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- We're here at Camp Shelby
in Mississippi to evaluate

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drones for potential uses

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for public safety agencies.

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- This particular assessment
is centered around search and

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rescue missions.

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This facility has a wide area
we can do buildings searches

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and hide targets in the
windows and there's even a car

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that we can do a simulation with.

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- This is the FRROST
operation, First Responders

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Robotic Operation System Test.

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The idea is to evaluate drones
or UASes to see which would

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be most appropriate for
fire reconnaissance police.

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We're here to collect the
data from the first responders

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as they evaluate.

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- First responder organizations
are resource and budget

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tight which means they don't
have a lot of resources

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and we conduct these types
of assessments to help them

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better understand the
technology in an unbiased way.

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- The unmanned aerial vehicles,

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we need them for small compact,
quick deployable operations.

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We wanna to make sure we get
on the ground, we're quick on

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the ground, we get them up in
the air, we're getting actual

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intel whether it be for
hostage barricade situation,

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search and rescue or just kind
of get an overwatch situation

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of a large event.

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- We're a dry state in California,

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'cause we have a big wild land fire issue.

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The number one thing that
we're looking for here is the

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ability to give us hot zones
and being able to provide a map

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to our troops or our support on the ground

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and get the fire extinguished faster.

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- What we have are some
buckets and some wooden stands

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that allow anybody to align
their small unmanned aerial

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systems and assess how
well it's performing.

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We have visual acuity targets
that they can line up on

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and assess how well that platform's camera

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and thermal cameras perform.

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- So the feedback that we're
providing we're using a

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scale, it's about 30 different
criteria that we're grading

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the unmanned aerial system
on, and it all depends on

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whatever your mission is.

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- Being here this week is a really helpful

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benefit because I don't know
that there's anywhere else you

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can go and get unbiased information.

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You can get a chance to really
fly different manufacturers

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and talk to your peers.

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- Having the vendors come out showing

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the capabilities of the drones
and us evaluating is giving

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those departments the
chance to be able to use

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this technology and to have
better situational awareness

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and safer operations.

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