceEDGE

by Blueforce
in C2, C4ISR, Command, Common Operating Picture, Dashboard, Disaster Response, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Emergency Management, Emergency Notification, Fire, GIS, HAZLOC, Heat, Interoperability, IoBT, IoT, ISR, K9, Law Enforcement, Location, Mobility, Occupational Safety, Police, Sensors, Situational Awareness

The relationship between weather and emergency management (not to mention emergency preparedness) is fundamental and can be quite complicated. Weather causes many of the disasters that require an emergency response, yet awareness of conditions is essential for management of incidents unrelated to weather as the cause. For sure, meteorological awareness can have a profound effect managing the extent of destruction to life and property to...

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