AVIATION SPECIALTIES UNLIMITED

Aviation Specialties Unlimited (ASU) from Boise, Idaho, is a pioneer of night vision goggles (NVG) for first responders and law enforcement agencies. ASU demonstrated the Element 3 (E3) lightweight NVG. At 30 per cent lighter than the current AN/AVS-9 at 390g, it has P-45 white phosphor high-performance image intensification technology; has intuitive diopter and objective adjustments improving look-around viewing; and is backward compatible with legacy aviator’s night vision imaging system mounts and battery packs. After years of development and feedback from the aviation community, ASU announced that the first 300 adopters will get a two-year warranty and free inspections.

CambCol

CambCol has developed Clotta, an emergency trauma hemostatic dressing that clots blood rather than stops bleeding. Derived from poultry byproducts, Clotta uses avian collagen – which is essentially identical to human collagen, with low allergenicity, no risk of residual prion proteins for infectious diseases, and is ‘religion neutral’ – to stimulate granulation within a wound by establishing a matrix (extracellular scaffold) that attracts and helps to activate fibroblasts and keratinocytes to initiate cell repair and healing. Its natural hemostatic properties come from the action on platelet activation, helping to control excessive bleeding or hemorrhage, making it suited as a dressing for emergency trauma.

Celox Medical

Celox Medical produces a range of products and training kits that are designed to stop bleeding and seal wounds. Celox granules are prepared from chitosan – derived from chitin found in the shells of crustaceans – and they swell, gel and bind together on contact with blood, causing a plug on the surface without generating heat and continuing to work even if the patient is on blood thinners or if they are hypothermic. The products are available in a range of dressings, gauzes and granule applicators so that they can be used in different ways determined by the situation that the emergency personnel encounter.

Delta Development Team

Delta Development Team designs and manufactures ruggedized cooling and heating systems for extreme environments, which have military, first responder, and medical applications. Their Autonomous Portable Refrigeration Unit (APRU) is designed to keep blood products, vaccines, virus samples and medication at a constant cool temperature for days (up to 95 hours) on one charge of the battery. With the operations where whole blood may be needed, the APRU is rugged, weather resistant and durable, making it suited for missions in remote or rural environments far from a hospital.

Frequentis

Frequentis, headquartered in Vienna, is a supplier of communication and information systems for control centers such as air traffic management (civil and military air traffic control) and public safety (police, fire brigade, ambulance services and coastguards). Frequentis is helping countries to implement systems that integrate the shared airspace between uncrewed aerial vehicles and crewed aircraft. The management of the shared airspace is a growing domain where increased traffic, particularly in urban areas that are already seeing heavy traffic, needs careful monitoring, control and systems in place early to ensure that public safety is maintained.

HENSOLDT

HENSOLDT, a sensor solutions company from Germany, was showcasing its products, including its optronics platforms and solutions for the air. Its ARGOS-II, an airborne electro-optical and infrared (EO/IR) system, is designed for military, border, maritime patrol and law enforcement missions and has advanced image processing functions, including picture-in-picture display, edge enhancement, haze penetration, pseudo-colors and day/thermal image fusion for a variety of operational conditions. The ARGOS-II also comes with an integral auto-tracker function that provides tracking of moving or static targets in the line of sight, making it appropriate for intelligence, surveillance, targeting and reconnaissance missions.

L3Harris

L3Harris is a technology supplier to the defense industry with imaging and simulation solutions in the aviation sector. Its WESCAM MX-Series of multi-sensor, multi-spectral, EO/IR surveillance and targeting systems are mounted on 230 different types of platforms, including fixed-wing, rotor-wing, uncrewed aerial vehicles and aerostat platforms. The turrets come with a range of sizes depending on your weight and distance requirements – from the smaller WESCAM MX-8 up to the WESCAM MX-25 for larger operations – all with haze penetration, geolocation and continuous zoom functions. The high-sensitivity multi-spectral sensors have capabilities for day, low-light and nighttime missions.

Noctis Technologies

Based in South Carolina and Georgia, Noctis Technologies is expert in the design, manufacture and maintenance of night vision devices. As well as producing a range of hand-held, headstrap-mounted and helmet-mounted night vision goggles and devices, Noctis specifically produces the AVS-6/9 Style, an aviator’s night vision imaging system (ANVIS) that is designed to be mounted to a standard aviation flight helmet, with a low weight and a low battery profile. The AVS-6/9 Style, like Noctis’ other products, is manufactured, assembled and tested in accordance with US military specifications.

Peli BioThermal

Peli BioThermal displayed a variety of products including its award-winning Golden Hour set of temperature-controlled packaging. Recognized by the US Army, Golden Hour is a technology developed to safely transport blood to wounded soldiers, and Peli BioThermal has modified the solution to come in a few different variants. These include the Golden Hour One for a single unit of blood that can maintain its temperature for up to 18 hours under extreme conditions or over 36 hours in an optimal environment; Golden Hour Medic, for the combat medic to carry two units for up to three days, or 24 hours under extreme conditions; and Golden Hour Mobile, which can hold four units of whole blood for over 72 hours.

Philips

Philips provides advanced life support and remote monitoring solutions. It emphasizes the flexibility of its products, coupled with lightweight portability and ruggedness, which enhance the versatility of its monitors and defibrillators. The special missions section is catered for with specifically designed remote monitoring solutions of Philips’ Tempus monitors. Offering ease of use and secure encryption of transmitted data, Tempus and the lntelliSpace Corsium platform support two-way communication between healthcare professionals, allowing real-time collaboration between the hospital and the scene of the emergency.

Prometheus Medical

Prometheus Medical is a provider of medical training and simulation courses and equipment. With a variety of courses designed for emergency and pre-hospital care, it caters to professionals who undertake pre-hospital healthcare as part of their daily work, but also those who may only come across these situations on occasion – such as police, military, or first aiders at work. Of particular interest is its helicopter emergency medical services training course, which lasts for five days and is designed for specialist training of doctors, paramedics and flight nurses who operate out of helicopters.

Promoteq

Promoteq supplies modular packs for the support of military operations, designed in reference to the latest treatment guidelines, such as Tactical Combat Casualty Care, Remote Damage Control Resuscitation, and Prolonged Field Care. As well as the basic individual first aid kit, Promoteq has a variety of modules that include anything up to medic, paramedic and doctor kits, configured to aid personnel providing advanced life support and intensive care unit-level treatment. As well as supplying the modular kits, Promoteq has simulators that enable the teaching and training of trauma care in the field of combat.

Red Cat

Red Cat provides products and services in the drone industry through its subsidiaries Teal Drones and Skypersonic. Its aim is to provide critical situational awareness and enhance the effectiveness and safety of military and security operations with its Teal 2 small uncrewed aerial system. With Blue UAS certification by the US Department of Defense, the Teal 2 is designed for short-range reconnaissance missions. Soldiers, police officers and firefighters can utilize the Teal 2’s forward-looking Hadron 640R EO/IR sensors, optimized for nighttime operations, to help in a range of roles.

Smith Myers

Smith Myers is the UK-based creator of the ARTEMIS cell phone detection, location and communication system for search and rescue applications. Its systems are all made to fit on any type of platform from ground-based to small uncrewed aerial systems and large crewed aircraft, all with the same core electronics. Traditional direction finding can be slow, inaccurate and require multiple antennas. Smith Myers designed its system to geolocate handsets quickly and accurately over extended ranges using two independent and proprietary geolocation techniques with only two small antennas – one to transmit and one to receive – making integration simple and economical compared with the older-style direction finding that used antenna arrays.

Survitec

Survitec is a designer and manufacturer of wearable survival equipment, fire solutions and survival craft technology. It has a close relationship with the search and rescue industry and produces liferafts, lifejackets and immersion suits, with a particular focus on crew, passengers and rescue swimmers in the sector. The products are designed for different roles, each with different considerations factored into the tailoring, fabric and design. Versatility and ease of donning and doffing the jackets and suits are taken into account with articulation and configurations of braces, zips and fasteners to allow for unhindered performance of tasks, and adjustable or modifiable features available depending on specific needs.

UMS SKELDAR

UMS SKELDAR, a joint venture between Saab and UMS AERO Group, has a current portfolio of two uncrewed helicopters both with open architecture to support numerous sensor combinations to allow for a variety of special missions roles. As well as strong military applications, UMS SKELDAR’s uncrewed aerial vehicles are also suited to public safety usage, boasting a six-hour flight time for the V-200 and payload agnostic integration. This allows commercial-off-the-shelf high-resolution EO/IR and light detection and ranging sensors to be installed to provide a choice of state-of-the-art technology to be added according to your particular needs.

VITEC

VITEC is an intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance (ISTAR) technology company that creates solutions for processing and encoding video data. Designed with low size, weight and power demands, its MGW series includes the MGW Pico+ TOUGH, which is able to be fitted into ultra-small airborne enclosures. The MGW Pico+ TOUGH provides a high video quality at a low bitrate, and the bitrate can be changed as required, as well as including an overlay capability. It is approximately the width of a credit card and weighs less than 400g, making it the smallest, most power-efficient MPEG-4 H.264 HD/SD video encoder available.

Weinmann

Manufacturer and distributer of portable medical equipment Weinmann designs its products for emergency use in search and rescue, civil safety, and military applications, or even in a hospital. Specialists in ventilation and defibrillation, Weinmann also makes oxygen systems, suction machines and emergency medical packs and cases. As part of their design, Weinmann’s ventilators show the emergency modes immediately on activation; they are portable, robust and rugged, and come with safety features to ensure the patient has the care required through monitoring and alarms. The MEDUCORE Standard² defibrillator is similar: a portable, light and rugged device that can be configured depending on your requirements.

ZOLL

ZOLL, an Asahi Kasei company, develops and markets medical devices for emergency care. It has a suite of products that include defibrillators (as well as automated external defibrillators and wearables), ventilators, and automated cardiopulmonary resuscitation. For instance, ZOLL uses its 25 years of manufacturing history with the military to produce the Propaq M. Designed for military and air medical use, Propaq M is a transport monitor with a defibrillator and pacer option as well as a hot-swappable battery with over 7.5 hours of monitoring and a telemedicine remote viewing capability