Skyfire provides turnkey DFR outsourcing to public safety agencies

Drone public safety and emergency program consultancy Skyfire is taking a major step beyond its habitual advisory activities to police and fire departments by offering its own drone first responder (DFR) services as an outsourced solution to assembling in-house UAV units.

Atlanta-based Skyfire is launching its DFR offer to public agencies as a turnkey option to police, fire, and other emergency response forces that determine integrating third-party drones and expert pilots is preferrable to creating their own specialized divisions.

Though outsourced DFR units can be situated within the facilities of client public agencies, the more cost-effective choice of Skyfire first responder services will be operational linkage to the company’s remote drone platforms. That would involve the consultancy’s specialized first responder pilots and data analysts to be hardwired into 911 operations so craft can be deployed immediately in emergency…