# SARCOM — SARCOM Incident Command

> SARCOM Incident Command (iPhone/iPad app by Black Canopy Solutions, LLC.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sarcom/id6794853045 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Black Canopy Solutions, LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/6778598901)
- Category: Business, Navigation
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 17+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 10 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-08-06
- Data updated: 2026-08-17
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sarcom/id6794853045/reviews.md

## What is SARCOM?

SARCOM is incident command, team management, and mission planning for Search & Rescue — in one app. Built for organized SAR teams, it runs the whole search: from the first callout, through deployment and coordination, to the final debrief.

WHERE ARE MY RESPONDERS, AND WHAT'S BEEN SEARCHED?
That's the question SARCOM answers. Responders check in and deploy from their phone. Their location and track stream to Incident Command in real time — so command can see who is where, keep them safe, and know which ground has been covered and which hasn't. Tracking keeps running with the screen off while a responder is deployed, and stops the moment they end it.

FOR INCIDENT COMMAND
- Live map of deployed responders and their search tracks
- CalTopo integration — set the Initial Planning Point (IPP) and Last Known Point (LKP) and push them to your map
- ICS forms built in: 201, 202, 203, 204, 211, and a running 214 activity log
- Export any ICS form to PDF for your incident file
- AI-assisted drafting to turn field notes into clean, structured form entries
- Approve responders into the incident and delegate command roles
- Weather alerts for the incident area

FOR THE TEAM
- Roster, member profiles, and command qualifications
- Credential and training tracking with expiration reminders — know who's current before you deploy them
- Availability and on-call scheduling
- Documents, resources, and a team address book
- Reports and analytics on participation and readiness

FOR RESPONDERS
- One-tap check-in and deploy
- Capture field observations and photos from the search
- Google and Apple sign-in

WHO IT'S FOR
SARCOM is built for organized Search & Rescue teams and their members — not a consumer tracking app. An account is required. Individuals can join free; team features are available to SAR teams.

Knowing where your people are and what they've searched isn't a nice-to-have in the field. It's the difference between a coordinated search and a guess. SARCOM puts it in one place.
A Black Canopy Solutions product.


## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 1.0.13 — 2026-08-15

The incident workspace has been rebuilt around how a callout actually runs.
Command screens are now grouped into Command, Operations and Planning, so what
you need is where you'd go looking for it.

ASSIGNMENTS (ICS 204)
Build assignments in a draft queue, assign them to teams, and hand each team its
own assignment page. The operational period now prints on the PDF.

OPERATIONAL PERIODS
Set an OP length and the clock starts on your first page-out. Each period gets
its own dated CalTopo folder — rolling to the next period drops the last one's
work off the live map and carries your search segments forward.

SUBJECTS AND SEARCH URGENCY
Incidents now carry multiple subjects, each with an expanded lost-person
questionnaire. The relative search urgency rating scores across all seven
categories as you fill it in, with weather factored in automatically. Cell-ping
locations drop as map markers per subject.

PAGING AND MUTUAL AID
Page any team's dispatch by SMS and email, with an editable preview before it
fires and a priority on the page. Teams running Active911 can have pages
delivered into their existing alert flow. Mutual-aid requests now notify the
requested team's dispatch directly.

FIELD MESSAGING FROM OUTSIDE CELL COVERAGE
Register a Garmin inReach, SPOT, Zoleo or satellite phone, and messages you send
from the field land in the op log — attributed to you and routed to the incident
you're checked into.

COMMS
Your team keeps a standing channel list that pre-fills the incident's ICS 205
comms plan, so nobody is retyping a frequency at 0200.

ON THE INCIDENT
• Open incident chat for everyone on the callout — ETAs, parking, trailhead
  chatter — kept separate from the op log so the record stays clean
• Responder status at a glance: who's responding, staging, in the field
• Critical alerts now banner across every command screen
• Logistics board, feeding the ICS 215
• Briefing and SitRep forms
• Autofill every ICS form from the incident in one action
• Closing an incident archives the ICS packet PDF into your team's documents

K9
HRD training logs capture per-hide detail and export to PDF. Deployment PDFs now
include the assigned-area map.

ALSO
Events display and email in your team's timezone. Avatars and cover photos can be
cropped and repositioned on upload.

FIXED
• PDF and CSV exports now save properly on iPhone. ICS packets, individual forms,
  K9 records, AI drafts and reports open in the share sheet, so you can save them
  to Files, mail them, or AirDrop them to an agency rep.
• Links to your own incidents and events stay in the app instead of kicking you
  out to Safari
• Less background network use during an active tracking session, for battery life
  in the field

### 1.0.12 — 2026-08-08

SARCOM is your search-and-rescue command platform:

• Run incidents with a live CalTopo map and terrain-aware Lost-Person-Behavior modeling
• Export all seven FEMA ICS forms filled from live incident data
• Track team members, certifications, and training — scan a cert card and it fills itself in
• Manage K9 teams, deployments, and field evidence with chain-of-custody photo logging

This release adds terrain-aware Lost-Person-Behavior modeling, one-tap FEMA ICS form export, K9 team management, chain-of-custody evidence logging, and cert-card scanning, plus stability and reliability fixes.

### 1.0 — 2026-08-07

No release notes.

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