Air
Group 2 aircraft — and a planned long-range Group 3 platform — flying thermal search and mapping.
See the air systems →Mission · In development
Shorten the time from launch to located.
In a search, coverage and speed save lives. The platform is being designed to sweep large, difficult areas with thermal sensing and autonomous patterns — and to relay communications where terrain has cut them off.
The outcome
Search and rescue is a race against terrain, weather and daylight. Crews need thorough coverage of large areas, the ability to see a person in dense forest or water, and communications that survive where the terrain does not cooperate.
The Mission Intelligence Platform is being designed to fly efficient autonomous search patterns, detect heat signatures against a cluttered background, and act as a communications relay for the teams on the ground — with a long-range Group 3 platform on the roadmap for the hardest reaches.
Designed to enable
- Cover large, difficult search areas quickly and thoroughly
- See a person where the naked eye and daylight fail
- Keep dispersed teams connected through a communications relay
- Deliver supplies or relay equipment into places crews cannot easily reach
Where the platform draws from
This outcome is not one vehicle. The Mission Intelligence Platform draws on whichever operating domains fit the job.
Maritime
Surface systems extending search and recovery support over water.
See the maritime systems →Distributed
Deployable communications relays that keep teams connected across broken terrain.
See the distributed systems →The intelligence behind it
Sensing and AI woven in where they earn their place — as recommendations to a qualified human, never an autonomous decision to act.
Thermal and multispectral sensing
Day/night imaging designed to pick a human signature out of forest, rubble or water.
Terrain mapping
Rapid, current maps of the search area to focus effort and coordinate teams.
Autonomous search patterns
Adaptive coverage of large areas so no ground is missed, inside operator-set limits.
Anomaly detection
Learned models that flag the signature that stands out from the background.
Development posture
What we can say now.
Mission
Search & Rescue
Status
Capability in development — designed to enable this outcome, not a fielded deployment
Operating domains
Air, Maritime, Distributed
Human authority
Effects and prioritization remain under authorized human control, within applicable law and rules of engagement
Mission outcomes describe design intent for a pre-production program. Measured performance will be published by configuration as engineering and test mature.
Other missions the platform is built for
One Mission Intelligence Platform, pointed at more than one problem.
Government · allied · industry
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We are building around real operating requirements and integration constraints.
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