Operation Blue Shield

Earlier this year, we officially launched Operation Blue Shield (OBS) with Los Angeles Police Department Metropolitan D-Platoon. OBS is pilot program designed to provide a complete solution to occupational blast exposure monitoring (BEMO) to high-risk SWAT operators and other first responders who train tirelessly to be ready for any threat they may encounter in cities and rural areas all over the US. The Department of Defense has spent years and millions of dollars trying to understand the effects of blast-related concussion and are now in the process of rolling out an occupational blast monitoring program for service members. BEMO is as simple as wearing a pager and can provide critical information that may optimize an officer’s effectiveness and longevity throughout their career. Education is the first step to help minimize blast exposure during training, while blast surveillance provides information to train smarter and supporting exposure data if an operator experiences blast-related concussion. We launched a campaign on GOFUNDME to fund the program to subsidize associated costs of the program for departments and officers who sign-up for the program.  

Program Options 

Phase 1

•Education: Workshop on Blast and Acoustic Exposure (In-person/Online/Hybrid) 

•Training Schedule Review 

•Munition Assessment 

Phase 2

•Site Survey / 3D LiDAR Mapping for Mission Planning •

Small Arms & Device Weapon Mapping 

•Cognitive Surveillance (Optional) 

Phase 3

•Operational Surveillance (6 months) 

•Blast Gauge Deployment 

•Blast surveillance reports