Mary-Louise Hoffman
Lockheed Martin, Loen Engineering and Project Lifesaver International have partnered to help first responders utilize technologies to locate wandering or lost people with cognitive disorders.
The alliance’s goal is to integrate a Loen antenna system and a Project Lifesaver tracking device with Lockheed’s Indago unmanned aerial system for search and rescue of special needs persons should they wander from home, Lockheed said Monday.
“This partnership opens the aperture for unmanned systems to be used in critical search and rescue situations that aid public safety agencies with the important humanitarian mission targeting high-risk individuals,” said Dave Pringle, general manager of Lockheed’s Procerus Technologies subsidiary.
Gene Saunders, Project Lifesaver founder and CEO, said the organization aims to widen the coverage of missing-people search missions with an integrated aviation and locator technology.
The five-pound Indago UAS is designed to operate for up to 45 minutes and built with a collapsible structure, a quadrotor and an electro-optic infrared gimbaled imaging technology.
