News & Updates

  • BES WELCOMES FORMER FEMA ADMINISTRATOR DEANNE CRISWELL

    12 September 2026

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  • BES Data Services on Stage at Esri's User Conference

    17 July 2026

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  • BES Welcomes Jamie Jacobs as Director of Technical Services

    23 June 2026

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  • James 'Jim' Featherstone announces blog series with BES

    6 June 2026

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  • Craig Fugate announces Newsletter for the EM community

    3 May 2026

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  • BES Recognized by Inc. regional ranking for 3rd consecutive year

    2 April 2026

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  • BES & Whisker Labs Provide free Access to ting data during severe storm

    22 January 2026

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  • Logos of SAMDESK on the left and BES on the right with a vertical line between them, on a white background with rounded corners.

    BES & Samdesk Partner to Bring Real-Time Risk Detection to Utilities

    21 November 2025

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  • Logo for The Alerting Authority with the slogan 'Every Second Has a Story' and Bent Ear Solutions logo on a dark blue background.

    BES Sponsors Inaugural Alerting Authority Podcast Episode with Fugate

    17 November 2025

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  • A digital graphic featuring the logo of Bentear Solutions at the top, with two circular photos below it. The first photo shows a bald man in a suit and tie, smiling, with the name Alan Bradshaw beside it. The second photo shows a woman with shoulder-length brown hair, also smiling, with the name Beth Bartholomew beside it. The background includes an illustration of a power line tower.

    BES Expands executive consulting team with utility industry leaders

    7 October 2025

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  • Logo of Bent Ear Solutions and Whisker Labs over a stylized waveform graphic on a dark blue background.

    partnership with whisker labs provides unrivaled grid intelligence

    13 August 2025

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  • Logo for Inc. 5000, an awards program for America's fastest-growing private companies, with a black background and colorful text.

    Celebrating four straight years on inc. 5000

    8 August 2025

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  • A map of the United States with the Mid-Atlantic region highlighted. A marker with a logo is placed over the Mid-Atlantic region. Text at the top reads 'Inc. Regional'. At the bottom, it says '#42 Mid-Atlantic'.

    BES Jumps 30 Spots in Inc. Magazine Regional Ranking

    8 April, 2025

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  • Logo for Inc. 5000, an American fast-growing private companies list, with a black background, white circular border, and colorful text: 'inc.' in black, '5' in orange, '000' in blue.

    Bes recognized on inc. 5000 for 3rd consecutive year

    13 August, 2024

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  • Map of the United States highlighting the Mid-Atlantic region with a marker showing a logo, and labeled as #72 Inc. Regionals.

    BES RANKED NO. 72 BY INC. MAGAZINE

    4 March, 2024

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  • Vet 100 award badge for fastest growing veteran owned business, Inc. 5000 list 2024.

    BES NAMED TO INC. MAGAZINE’S VET100

    13 November, 2023

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Blogs & Articles  

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BES Engages Electric Utility GIS Pioneer Bill Meehan for Executive Consulting 
BES Engages Electric Utility GIS Pioneer Bill Meehan for Executive Consulting 

BES is working with utility GIS pioneer Bill Meehan, PE, through WJM Electric Consulting LLC as an independent Executive Consultant on select utility engagements.

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BES Welcomes 30-Year Geospatial Leader Terry Martin to Its Data Services Program
BES Welcomes 30-Year Geospatial Leader Terry Martin to Its Data Services Program

Terry Martin, who helped the U.S. Air Force build its GeoBase enterprise GIS, joins BES as Data Services Sales Executive to grow its live, ArcGIS-ready data feeds.

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Common Data, Mission-Specific Pictures: Rethinking the Common Operating Picture for Multi-Agency Crisis Response
Common Data, Mission-Specific Pictures: Rethinking the Common Operating Picture for Multi-Agency Crisis Response

The common operating picture forces every agency to see a crisis through one lens. Jim Featherstone argues for shared data, not mission-specific pictures.

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BES WELCOMES FORMER FEMA ADMINISTRATOR DEANNE CRISWELL AS EXECUTIVE CONSULTANT
BES WELCOMES FORMER FEMA ADMINISTRATOR DEANNE CRISWELL AS EXECUTIVE CONSULTANT

Former FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell now advises BES clients on readiness, activation, and recovery, joining Craig Fugate and the Executive Consulting Team

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Web AppBuilder is retiring. Your hazmat response tool might be, too. 
Web AppBuilder is retiring. Your hazmat response tool might be, too. 

Web AppBuilder apps freeze in Q4 2026, months before the 2027 retirement date, and if your responders rely on it through widgets, the time to plan is now.

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Bent Ear Solutions Named to INC. 5000 for Fifth Consecutive Year
Bent Ear Solutions Named to INC. 5000 for Fifth Consecutive Year

BES recognized by Inc. Magazine for five straight years of exponential growth.

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Shrinking the Red Slice
Shrinking the Red Slice

Every emergency plan has a red slice: the unknown unknowns you can't see. Jim Featherstone discusses the two mechanisms that shrink it before a disaster finds them.

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BES Data Services & Ting Insights on The Big Stage
BES Data Services & Ting Insights on The Big Stage

Geospatial data services are becoming operational infrastructure, and BES's Ting-powered power outage feed, featured at Esri UC 2026, is the first entry in a growing catalog built for the tools practitioners already use.

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BES Partners with Balor Analytics to Expand New Generation of Operational Data Services
BES Partners with Balor Analytics to Expand New Generation of Operational Data Services

BES has partners with Balor Analytics to deliver a new generation of data services that gets clean, validated, decision-ready information to public safety leaders.

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Your EOC Already has The Technology it Needs
Your EOC Already has The Technology it Needs

How Kentucky Emergency Management built a statewide common operating picture across all 120 counties without buying a new platform, plus a new hire, Craig Fugate's unfiltered column, the Ground Truth series, open roles, and where to find BES at Esri's summits.

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Your Plan Is Only as Good as Its Worst Assumption
Your Plan Is Only as Good as Its Worst Assumption

Frameworks vs. plans in crisis management, real-time outage data during Winter Storm Fern, Inc. Regionals three years running, and open positions at BES.

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Leading Innovation in Grid Intelligence with Ting Insights
Leading Innovation in Grid Intelligence with Ting Insights

BES partners with Whisker Labs to deliver real-time power outage data, expands the executive consulting team, and enters IAEM 2025 as a top-tier Driving Partner.

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Confident Resilience: How BES Is Handling Hurricane Season
Confident Resilience: How BES Is Handling Hurricane Season

BES partners with FloodMapp for hurricane season readiness, Craig Fugate and Greg Brunelle on situational awareness, open EM positions, and why one-size-fits-all fails.

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It's Preparedness Season: National Preparedness Month Recap and IAEM 2024
It's Preparedness Season: National Preparedness Month Recap and IAEM 2024

BES partners with FloodMapp for hurricane season readiness, Craig Fugate and Greg Brunelle on situational awareness, open EM positions, and why one-size-fits-all fails.

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What Every Emergency Manager Needs to Know About Emergency Alerts & Warnings
What Every Emergency Manager Needs to Know About Emergency Alerts & Warnings

Join BES, the University at Albany, and FEMA IPAWS for a free virtual webinar on the social science behind effective emergency alerts — including wildfire warnings, missing persons alerts, jargon, and the Message Design Dashboard.

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