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Civil Protection

At Ayr Orbis, we provide our clients with comprehensive civil protection solutions that ensure resilience, safety, and rapid response in the most challenging environments. From coordinating air, sea, and land transport to providing mission-critical logistics, medical evacuation, and disaster recovery support, our integrated approach empowers governments, organisations, and communities to act decisively in times of crisis. Leveraging decades of expertise, advanced technologies, and global networks, we offer seamless mission coordination that strengthens emergency frameworks and safeguards human lives.

Our services extend far beyond immediate response, encompassing long-term preparedness, capacity building, and infrastructure development. Whether deploying firefighting fleets, establishing drone hubs, delivering urgent medical aid, or providing cybersecurity and AI-informed planning, we tailor every solution to meet complex operational demands. By combining innovation with proven field experience, we enable sustainable resilience, effective crisis management, and enduring protection for people, assets, and environments worldwide.

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Mission Coordination and Support

Integrated Operations: Seamless coordination of helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft, and UAVs within existing emergency and defence frameworks for rapid response.
Logistical Services:
- Air Transport:
  - Long and short-term Aircraft, Crew, Maintenance & Insurance (ACMI) leases for both fixed-wing and rotary-wing.
  - Ad-hoc passenger charter flights (executive, corporate, VIP, and VVIP).
  - Ad-hoc cargo flights.
  - Aircraft management (both fixed-wing and rotary-wing).
  - Maintenance and CAMO support (Continuing Airworthiness Management Organisation).
  - Aircraft crewing.
  - Risk assessment.
  - Flight planning, flight following, handling, and fuel supply.
  - Field logistics and management.
  - Short- and long-term storage/parking.
- Sea Transport:
  - Freight forwarding.
  - Cargo transport.
- Land Transport:
  - Road, rail and passenger transport.
  - Freight forwarding.
  - VIP/VVIP passenger transport.
  - Cargo transport.
- Mission Support & Programme Management:
  - End-to-end project management from planning to post-mission analysis, ensuring precise and well-coordinated responses.
  - Vulnerability, risk, and needs-based analysis.
  - Stabilisation and recovery planning.
  - Resource mobilisation and emergency team deployment.
  - Strategic, multi-actor coordination, planning, and administration.
  - Budgeting, resource planning, and project alignment.
  - Communications support.
  - Construction (including roads, airstrips, and camp infrastructure).
  - Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) solutions.
  - Close protection and security.
- Healthcare & Pandemic Resilience:
  - Permanent and temporary medical facilities.
  - Vaccine storage, distribution, and inoculation oversight.
  - PPE supply and testing kit distribution.
  - Clinical treatment centres and trained medical personnel.
  - Pandemic eradication and resilience support.
- Resilient Performance: Operational continuity under communication or power disruptions through contingency protocols.
- Cybersecurity & Tracking: Advanced safeguards for mission-critical systems and data integrity.
- AI-Informed Planning: Optimised resource allocation, high-risk target prioritisation, and false-positive filtering for enhanced decision-making.
- Capacity Building:
  - Local job creation and apprenticeship programmes.
  - E-learning platforms.
  - Disaster risk reduction strategies.
  - Business continuity management and organisational resilience training.
  - Provision of training equipment.
  - General health and safety training.
  - Pandemic resilience and public health training.

Unmanned Systems Infrastructure and Hub Construction

Landing & Servicing Zones: Establishment of drone operation and maintenance hubs.
Drone Hub Development: Facilities equipped with battery charging, repair stations, and real-time monitoring.
Mobile Command Centres: Deployable units for UAV operations in logistically challenging or disaster-stricken areas.
AI & ML Integration: Advanced automation for enhanced disaster response efficiency.
Centralised Control: GIS-based management through IRIZI Scale for unified operational oversight.

Firefighting

Conventional Response:
- Multi-season rotary or fixed-wing vehicle deployment across mainland and island regions, ensuring wide-area coverage during peak wildfire periods.
- External water delivery systems such as Bambi Buckets or internal ones such as belly tanks for effective fire suppression and rapid response.
- Scalable fleet size to address increasingly unprecedented wildfire risks and operational demands.
- Proven, in-house full-service packages including Aircraft, Crew, Maintenance, and Insurance (ACMI) to support national wildfire suppression efforts.
- More than two decades of specialised experience in providing optimal solutions for aerial firefighting, prioritising hot and high performance and cost-effectiveness.
Hybrid Response: Deployment of integrated UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) and UGVs (unmanned ground vehicles) operating alongside conventional rotary and fixed-wing aircraft.
Night Operations: NVG-equipped rotary-wing aircraft for nighttime fire response as well as Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) with route planning, live-stream visual identification, thermal imaging, backup communication channels, Return-to-Home (RTH) capability, and flexible launch points.
Fire Prediction & Prevention:
- Continuous monitoring of meteorological and environmental indicators.
- Machine learning models for hazard forecasting.
- Geo-analysis of historical fire records to generate risk maps and identify vulnerable areas.
- Strategic planning for vegetation clearance and creation of firebreaks.
Monitoring Centres: Deployment of both mobile and fixed command centres with high-speed remote connectivity and advanced management software.
Post-Mission Analysis: High-resolution imaging, geo-referenced orthophoto mapping, 3D modelling, damage assessment, vegetation loss measurement, and causal investigations.
Extreme Conditions Operations: Robust coordination and emergency measures for high-temperature and high-occlusion regions.

Search and Rescue (SAR)

Common Coordination and Rapid Response Centre: Establishment of a centralised rapid-response centre to handle emergency requests and integrate UAVs with manned aircraft for enhanced safety and efficiency.
Optimised Deployment: Division of operational areas into UAV responsibility zones to ensure strong signal transmission and adaptive coverage.
Advanced Search Capabilities: Long-endurance UAVs equipped for detecting individuals, movement, and heat signatures in remote or difficult terrains such as mountains, forests or rugged landscapes.
Flexible Asset Selection: Tailored choice of UAVs and manned aircraft for specific environments, including customisable payload configurations.

Casevac and Medevac

Airlift Capability: Helicopters equipped with Advanced Life Support (ALS) modules, infrared cameras, and searchlights for rapid evacuation of casualties and responders from disaster zones.
Unmanned Support: Integration of Uncrewed Systems (UxS) for conducting Casevac/Medevac. Provision of multi-functional UGVs which can be equipped with an evacuation module enabling remote casualty extraction in high-risk or inaccessible environments where traditional manned methods are ineffective or pose excessive danger to emergency response personnel.
Scalable Response: Modular configurations for helicopters and UGVs to accommodate multiple stretchers, oxygen systems, and critical care modules for mass-casualty scenarios.

Medical and Emergency Logistics

Critical Aid Delivery: Conventional or UAV-enabled transport of essential medical supplies, including Trauma Kits, Troponin Tests, AEDs, Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitors, Holter Devices, PPE, Vaccines, Required Medications, Medical Samples, Blood Pressure Cuffs, Pulse Oximeters, Thermometers and other medical supplies, to remote or disaster-affected regions.
Time-Sensitive Transport: Delivery of organs, blood, and medical samples for transplantation and transfusion under strict timelines.
Telemedical Support: UAV platforms enabling two-way video for remote diagnosis, evaluation and intervention.
Continuous Operations: 24/7 availability with advanced night-vision for ISR data collection, cargo delivery, contamination prevention and SAR support.
Unmanned Aid During Crises: Autonomous delivery during pandemics, conflicts, and extreme weather events, ensuring critical aid reaches isolated areas.
Environmental Adaptability: Reliable performance in adverse weather conditions and dynamic disaster scenarios through strategic monitoring and route planning.

Inspection, Troubleshooting and Confirmation

CNS Services: Communication, Navigation, and Surveillance solutions for operational reliability.
Unmanned Inspections: Aerial and ground-based assessments of vital infrastructure such as pipelines, power plants, data centres, and emergency facilities.
Critical Infrastructure Lifecycle Coverage:
- Design & construction stage (terrain mapping).
- Commissioning.
- Operational phase.
- De-commissioning.
- Confirmation & Response: Manned interventions following unmanned assessments for high-risk environments.

Training, Testing and R&D

Academic & Industry Collaboration: Partnering to develop comprehensive UAV operation and maintenance programs.
Integrated Training: Merging UAS and conventional air attack personnel training to improve teamwork and operational understanding.
Skill Proficiency: Ensuring personnel are trained on diverse drone models and latest tech for optimal asset selection.
Hands-On Instruction: Delivering real-time, on-site training at deployment locations.
Competency Validation: Providing end-to-end support for technical exams to aid with standardising operator quality.
AI Training: Implementing education on using AI technologies in UAVs for disaster risk management.
Research and Development (R&D) Initiatives: Developing our own new technologies for multi-functional uses such as comprehensive and integrated demining solutions. We engage in design feasibility studies, modularity evaluation, and definition of key technical requirements. Our R&D programmes prioritise scalability, environmental resilience, ease of repair, and cost-effective replication.

Consultancy

Platform Selection: Advisory for UAV and manned aircraft acquisition and integration into disaster response strategies.
Sustainable Operations: Environmentally conscious and cost-efficient solutions tailored to emergency contexts.
Operational Planning: UAV-enabled strategies to enhance safety in complex or occluded zones alongside disaster risk assessment, risk reduction and resilience, disaster preparedness and response, emergency planning and crisis management
Post-Mission Support: Advanced mapping and analysis for recovery, restoration, and investigative purposes.