Coldchain Technology Services (CTS), already a provider of industry-leading temperature-controlled shipping services, is expanding into emergent technology with medical response drone delivery systems. Since its founding in 2009 and throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, CTS has been a key distributor of vaccines and therapeutics for government agencies as well as the private sector, who rely on CTS for secure, monitored storage of medicines and rapid responses to delivery requests. CTS is now augmenting its logistics resources with innovative delivery drones that will carry critical medical supplies in disaster zones. Natural disasters, accidents, and human conflicts pose serious challenges to response teams all around the globe, as is known all too well by Coldchain’s Executive Director, Wayne Williams, a service-disabled veteran who is committed to finding solutions to these humanitarian crises. “After the conflict began in Ukraine we donated a delivery drone and went there to show them how to use it,” Williams explains. “The response teams we met expressed the need for alternative ways of getting medical supplies in emergencies and appreciated the potential of our drone platform.” At the heart of CTS’ services are insulated refrigerated shippers designed to maintain the required temperature of medical products to ensure they are viable when they arrive at their destination. The shippers are fitted with GPS and temperature data loggers that are monitored in real time by expert staff. The shippers are then returned to CTS for sanitization and reuse, a key part of its sustainability program. Williams realized that “by combining medical shippers with the flexibility of drone movements, we can send emergency responders life-saving supplies safely with pinpoint accuracy over inaccessible terrain, roads blocked by debris, highway collisions—anywhere they are needed.” Williams and his team are optimistic about making that happen.