Know your environment before your adversary does.
Passive device environment awareness that tells operators what wireless devices are present in their area of operations, detects anomalous infrastructure like rogue access points and IMSI catchers, identifies co-traveling device patterns, and assesses blue-force electronic exposure. Ubiquitous Technical Surveillance (UTS) for sanctioned observation operations - passive collection only, no active electronic warfare - giving you the same wireless picture an adversary would build, so you see it first.
The Problem
Your force radiates. Every phone, every Bluetooth device, every WiFi access point broadcasts presence data that an adversary can collect, correlate, and exploit. Most units have zero visibility into their own electronic signature or the surveillance infrastructure around them. A rogue AP near the TOC exfiltrates data. An IMSI catcher near the gate maps every phone that passes. A co-traveling device follows your patrol across three positions. You don't know because you've never looked. This is Ubiquitous Technical Surveillance - the adversary is already doing it to you. DFP gives you that same passive observation capability under sanctioned, auditable operations. No active EW. No jamming. Observation and assessment only - but with the depth to know what devices are present, where they are, who they belong to, and what that means for your security posture.
Who Has This Problem
Key Workflows
Capabilities
Platform Integration
DFP is its own analytical domain with its own workspace, ingest pipeline, and engines. It cross-correlates with EMSO (frequency, position, and time join for SDR corroboration), provides cellular RSRP ground-truth that calibrates EMSO propagation models, feeds the Policy Engine with 18 condition types for automated response, and renders collector positions and anomaly clusters on the COP. GNSS integrity observations complement SSA's space-side constellation awareness. Future integration with Cyber Operations via MAC address join and with Narrative Intelligence via geospatial device-to-identity correlation.
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