Operational AI · Search & Rescue
An interactive investigation — you operate it, you don't read it

Operational AI in
Search & Rescue

Two searches — the same drones and crew, opposite conditions. One loses the network; the other spans three agencies. You'll run both, deciding as you go what the machines are allowed to do. Watch what has to change between them. And watch what won't.

Operational AI · Missing Hiker — woven slice (authored proof)
narrative

You are running the search from the command truck. A hiker is overdue, the light is going, and the temperature is dropping toward the range where an injured person stops being able to keep warm.

A wildfire took the valley's cell tower this afternoon, so you are on your own out here — a few drones, one truck, and no signal to anyone who could help. Whatever finds this person tonight has to run on what's parked at the trailhead.

Human command
authority
Core
The central cloud/datacenter
Regional operational edge
Persistent regional layer outside the incident but closer than the core; federates across mobile nodes, enforces residency/attestation, preserves provenance
Mobile node
The forward operating unit at the incident — a rugged compute node with the operators
Drone / aircraft
The sensing platform in the air
disconnected · urgent · local