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Rain, a leader in aerial wildfire containment technology, is helping fire agencies more rapidly suppress wildfires during the earliest stages of ignition, before they grow out of control. Rain adapts autonomous aircraft with wildfire intelligence to rapidly perceive, understand, and suppress wildfires, which enables numerous aircraft to be prepositioned in remote locations resulting in accelerated response time. Developed in tandem with fire professionals, Rain is a privately held company headquartered in Alameda, California. Visit www.rain.aero for more information.

Caption: Rain and Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, have jointly demonstrated autonomous fire suppression operations using Sikorsky’s optionally piloted Black Hawk aircraft and Rain’s wildfire mission autonomy system. In May, the platform was used to validate a wind deviation model, built to ensure water is dropped on target by adjusting where the aircraft flies to account for wind.

Caption: Sikorsky’s Optionally Piloted BLACK HAWK® helicopter equipped with MATRIX™ and Rain’s wildfire mission autonomy systems undergoes ground checks as the teams prepared for fire localization and targeting demonstrations at Sikorsky HQ in Stratford, Connecticut. 

Rain & Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, are collaborating to advance new capabilities for aerial wildland firefighting, rapidly responding to early-stage wildfires by launching uncrewed helicopters to drop water on wildfires within minutes of detection.

Caption: Rain engineers integrate a high resolution thermal camera with Rain software in advance of autonomous fire suppression demonstrations at Sikorsky HQ in Stratford, CT. Rain, a leader in autonomous aerial wildfire containment technology, launched the aircraft, guided it to the fire, and targeted the fire using its wildfire mission autonomy stack.

Caption: Sikorsky’s Optionally Piloted BLACK HAWK® helicopter with Rain’s wildfire mission autonomy systems hovers near a test fire during fire localization and targeting demonstrations at Sikorsky HQ in Stratford, Connecticut. 

Rain, a leader in aerial wildfire containment technology, and Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, are collaborating to explore how Sikorsky’s MATRIX™ autonomy suite operating with Rain’s Wildfire Mission Autonomy System can launch uncrewed helicopters to drop water on wildfires within minutes of detection, providing new tools for firefighters in the face of fires that are increasing in frequency and severity.

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Caption: Rain has integrated with Alchera X's FireScout AI smoke detection cameras, seen above at the Sikorsky flight field, which provided the fire coordinates for Rain software to dispatch an autonomous Black Hawk helicopter equipped with Sikorsky’s Matrix™ flight autonomy system and Rain’s wildfire mission autonomy stack. More than 1,100 early fire detection cameras are installed in the state of California, with more across the American West.

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