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We work hand-in-hand with our clients to develop innovative solutions to address your complex challenges and help you get the most out of your technology investments.

10/30/2026

Terry Martin has spent 30+ years helping organizations build GIS programs.

The same problem followed him into every one: getting current, reliable data on the map.

We’re proud to share that Terry Martin has joined Bent Ear Solutions as a Data Services Sales Executive, where he’s focused on solving exactly that.

He’s seen the problem from a lot of angles:
✅ Helping the U.S. Air Force build GeoBase, the first standards-based, global enterprise GIS in the U.S. military, during his 17 years at Esri
✅ Managing Esri’s relationships with major water utilities
✅ Developing a “Cockpit” approach to designing GIS-based operations centers

Now he’s helping operations teams bring live power outage and risk intelligence data straight into ArcGIS, with new feeds on the way and no integration project required.

Welcome to the team, Terry! 👋

🔗 Read why Terry chose BES in his own words: https://bit.ly/47FyGj1

Running an operations center? Let’s talk about which live feeds fit your mission.

10/30/2026

📢 Bent Ear Solutions is hiring for four roles!

Our team keeps growing, and here's where we need people:

▸ Senior Project Manager
▸ Senior GIS Manager
▸ Senior GIS Analyst
▸ OSINT Analyst / Consultant

Each of these roles ends in the same place: a decision-maker who needs a clear answer before the situation changes again.

Our team takes complicated, fast-moving information and translates it into actionable answers for emergency managers, public safety agencies, and critical infrastructure operators nationwide.

Three things to know before you apply:
1. All four roles are hybrid in the Washington, DC area.
2. Every role requires the ability to obtain a security clearance. You don't need to hold one today.
3. Each posting lists its salary range, so you'll see the number up front.

If that sounds like you, apply below. If it sounds like someone you know, repost this so it reaches them. 🔁

🔗 Apply today: bit.ly/412Er7o

10/27/2026

🚨 Meet the BES team at !

Six of our team members will be in Long Beach for the International Association of Emergency Managers Annual Conference, Nov. 9 to 11.

Most agencies we talk to already have the pieces they need for a modern EOC: ArcGIS, Microsoft 365, and a shelf of written plans. BES connects them into one operating picture, with no new platform to buy.

At our booth, we'll show how it all works together under pressure from severe weather, coastal flooding, damage assessment, and a statewide activation.

📍 Find us at Booth 637, or reach out before Nov. 9 to set aside time.

10/26/2026

🎉 We’re excited to announce that Kasra Kazerounian is joining the BES team!

Kasra, or Kaz to most, joins us as a Consultant after earning his Political Science degree from the University of South Carolina, with a minor in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies.

His coursework focused on international affairs and Middle Eastern geopolitics while he studied Arabic. His Persian background gave him a strong foundation in Farsi and a lasting interest in the MENA region. During his studies, he also served as a Page for the South Carolina State Senate.

Outside the office, Kaz runs, plays pickup soccer and pickleball, and never misses a Carolina Panthers game. Panthers fans, he’d be glad to hear from you in the comments.

Welcome to BES, Kaz!

10/21/2026

🎉 We’re proud to welcome Sawyer DeMay to the BES team!

Sawyer joins us as an OSINT Analyst, with a B.S. in Intelligence Analysis and a minor in Criminal Justice from James Madison University.

Sawyer’s research centered on open-source intelligence, risk analysis, and hypothesis testing. She is most interested in where intelligence, national security, and technology meet, and the role calls for exactly that analytical mindset.

Outside the office, Sawyer just made the move to the DC area and is looking for new places to explore and new ways to stay active. If you have a favorite trail, run club, or park worth a weekend, leave it in the comments.

Welcome to BES, Sawyer!

10/20/2026

✈️ BES is headed to Palm Springs next week for Esri’s Infrastructure Management & GIS Conference (IMGIS)!

Russ Johnson, our CMO and Co-Founder, and Jordan Adams, Project Manager, will be on-site to meet with electric utility teams.

Russ spent 32 years as a Chief Fire Management Officer with the U.S. Forest Service. Jordan brings a background in electric utility systems and leads several key projects with electric utility leaders nationwide.

If your utility is working on storm and wildfire readiness, or wants more out of the ArcGIS it already owns, they’d like to hear what you’re working through.

📍 Find Russ or Jordan at the Palm Springs Convention Center, or message either of them before Tuesday to set aside time.

10/19/2026

A police map draws a street as one line.

A fire department map draws the same street as two parallel lines.

Law enforcement treats the street as a corridor for routing and perimeter control. Fire needs both sides of it. Hydrants sit on one side of the block, and an engine company has to know which side before it commits to an approach.

Both maps are correct. Each one follows its unique mission.

Now put both agencies in the same EOC, working from one common operating picture.

That picture can only draw the street one way. In most activations, the lead agency builds it, so the layers and symbols on screen reflect that agency's priorities. Every other agency at the table reads the event through that lens.

Add public health, public works, utilities, transportation, and mutual aid partners, and no single display can serve them all well.

In Common Data, Mission-Specific Pictures, the fourth essay in the Ground Truth series, James G. Featherstone argues for a different setup. Every agency pulls from the same shared data. Each one builds its own picture on top of it, tuned to its mission.

The article covers:
✅ Why the old telephone book held plenty of data and still couldn't answer the "where" questions emergency managers ask
✅ How a single COP ends up telling the lead agency's story
✅ What this model needs to work: shared data standards, a clear owner for every data layer, and leaders who back it
✅ Why the people most in need can still be the least visible in every agency's picture

Much of the technical work can be set up on the GIS and productivity tools agencies already license. The rest is a leadership call: coordinate through the data, and let each agency keep the map built for its mission.

Jim started with the Los Angeles Fire Department in 1986 and went on to lead the Los Angeles Emergency Management Department from 2007 to 2016.

🔗 Read the full article: https://bit.ly/4shoSoL

10/16/2026

States are carrying more of the emergency management mission.

Next week's NEMA Annual Forum agenda keeps coming back to it.

✅ The AI for Disasters and Emergencies workshop opens with states taking on more responsibility.
✅ Wednesday's rural power panel plans for federal disaster support that may shrink or arrive less predictably.
✅ On Thursday, Pennsylvania's director walks through an executive order that spells out who owns what across the Commonwealth.

New responsibility rarely arrives with new staff or a bigger budget.

Most of it lands on the team and the systems a state already has.

That's the problem BES works on with state programs. We connect the plans, data, and tools an agency already owns, so the same team can cover more ground.

Kentucky Emergency Management is one example. KYEM supports 120 counties.

KYEM now runs one statewide operating picture across all 120, built on ArcGIS and Microsoft 365. The state already owned both.

On Monday, Samantha Phillips and Ron Prater head to Little Rock for the National Emergency Management Association (NEMA) Annual Forum at the Statehouse Convention Center.

Samantha is our Executive Director of Mission Delivery. Before BES, she led the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency.

Ron, our COO and Co-Founder, was at last month's AIDE Summit working through a related question: what AI should do inside an EOC, and where it should stop.

If your state is figuring out how to carry more with what it already has, find Samantha or Ron in Little Rock.

Or send either of them a message before Monday, and they'll set aside time to talk.

10/07/2026

🎉 We're excited to welcome Savannah Walker to the BES team!

Savannah joins us as a Geospatial Analyst with a B.S. in Geography (Applied GIS), minors in Computer Science and Climate Science from James Madison University, and a USGIF certificate.

Her toolkit runs from ArcGIS Pro and Google Earth Engine to GPS field collection, built across research, government, nonprofit, and education projects. Image classification, geocoding, decision-support maps: the work that turns raw spatial data into something a decision-maker can act on.

Outside the office, Savannah likes to keep things cozy by cooking, baking, reading a good book, and a houseplant collection that keeps growing (in more ways than one). She is also always up for a board game or a crafting session.

Welcome to BES, Savannah!

🔗 See the roles we're hiring for: bit.ly/412Er7o

10/05/2026

Most wildfire decisions get made before anyone sees smoke.

Hours earlier, a team is watching the wind and how dry the vegetation has become.

They're deciding whether to stage crews, alert a community, or shut off power to a circuit before conditions turn.

Those calls come from a room full of expertise. Meteorologists run the forecasts and watch live station readings. Fire behavior specialists assess the fuels and terrain. Operations knows which circuits to switch off and how to keep the shutoff small. Outside the room, emergency managers need to know who loses power and who depends on it.

The hard part is pulling all of that into one risk picture, down to the circuit, while conditions are still changing.

And the decision has to hold up later, when regulators and the public ask why it was made.

That's the focus of our free webinar on Wednesday, October 14:

"Assessing Wildfire Risk Before It Escalates: Lessons from the Fire Line and the Sensor Network"

Russ Johnson, BES Co-Founder, spent 32 years as a Chief Fire Management Officer with the U.S. Forest Service.

Chris Arends of Western Weather Group is a former Navy meteorologist who built one of the first utility wildfire weather networks in the country.

In one hour, they'll walk through:

✅ The early warning signs experienced fire managers watch for, and how station data confirms or challenges them
✅ Why the location and calibration of a weather reading matter when a decision gets reviewed months later
✅ How to put live weather observations on the same map as your assets, crews, and high-risk areas

This session is built for utility wildfire mitigation and operations teams, and for the emergency managers who work alongside them.

🗓️ Wed, Oct 14 | 2–3 PM ET | Microsoft Teams
🔗 Register: https://bit.ly/3VbXCvt

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