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Lockheed Martin’s Indago UAS to Search For Lost Alzheimer’s Patients

Lockheed Martin’s Indago UAS to Search For Lost Alzheimer’s Patients
This "enhanced" image shows Indago flying with an antenna that can find lost people. (Photo courtesy of Lockheed Martin)

Lockheed Martin [LMT] is equipping its Indago small unmanned aircraft system (UAS) to help first-responders search for special-needs people who have wandered from home.A lightweight antenna developed by Loen Engineering of British Columbia, Canada, is being integrated onto the five-pound, quad-rotor UAS to pick up signals from a radio-transmitter wristband worn by a lost person, Lockheed Martin announced April 27. Flight testing will occur over the next two months, and deliveries to customers are projected to begin by the fourth…

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