GoAERO Announce Collaboration with AIRT “to Develop Aerial Emergency Response Innovations”

GoAERO, an organ­i­sa­tion known for its Glob­al Com­pe­ti­tion Award for improv­ing dis­as­ter respons­es and pub­lic safe­ty, announced this week a col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Air­borne Inter­na­tion­al Response Team (AIRT), reports a press release.

This part­ner­ship aims “to accel­er­ate the devel­op­ment and appli­ca­tion of uncrewed Emer­gency Response Fly­ers, which under­lines a shared com­mit­ment to using cut­ting-edge aer­i­al solu­tions to save lives,” explains the release. 

Since 2017, AIRT teams have advanced the use of Unmanned Air­craft Sys­tems (UAS) for emer­gency and dis­as­ter response across a wide range of com­plex inci­dents. It serves as the offi­cial home of the DRONERESPONDERS pro­gram, with over 10,000 mem­bers advanc­ing pub­lic safe­ty drone oper­a­tions in more than 85 coun­tries.

This alliance fos­ters the GoAERO Prize’s mis­sion to cre­ate inno­va­tions in emer­gency response with AIRT’s exper­tise and DRONERESPONDERS’ focus on pub­lic safe­ty, for advance­ments in aer­i­al capa­bil­i­ties of emer­gency oper­a­tions con­cern­ing all types of dis­as­ters and inci­dents.

Gwen Lighter (Cred­it: VFS)

Gwen Lighter, CEO of GoAERO, com­ment­ed, “Part­ner­ing with AIRT enables us to push the bound­aries of inno­va­tion in aer­i­al emer­gency response tech­nol­o­gy, ensur­ing these advance­ments direct­ly ben­e­fit those on the front lines of emer­gency and dis­as­ter response.” 

Christo­pher Todd, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of AIRT, added, “The group of part­ners ded­i­cat­ed to this effort include the finest avi­a­tion, tech­nol­o­gy, and pub­lic safe­ty organ­i­sa­tions span­ning  gov­ern­ment, indus­try, and the non-prof­it sec­tors.”

Back­ground

In 2024, GoAERO launched the GoAERO Prize, a glob­al com­pe­ti­tion com­mit­ted to inspir­ing the cre­ation of Emer­gency Response Fly­ers. There are more than USD2 mil­lion in prizes. 

Teams involved with the GoAERO Prize will com­pete over a three-year peri­od and ben­e­fit from expert men­tor­ship, glob­al expo­sure, access to soft­ware, prod­ucts and ser­vices, as well as mon­e­tary prizes. To reg­is­ter a team or learn more about the Prize, go to:- 

GoAEROprize.com

You can form a GoAERO team at:-

www.heroX.com/goaero 

AIRT is based in Mia­mi, Flori­da, and is a lead­ing 501©3 non-prof­it organ­i­sa­tion sup­port­ing the use of ‘Drones For Good’.  

The group offers a wide range of edu­ca­tion­al pro­grams, train­ing events and mis­sion-crit­i­cal sup­port to advance pub­lic safe­ty and emer­gency UAS oper­a­tions. AIRT is the offi­cial home of the DRONERESPONDERS pro­gram, with more than 10,000 mem­bers serv­ing over 85 coun­tries.

 For more infor­ma­tion

http://airt.ngo 

http://droneresponders.org

(Top image: GoAERO)

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