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DOCUMENT / TECH-001 REV / 05.2026 STATUS / UNCLASSIFIED

Intelligence-first
wildfire response.

Three intersecting AI systems engineered to remove operator latency, multiply situational awareness, and integrate directly with the agency infrastructure already in the field.

01 / PRINCIPLE

Operator latency is the largest controllable variable.

Every second between detection and response decides the perimeter. Our systems are designed to compress that interval — not replace the operator, but remove the friction around them.

02 / PRINCIPLE

Integration over replacement.

CAL FIRE, USFS, and county agencies have decades of investment in existing infrastructure. The platform is built to read into and write back out of those systems — not require them to migrate.

03 / PRINCIPLE

The fleet should think faster than the fire.

Predictive modeling, swarm coordination, and autonomous re-tasking are not premium features — they are the baseline for credible BVLOS operations at scale.

PILLAR / 01
01
THREAT
ASSESSMENT

The fleet recognizes what it's looking at.

Severity classification, propagation modeling, and anomaly detection working in concert — turning raw thermal and visual data into the kind of situational picture an experienced incident commander would assemble in their head, except in real time and across the entire AOR.

LIVE
  • Thermal + Fire Radiative Power ingestion (NASA FIRMS)
  • Severity tier classification (LOW → CRITICAL)
  • Canadian fire-weather index scoring
  • Multi-incident dashboard fusion
IN DEVELOPMENT
  • Wind-weighted spread modeling (directional ellipse)
  • Asset-proximity exposure scoring
  • Operational-priority ranking
  • Auto-escalation to operator alerts
ROADMAP
  • Onboard visual anomaly detection
  • Multi-spectral payload correlation
  • Pre-ignition signature detection
  • Cross-fleet shared intelligence layer
PILLAR / 02
02
ROUTE
OPTIMIZATION

The fleet decides how to get there.

Autonomous waypoint generation that accounts for active threats, terrain, no-fly corridors, and fleet-wide energy budgets. The operator approves the mission shape; the system handles the geometry — and re-handles it the moment conditions move.

LIVE
  • AI route optimizer in GCA
  • Real-time path recalculation on threat update
  • Multi-mission orchestration (Survey / Patrol / Response)
  • Live telemetry-driven waypoint adjustment
IN DEVELOPMENT
  • Battery-aware mission planning
  • Auto-RTB on telemetry threshold breach
  • Wind-corrected flight envelope
  • Dynamic no-fly zone enforcement
ROADMAP
  • Coordinated multi-drone swarm dispatch
  • Payload-weight-aware path selection
  • Sensor coverage gap optimization
  • Manned-aviation deconfliction layer
PILLAR / 03
03
LIVE FIRE
DATA INTEGRATION

The fleet is always reading the room.

Direct ingestion from the same data feeds federal and state agencies already trust — not aggregated, not delayed, not cached through a vendor middle layer. When CAL FIRE updates an incident, the platform updates within the same sync cycle.

LIVE
  • NASA FIRMS API (MODIS / VIIRS thermal)
  • CAL FIRE active incident feed
  • Live Sync with sub-minute refresh
  • Graceful degradation on agency outages
IN DEVELOPMENT
  • USFS InciWeb national integration
  • NIFC situation-report feed
  • Local CAD / 911 dispatch hooks
  • Weather model overlay (NOAA HRRR)
ROADMAP
  • Historical incident database for ML training
  • Civilian crowdsourced report ingestion
  • Cross-jurisdiction incident reconciliation
  • Open API for partner agency systems
SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE

Three pillars, one data path.

External feeds enter the intelligence layer, where threat assessment and route optimization run in parallel before surfacing to the operator and out to the airframe. Each stage is independently observable; no stage is a black box.

◇ STAGE 01

External Feeds

FIRMS · CAL FIRE · USFS · NOAA

◆ STAGE 02

Intelligence Layer

CLASSIFY · PREDICT · ROUTE

◇ STAGE 03

Operator + Airframe

GCA · TELEMETRY · AUTONOMY

DEVELOPMENT TRAJECTORY

Where we are. Where it's going.

The platform is operational today. Each subsequent milestone unlocks deeper agency integration and reduces the cognitive load on incident command.

Q2 2026 / DEPLOYED

GCA v1.0 — Live Operations

Full-fleet command, live data integration, AI route optimizer, multi-mission orchestration.

Q3 2026 / IN PROGRESS

Predictive Threat Layer

Wind-weighted directional spread modeling. Asset-proximity exposure scoring and operational-priority ranking.

Q4 2026 / PLANNED

Agency Federation

USFS InciWeb, NIFC, and local CAD integration. Two-way sync with established incident management systems.

2027 / ROADMAP

Swarm Autonomy

Coordinated multi-drone dispatch, sensor coverage gap optimization, manned-aviation deconfliction.

2027+ / VISION

Cross-Fleet Intelligence

Shared situational picture across deployed fleets. Pre-ignition signature detection. Open partner API.

PROVISIONAL — FILED
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

The moat is the integration.

Off-the-shelf drones exist. Off-the-shelf AI exists. The defensibility is in the orchestration — and that's where the patents are filed.

PROVISIONAL / 01

Drone Airframe

Mission-specific design for retardant deployment

PROVISIONAL / 02

Payload System

Flow-controlled retardant delivery mechanism

PROVISIONAL / 03

Mission Orchestration

AI-coordinated multi-asset dispatch process

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