With the advent of UAS technology in the civilian field in the last decade, drones have become very prevalent within SAR activities at various levels.

While today drones are almost part of the basic package for every SAR unit responding to any event and are used in a variety of mission types, using them in a way that helps the SAR efforts and provides operational and tactical advantages has sometimes been a challenge, which raises some questions:

- Should UAS be used in every scenario and mission?
- Is there a methodology for using UAS in hasty teams when a mission spins up?
- What are the different packages we need to create and adapt for various mission types?
- How do we prepare assignments for UAS as part of mission management?
- How do we not overwhelm the mission with too much data?
- What can we do to produce only actionable data that generates new assignments?