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First Alert

Real-time OSINT event and threat alerts for police, military and intelligence.

First Alert is Dataminr's public-sector product that delivers real-time breaking-event and threat alerts to law enforcement, emergency management, defense and diplomatic-security agencies by applying AI to the Twitter/X firehose and 1M+ public data sources. It surfaces protests, attacks, disasters and force-protection incidents as they unfold, and has been documented tipping police to the whereabouts and actions of demonstrators during the George Floyd/BLM protests.

What it does

  • AI OSINT event detection from social media + 1M+ sources
  • Real-time protest, threat and incident alerting
  • Geospatial situational awareness (Esri ArcGIS maps)
  • Force protection & diplomatic-security monitoring
  • 150K+ users across 190+ countries

Where it's deployed

  • U.S. Air Force
  • U.S. Department of Defense
  • DISA
  • FEMA Region 2
  • LAPD
  • U.S. Secret Service

Agencies using it

DoDLocal LEUSSS

Sources

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