THE MODERN BASTION FOR CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE

Protecting what
cannot fail.

For centuries, bastions protected the most valuable assets inside a fortress. Today, Bastion Applied Sciences protects the infrastructure society depends on most — hospitals, schools, airports, financial institutions, federal facilities, and data centers — through a unified platform of intelligence, command, and response.

< 90s
MEAN TIME TO DECISION
99.99%
SOC UPTIME SLA
50 states
FIELD-TEAM COVERAGE
OPERATIONS CENTER · LIVE
14:02 UTC
14:02:11CRITFBO Miami — anomalous ramp ingress
14:01:48HIGHSavannah port — perimeter sensor 7B
14:01:22INFOProtectee N847VG wheels-down ATL
14:00:55MEDHouston ISD — visitor of interest
14:00:31INFOShift change · Watch Bravo on station
OPTEMPO · ELEVATEDALL LINKS NOMINAL

MERRIAM-WEBSTER

bas·tion / ˈbas-chən / noun

  1. 1 ·A projecting part of a fortification.
  2. 2 ·A fortified area or position.
  3. 3 ·Something that is considered the strongest defender or upholder of what is most valuable.

For centuries, bastions protected the most valuable assets inside a fortress. Today, Bastion Applied Sciences protects the infrastructure society depends on most.

PROTECTING CRITICAL ASSETS ACROSS

FORTUNE 100 BANKTIER-1 HEALTH SYSTEMSTATE UNIVERSITYPORT AUTHORITYREGIONAL AIRPORTK-12 DISTRICTFEDERAL FACILITY

ETYMOLOGY · DOCTRINE

What is a bastion?

BAS·TION · noun
A projecting part of a fortification — a fortified area or position — something that is considered the strongest defender or upholder of what is most valuable.
— MERRIAM-WEBSTER

For centuries, a bastion was the strongest and most strategically important part of a fortress — designed to protect critical assets, give defenders visibility, and create a decisive advantage against emerging threats.

Today, the world's bastions are no longer stone walls and fortifications. They are hospitals, schools, universities, airports, financial institutions, government facilities, data centers, and critical infrastructure. Bastion Applied Sciences exists to protect what modern society cannot afford to lose.

THE BASTION, THEN AND NOW

  • Citadel infirmaryModern hospital
  • Harbor watchtowerMajor airport / FBO
  • Monastery libraryResearch university
  • Royal keepFederal facility
  • Treasury vaultFinancial operations center
  • Signal towerData center

A stronghold of intelligence, command, and response for the organizations society depends upon most.

THE PLATFORM

One operating system. Three tiers of response.

Bastion Applied Sciences is not a guarding company or a camera vendor. We are a national critical-asset protection platform — operations centers, AI, and operators working as one.

TIER 1

National Security Operations Centers

24/7 remote command. Threat monitoring, protective intelligence, incident management, and decision support across every protected facility.

  • 3 hardened SOCs
  • Geo-redundant
  • Watch Officer model
TIER 2

AI-Assisted Decision Layer

Detection to decision to action. Bastion Applied Sciences correlates sensor, OSINT, and human signals, then recommends courses of action with full audit trail.

  • Sub-minute triage
  • Explainable outputs
  • Human-in-the-loop
TIER 3

Deployable Field Operations

Vetted, trained operators in 50 states. Executive protection, rapid response, investigations, and on-site posts dispatched from the SOC.

  • < 30 min metro response
  • Federally cleared cadre
  • Armed & unarmed

SOLUTIONS

The modern bastions we protect.

From the classroom to the trading floor, from the ER to the runway — these are the institutions society cannot afford to lose. Bastion Applied Sciences provides mission assurance, protective intelligence, and operational resilience for each.

School campus at dusk with perimeter security camera

K-12 & Higher Ed

Active-threat detection, visitor management, campus-wide situational awareness.

DETAILS
Hospital emergency department entrance at night

Healthcare

Workplace-violence prevention, infant protection, ED de-escalation support.

DETAILS
Downtown bank skyscraper at blue hour

Banking & Finance

Branch, ATM, and HQ protection with regulatory-grade incident records.

DETAILS
Private jet on FBO ramp at dusk

Aviation & FBOs

Ramp security, protectee movement, ADS-B fused common operating picture.

DETAILS
Container port and gantry cranes at night

Maritime & Ports

Perimeter sensors, vessel risk scoring, container anomaly detection.

DETAILS
Federal government building with American flag at dusk

Federal & Critical Infrastructure

Hardened facilities, cleared operators, CJIS-ready data handling.

DETAILS

DEPLOYMENT

Start-to-finish installation. One contract. One throat to choke.

Bastion Applied Sciences designs, installs, integrates, and operates the physical security stack for every site we protect. Servers, cameras, sensors, access control, mass-notification, and the network that ties them together — all engineered as one system, owned end-to-end by the same team that monitors it 24/7.

Ubiquiti UniFi server room powering an enterprise-scale Bastion Applied Sciences deployment
  1. 01 · ASSESS

    Threat & Vulnerability Assessment

    Licensed assessors walk every door, camera blind-spot, and approach route. We model adversary paths, response times, and single points of failure.

    • ·Site survey report
    • ·CPTED review
    • ·Gap analysis vs. NFPA 3000 / Clery / Joint Commission
  2. 02 · DESIGN

    Systems Engineering & Network Design

    PE-stamped drawings for low-voltage, IP backbone, edge compute, power, and failover. Designed to survive WAN loss and primary power loss.

    • ·Riser & rack elevations
    • ·VLAN / segmentation plan
    • ·Cyber-hardening spec (NIST 800-53 aligned)
  3. 03 · INSTALL

    Build-Out & Integration

    Our own crews run cable, mount devices, rack the servers, and integrate every subsystem into the Bastion Applied Sciences platform — no finger-pointing between trades.

    • ·Structured cabling (Cat6A / OM4)
    • ·Edge servers & VMS
    • ·Access control, intrusion, video, audio, mass-notify
  4. 04 · TRAIN

    Operator & Stakeholder Training

    Tabletop exercises, run-the-drill scenarios, and ride-alongs with the SOC. Admins, security staff, and first responders all train on the actual system.

    • ·Live drill program
    • ·Run-books per facility
    • ·Annual recertification
  5. 05 · SUSTAIN

    24/7 Monitoring & Lifecycle Care

    From day one of go-live, the SOC owns the system. Health monitoring, firmware, spares, and field-tech response are bundled — not a separate contract.

    • ·4-hour on-site SLA (metro)
    • ·Quarterly health reviews
    • ·Hardware refresh roadmap

THE INSTALLED STACK

One vendor. One console. Engineered to fail safe.

Bastion Applied Sciences standardizes every site on the Ubiquiti UniFi ecosystem — Protect cameras, Access control, WiFi 7, switching, and Talk — all administered from a single Dream Machine Pro Max. One stack to harden, patch, and monitor. No license-per-camera tax. No vendor finger-pointing.

UNIFI PROTECT

AI Pro, G5 Bullet, G5 PTZ, and AI Theta cameras. On-prem NVR, license-plate, person & weapon detection — zero cloud subscription.

UNIFI DREAM MACHINE PRO MAX

Single-pane controller for network, Protect, Access, Talk, and Identity. Hardware-accelerated IDS/IPS at 10 Gbps.

UNIFI WIFI 7

U7 Pro Max and U7 Pro Wall access points. PoE++, BSS coloring, and seamless roaming across every protected floor.

UNIFI ACCESS

G3 Readers, UA Hub, UA Intercom. NFC, mobile credential, and biometric — managed in the same UniFi console.

UNIFI GATEWAY & SWITCHING

Pro Max 48 PoE switches, SmartPower PDUs, and EdgePower DC backup. Layer-3 routing with per-port telemetry to the SOC.

UNIFI TALK & EWC

Talk handsets and Connect EV digital signage push lockdown audio and visual alerts on the same converged Ubiquiti backbone.

Hospital corridor under automated lockdown with red emergency alerts

MASS-CASUALTY PREVENTION

Lockdown that thinks faster than the threat.

In an active-assailant event, every second past detection costs lives. Bastion Applied Sciences integrates detection, automated lockdown, mass notification, and law-enforcement hand-off into a single sub-30-second sequence — engineered against the timelines documented in FBI active-shooter after-action reports.

< 1s
DETECTION-TO-SOC
< 3s
LOCKDOWN INITIATED
< 5s
911 + OCCUPANT ALERT
100%
EVENTS AUDIT-LOGGED

FOUR WAYS TO TRIGGER

Detection is redundant by design.

No single sensor or human decision is on the critical path. The first signal wins.

  • Gunshot detected (acoustic + RF)
  • Weapon visually identified by AI
  • Panic button (wall, mobile, wearable)
  • Verbal threat triaged by Watch Officer

    LOCKDOWN SEQUENCE · T+0 → T+30s

    • T+0s
      TRIGGER

      Any of four detection paths fires. Event hits the SOC in under one second.

    • T+3s
      AUTO-LOCK

      Interior and perimeter doors lock by zone. HVAC dampers close on chem/bio profile.

    • T+5s
      NOTIFY

      Plain-language alerts push to PA, SMS, desktops, signage, and 911 CAD simultaneously.

    • T+8s
      TRACK

      AI follows the threat across every camera. Floor plan shows live position to responders.

    • T+12s
      GUIDE

      Occupants get room-specific run/hide/fight instructions. Safe-zone maps go to phones.

    • T+30s
      HAND-OFF

      Live feed, floor plan, and suspect description handed to first-arriving law enforcement.

Built to the standards that matter.

NFPA 3000 (Active Shooter / Hostile Event Response) · Alyssa's Law · Clery Act · Joint Commission EM · CISA K-12 School Security Guide.

DRILLED QUARTERLY · AUDIT-LOGGED ALWAYS

AERIAL & COUNTER-AERIAL

AI drones overhead. Counter-drone systems on the ground.

Bastion Applied Sciences operates a vetted fleet of enterprise-grade AI surveillance UAS, dock-based first-responder drones, and non-kinetic counter-UAS systems. Every flight is planned, logged, and fused into the same Watch Floor that runs your cameras, sensors, and lockdown sequence — one operating picture from rooftop to ramp.

AI surveillance drone hovering over a critical infrastructure facility at dusk
ISR · MULTI-SENSOR AI

Flagship Multi-Sensor Intelligent UAS

Compact enterprise quad-rotor flying a paired wide-angle (24 mm, 48 MP, f/1.7), medium-tele (70 mm), and tele (168 mm) camera stack with a 640×512 radiometric thermal and integrated laser range-finder. On-board AI performs smart detection, target tracking, and live measurement of distance, area, and coordinates — built for public safety, emergency response, and critical-infrastructure inspection.

  • ·48 MP · 4/3 CMOS mechanical shutter
  • ·640×512 radiometric thermal
  • ·Laser range-finder to 1.8 km
  • ·Smart Detection & Measurement AI
DRONE AS FIRST RESPONDER

Dock-Based DFR Program

An always-on rooftop or vehicle-mounted dock launches an autonomous aircraft the instant a 911 call, alarm, or sensor trigger fires — putting live, evidence-grade aerial video over the scene before the first patrol unit arrives. Footage streams into the Watch Floor, into responding officer body-cam ecosystems, and into the agency's digital evidence record.

  • ·24/7 unmanned remote operations
  • ·Fixed rooftop or vehicle-mounted dock
  • ·Live stream to SOC, CAD, and body-cam ecosystem
  • ·Auto-charge · auto-return · weather-rated
COUNTER-UAS · NON-KINETIC

RF + Radar Detect-Track-Defeat

Passive RF, micro-Doppler radar, and acoustic sensors fingerprint hostile drones by make, model, serial, and operator GPS within seconds of takeoff. Authorized federal and critical-infrastructure sites layer directional RF mitigation to safely ground, redirect, or force-land threats under FAA / DoD coordination.

  • ·Detects 600+ commercial UAS profiles
  • ·Operator + home-point geolocation
  • ·Remote ID + cooperative aircraft de-confliction
  • ·Fused into the same Watch Floor as cameras and sensors
TACTICAL · NON-LETHAL · LE-ONLY

Indoor Tactical Payload Platform

For sworn law-enforcement partners only: small indoor airframes capable of deploying conducted-energy weapons and chemical-irritant payloads against barricaded subjects and active-assailant scenarios. Every flight is two-officer authorized, body-cam synchronized, and written to the agency's digital evidence chain — bound to documented use-of-force policy.

  • ·Sworn-LE deployment only
  • ·Two-officer authorization required
  • ·Body-cam + CAD time-sync
  • ·Full digital evidence chain of custody

PROGRAM CAPABILITIES

A managed drone program, not a box of toys.

ON-BOARD AI

Smart Detection & Measurement: person, vehicle, weapon, license-plate, and behavior classification running at the edge — no cloud dependency on the critical path.

C-UAS SENSING

RF, micro-Doppler radar, and acoustic fusion classify hostile aircraft, geolocate the operator, and decode Remote ID in seconds.

ENCRYPTED C2

AES-256 command and OcuSync-class video links with ultra-long-range transmission, frequency-hopping, and full local-recording fallback.

ALWAYS-ON DOCK

Rooftop and vehicle-mounted weatherproof docks with intelligent auto-charging, scheduled patrols, and one-tap DFR launches from the Watch Floor.

EVIDENCE-GRADE

Every flight, sensor frame, and operator action is time-synced and written to the agency's digital evidence ecosystem — discovery-ready out of the box.

AIRSPACE OPS

FAA Part 107 / 137 / waivers, BVLOS authorizations, LAANC, and Remote ID compliance handled by Bastion Applied Sciences flight operations.

All UAS operations conducted under FAA Part 107 (and Part 137 / COA / 44809 as applicable), with Remote ID, LAANC authorization, and FAA-coordinated counter-UAS mitigation reserved for authorized federal partners. Non-lethal payload deployment is restricted to sworn law-enforcement agencies under written policy.

OPERATIONS MODEL

From detection to decision to action.

A single playbook spans the entire incident lifecycle — and a single record-of-truth follows it from sensor ping to after-action.

  1. 01

    DETECT

    Sensors, OSINT, tips, and human reporting stream into the unified intelligence layer.

  2. 02

    DECIDE

    AI triages, correlates, and proposes courses of action to the Watch Officer.

  3. 03

    ACT

    Notify, dispatch, escalate. Field operators on scene with full context in hand.

  4. 04

    ASSURE

    Every event timestamped, narrated, and auditable end-to-end.

WORKFLOWS · AI · ANALYTICS

How signal becomes decision.

Bastion Applied Sciences is not one model behind a chat box. It is a workflow engine, a multi-modal AI stack, and a protective-intelligence analytics layer — wired together so every alert has a playbook, every escalation has a reason, and every decision has a record.

WORKFLOW

Watch Officer Runbooks

Every alert class — perimeter breach, medical, active threat, BOLO match, drone incursion — has a codified playbook. The AI proposes the next step; the Watch Officer confirms or overrides. Every divergence is logged.

  • 120+ CODIFIED PLAYBOOKS
  • ROLE-BASED AUTHORIZATIONS
  • FULL DIVERGENCE AUDIT
AI MODELS

Multi-Modal Detection Stack

Vision models for person/vehicle/weapon/PPE attributes, audio models for gunshot and aggression, NLP for OSINT and tipline triage, and behavior models for loitering, tailgating, and crowd anomalies — all fused at the edge and in the cloud.

  • VISION · AUDIO · NLP · BEHAVIOR
  • EDGE + CLOUD INFERENCE
  • ON-PREM OPTION FOR SENSITIVE SITES
ALGORITHMS

Correlation & Scoring

Multi-source correlation links a face, a plate, an OSINT signal, and a prior incident into a single entity. Risk is scored with explainable, weighted features — not a black box — so Watch Officers can defend every escalation.

  • ENTITY RESOLUTION ACROSS FEEDS
  • EXPLAINABLE RISK SCORING
  • HUMAN-IN-THE-LOOP CALIBRATION
ANALYTICS

Protective Intelligence Analytics

Trend analysis across sites, time-of-day risk surfaces, response-time SLAs, false-positive tuning, and threat-actor pattern-of-life. Quarterly intelligence reviews delivered to security leadership.

  • TIME-SERIES + GEOSPATIAL
  • SLA DASHBOARDS
  • QUARTERLY THREAT REVIEWS

THE STACK · END-TO-END

DATA LAYER

Time-series sensor, video metadata, CAD, OSINT, HR/visitor systems — normalized into a single incident graph.

FUSION

Cross-feed entity resolution links people, vehicles, locations, and prior events into one record-of-truth.

INFERENCE

Vision, audio, NLP, and behavior models score events in milliseconds at the edge, reconciled in the SOC.

DECISION TREE

Codified playbooks turn a score into a recommended next action with required authorizations.

EVIDENCE

Every signal, model output, override, and dispatch is timestamped and discovery-ready.

FEEDBACK

Watch Officer overrides retrain thresholds; false-positive rates and SLAs trend on the leadership dashboard.

DOCTRINE

“Detection without decision is noise.
Decision without action is liability.”

— BASTION APPLIED SCIENCES OPERATING DOCTRINE · § 1.1

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