UTG Course Info

The Unmanned Tactical Group’s Aerial Crash/Crime Scene Reconstruction course will prepare the participants to collect and produce accurate products for crash or crime scene investigations. During the course, the participants will learn what equipment is used to map a scene, how to collect the necessary data, how to process the collected data, how to make accurate products, and how to export the data for 3rd party software. The participants will also discuss courtroom procedures and testimony techniques.

Aerial Search and Rescue Operations is an advanced course designed for agencies that are tasked with searches for people. Drones provide a unique capability to quickly locate missing persons, assess dangerous terrain, and guide rescue teams to their destination. Drones can be used for various tasks in search and rescue operations. These include aerial surveillance to locate missing persons, reconnaissance of dangerous terrain, mapping hazardous areas, and providing real-time information to rescue teams. Coordination of airborne assets to ground units is the difference between a successful mission or failure. Communication is key to ensuring that a complete and thorough search is conducted. Coordination of ground-based responders and K9 teams which act as a force multiplier in all searches will be discussed This is an advanced class all students are expected to have completed the basic operation class (or equivalent)
Class is composed of 30 percent classroom 70 percent field work.

Unmanned Tactical Group’s Catastrophic Disaster Drone Response course will prepare your team to respond to major catastrophic disaster incidents such as hurricanes, tornadoes, structure collapses, and wildfire events. This course will discuss the challenges faced when deploying to a catastrophic disaster area. The participants will discuss how to prepare for the disaster events, learn how to integrate into the IMT structure, how to deploy for search and rescue operations, and how to collect data to support the recovery efforts of the disaster.

The Unmanned Tactical Group’s First Responder Operations course will take the participant from zero flight experience to being able to fly for most public safety responses confidently. The course starts with basic drone hardware and software orientation and builds to multi-aircraft major incident response scenarios. This course is designed for entry-level to advanced pilots and is real-world scenario-driven. During our course, the participants will have the opportunity to learn on their own equipment or you can use UTG’s drones.

The "Unmanned Tactical Groups HazMat Drone Operations Course" is meticulously designed to provide a high level of professionalism and expertise to first responders, HazMat technicians, and drone operators. This course empowers participants with the requisite skills and knowledge to seamlessly integrate Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) into Hazardous Materials incidents.
Throughout this comprehensive training, students will acquire in-depth expertise in applied tactical strategies, precise hazard identification techniques, and essential equipment requisites. Upon completion of the course, participants will emerge with a profound understanding of the multifaceted challenges encountered by HazMat drone operators, as well as a nuanced comprehension of the unique complexities within their field.

Local governments are increasingly using drones for a variety of purposes, including public safety, infrastructure inspection, and disaster response. Drones offer many benefits, such as improved efficiency and safety. However, residents often express privacy concerns about the use of drones by law enforcement, and critics have called for warrant requirements prior to police use of drones. Outside the law enforcement context, civic uses of drones face similar challenges to deployment, so long as government actors must operate under a traditional administrative warrant analysis. The use of drones by local governments is a complex issue with both potential benefits and drawbacks. It is important to balance these competing interests in order to develop policies that allow for the responsible use of drones while also protecting the privacy of residents. Unmanned Tactical Group’s Legal Concerns for UAS Operations course discusses these challenges and educates the participants on federal, state and local, and case law regulations that apply to both warrant and warrantless searches with a drone.

This course will prepare the participants to pass the FAA Part 107 Unmanned Aircraft General Test successfully. All the material taught in this course is tailored to public safety applications. This course will discuss every aspect of the test, provide practice exams, and the participants will be provided with a textbook for self-study. The FAA Part 107 exam is a multiple-choice exam with 60 questions. This course will practice answering questions in the same style as the actual exam.

Unmanned Tactical Group’s Public Safety Drone Team Supervisor course will prepare the participants to safeguard their agency drone program. This course will discuss the challenges teams will experience externally and internally, best practices the team should employ based on national standards, what equipment will best suit the agency’s goals, how to best maintain their equipment to ensure longevity, how to structure and internally develop the sUAS team, how to plan for major/catastrophic incidents, and case law that is applicable to sUAS operations.

Unmanned Tactical Group’s Tactical Operations course is designed for advanced pilots to support high-risk/SWAT deployments. This course will inform the participants how to select the most appropriate tactical drone for their incident, provide situational awareness with tactical command, how to effectively communicate aerial perspectives to ground personnel, and how to effectively fly for SWAT events.

This course focuses on the use of Unmanned Aerial Systems (Drones) and Fire Department Operations. Drones can be used in support for Firefighting operations to provide situational awareness for the proper management of small and large incidents. Uses include pre-incident planning of target hazards, development of proper fireground strategy and tactics, management of firefighting operations and resources, Fireground Safety, Accountability, Overhaul, and Fire investigations. In addition, secondary tasks such as Technical Rescue Operations: Rope Rescue, Water Rescue, Confined Space Operations, Structural Collapse, Wildfire, Search and Rescue (SAR), and Haz-Mat Operations will also be discussed and explored. Fire Departments have been slow to adopt this technology but now are embracing it as a way to protect their personnel and the public they serve.