NASA Aeronautics Research Institute

The TVF Roadmap “Public Services Working Group” is tasked with defining activities in appropriate timeframes that would lead to the creation of a national capability for TVF enabled search and rescue, law enforcement, medical transport, emergency/humanitarian response, and military operations. These activities need to be defined, sequenced, integrated, and explained with sufficient clarity to make a compelling case for pursuing this capability.

Future search and rescue will become a combination of man-sized drone(E-VTOL) and  longer endurance small drones. For example, if we are looking for people in the water, in the ocean, something happened to their boat, one best way to do it is to send out a fleet of drones using DroneInch autonomous software to pre-program the search pattern. We can coordinate and if we send out six of them with each one covering certain area, we can be much more time efficient and map out the whole search area. Once we find the person we can send a boat out or drop a life raft.