Joseph Sullivan (First Responder Dispatch Innovation, Advances in Communication and the Future of Robots) - Episode 1243

Behind The Shield

James Geering

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Fitness

4.9 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2026

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

Joseph Sullivan is the founder of Active911, the emergency response platform trusted daily by first responders across the country for real-time incident coordination. He also founded Alyrica Networks, Nova Dynamics, and Daxbot, where his work focuses on deploying autonomous robotic systems into real-world environments. His background spans communications infrastructure, emergency operations, and robotics, with multiple patents in autonomous navigation and multi-agent decision-making systems. Sullivan currently serves as Director of Nova Dynamics and remains deeply involved in building operational technology for high-consequence environments.

Active911 is a respected leader in emergency communications and software, providing alerting, mapping, and scene resources for over 500,000 first responders worldwide. Based out of Western Oregon, we are proud to offer our services to the people that depend on us. Our focus is to take care of our brother and sister responders while our drive is to make sure you get the tools you need to get the job done and save lives easily and without distraction.

https://active911.com/

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Behind the Shield podcast, as always my name's James Gearing. And this week, it is my
0:04.2	absolute honor to welcome on the show, IT entrepreneur, software engineer, robotics expert, volunteer,
0:13.7	firefighter, and the founder of Active 911, Joseph Sullivan. Now, in this conversation, we discuss a host of topics.
0:23.6	From his journey into the world of computers, the evolution of the internet,
0:28.8	his experience in the volunteer fire service, solving some of the challenges he saw in the
0:34.4	communication space, his development of the active 911 platform, innovating dispatch,
0:42.4	taking communication into the future, and so much more. Now before we get to this incredible
0:48.2	conversation, as I say every week, please just take a moment. Go to whichever app you listen to
0:54.1	this on, subscribe to the show,
0:57.0	leave feedback and leave a rating. Every single five-star rating truly does elevate this podcast,
1:04.6	therefore making it easier for others to find. And this is a free library of well over 1,200 episodes now.
1:13.9	So all I ask in return is that you help share these incredible men and women's stories
1:19.6	so I can get them to every single person on planet Earth who needs to hear them.
1:26.1	So with that being said, I introduce to you Joseph
1:30.7	Sullivan. Enjoy. Well, Joe, I want to start by saying two things.
1:54.2	Firstly, thank you to our mutual friend Jeff for making this introduction in the first place.
1:58.9	And I want to welcome you on to the Behind
2:01.4	the Shield podcast today. Thank you. I appreciate it. So where on planet Earth are we finding
2:06.7	you this afternoon? So I'm in I'm in western Oregon just out. The town's called Falomith. It's a
2:14.1	little logging community. Corvallis is kind of what I normally tell people since it's it's the college town nearby. It's a little logging community. Corvallis is kind of what I normally tell people since it's the college town nearby. It's kind of a scenic area. There's a valley where there are a lot of agricultural things happening. There's some research. The Pacific Ocean is about 50 minutes away, maybe a little bit less. And skiing and mountains or maybe an hour, hour and a half in the other directions.
2:38.6	Western Oregon.
2:40.1	How have you been doing with the snow and the ski season?
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