Blueforce Development: Empowering Tactical Teams for Mission Success

In a world dominated by asymmetric threats, a split second’s delay in command decision can drive the success or failure of a mission. In such a scenario, ensuring that the right person at the right time receives actionable information is essential for mission success. Driven to empower homeland security and public safety teams with enhanced situational awareness, Blueforce Development is setting a new paradigm in real-time awareness through a software platform that facilitates tactical decision support leveraging commercially available computing hardware including Android and iOS mobile devices. “Blueforce offers a full-stack solution for situational awareness that can function independently or interoperate with third-party platforms, while enabling rapid adaptation through integration with an ever-evolving network of mobile devices, sensors and analytics packages,” says Bill Gellman, Chief Operating Officer, Blueforce Development.

The company’s Blueforce Tactical (BTAC) is a patented mobile software application that enables rich information sharing amongst team members. BTAC not only comes with a future-proof plug-in architecture but is extensible and integrates with a multitude of sensors and information services. The multi-sensor fusion capability, enables the autonomous fusion and sharing of data from numerous body-worn or carried sensor types including WMD detection, environmental sensing, and operator biotelemetry. With BTAC, sensors can now autonomously communicate not just geo-location, but also sensor driven, detailed end user status for a complete and shared awareness of each endpoint, freeing the responder from time-consuming verbal interactions with team members and distributed command and control.

With an autonomous services platform called Blueforce EDGE, the company also enables the ingest of data from unattended ground sensors, as well as platform borne (drones) or fixed in place sensors. Additionally, Blueforce Edge can integrate sophisticated 3rd party analytics packages such as facial recognition and threat detection algorithms. For superior synchronized planning and decision support, the company enables a single pane of glass common operating picture which combines this information to provide a consolidated operational view for commanders and operators at the edge.