Public Safety Canada has selected Kongsberg Geospatial, Larus Technologies, and the Civil Air Search and Rescue Association of Canada (CASARA) to help develop new methods for using drones in search and rescue operations in remote communities in Canada using geospatial software, artificial intelligence, and machine vision software. Dubbed OVERSEE—an acronym for Optical Vision Enhancement and Refinement of Sensor Exploitation Effectiveness—the project will seek to address the unique challenges of conducting search and rescue operations using UAS platforms in remote areas such as indigenous communities in the Arctic and their immediate surrounding area. 

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GA-ASI has spent the last nine years building deep experience with polymer-based additive technologies. Over the last few years, the company has made improvements in the development of its metal additive roadmap, as well as a dedicated additive manufacturing team. After establishing the required ecosystem requirements to develop its metal additive manufacturing application space, the GA-ASI Additive Manufacturing (AM) team identified a series of parts and families of applications that had potential favorable business cases. 

In Sweden, autonomous drone technology company Everdrone has announced that it is now using UAS to deliver Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) to the scene of cardiac arrests, which will allow bystanders to initiate life-saving measures while they wait for professional medical care. Everdrone notes that each year, out-of-hospital cardiac arrests affect approximately 275,000 individuals in Europe. The survival rate in these instances is about 10 percent, but that number could increase to as much as 70 percent when CPR and early defibrillation is initiated within the first few minutes, according to research.