Los Angeles, CA (August 28, 2023) – The RTC, America’s leading UAS innovator and California’s largest certified UAS trainer, is pleased to announce a partnership with the Florida’s Forensic Institute for Research, Security and Tactics (F1RST) in Land O’ Lakes, Florida to create the premier governmental training venue in the United States.

“Florida is just the right place to be, and the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office exemplifies vision and innovation in public safety.  The F1RST Facility will host ethical, outcome-based, quality training for Floridians and the region. I could not be more pleased to be there.” Kris Allshouse, Executive Director, The RTC.

Florida’s Forensic Institute for Research, Security, and Tactics (FIRST) represents such a collaboration – a partnership between academia and practitioners to develop a state-of-the-art research enterprise that will inform, innovate, and offer cutting-edge training. FIRST is the only known facility to be built from the ground up aimed at developing innovative solutions and enhancing tactical capabilities in key disciplines of public safety by partnering researchers and practitioners.

“Working with The RTC is exciting, and it furthers our goals to empower leaders around the world with the knowledge necessary to ensure safer communities by transforming public safety through research, education, and innovation.”  John Kuch, Unmanned Systems Analyst, F1RST.

About F1RST
Science and technology have transformed law enforcement and the overall landscape where we live today. Against a backdrop of an ever-changing world filled with increasingly complex and volatile threats, society has placed even greater demands on law enforcement and the criminal justice system to continue to advance in unprecedented ways. The solution requires collaboration and continuing research to develop new and improved methods, to fill gaps in industry knowledge, skills, capabilities, and to revolutionize training for practitioners in forensics, security, and tactics.

About F1RST
Science and technology have transformed law enforcement and the overall landscape where we live today. Against a backdrop of an ever-changing world filled with increasingly complex and volatile threats, society has placed even greater demands on law enforcement and the criminal justice system to continue to advance in unprecedented ways. The solution requires collaboration and continuing research to develop new and improved methods, to fill gaps in industry knowledge, skills, capabilities, and to revolutionize training for practitioners in forensics, security, and tactics.

Florida’s Forensic Institute for Research, Security, and Tactics (FIRST) represents such a collaboration – a partnership between academia and practitioners to develop a state-of-the-art research enterprise that will inform, innovate, and offer cutting-edge training. FIRST is the only known facility to be built from the ground up aimed at developing innovative solutions and enhancing tactical capabilities in key disciplines of public safety by partnering researchers and practitioners. F1RST is creating a network of sites, which will contain both indoor and outdoor research and training facilities in the areas of forensics, security, and tactics. FIRST will provide the public safety industry with a one-of-a-kind, integrated research and training experience, which includes state-of-the-art instructional facilities, next-generation training techniques, and collaborative partnerships with academia, practitioners, community-based organizations and local businesses to help spark innovative solutions to the complex problems in today’s world.

For more information, contact: John Kuch at (813) 997-8474 or via email: jkuch@pascosheriff.org