USI Partners with Energy Drone & Robotics Coalition

PORT ST JOE, FL - The Unmanned Safety Institute (USI), the industry leader in remote pilot safety education, training, and certification, today announced an industry partnership with the Energy Drone & Robotics Coalition (EDRC) to promote and provide unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) training opportunities to the EDRC community members around the world.

The Energy Drone & Robotics Coalition is part of Stone Fort Group’s InnovateEnergy Community, which provides content, executive insights, thought leadership, “how-to” and real-world use cases to its global audience of 20,000+ energy executives and digital innovation leaders. The Energy Drone & Robotics Coalition hosts a yearly summit, which is dedicated to providing a space for launching, growing, and scaling enterprise unmanned systems operations in energy companies around the world.

EDRC and USI will combine resources to promote industry connectivity and encourage professional development opportunities for members of their community, such as drone service providers. EDRC’s course catalog will include USI’s full suite of training and industry certifications, including the sUAS Safety Ground School, UAS Flight Safety Endorsement, Visual Line-of-Sight System Operations (VSO™), FAA Remote Pilot Practice Exam, UAS 101, Unmanned Systems Foundations, UAS Applications, UAS Personnel, and Unmanned Safety Management.

“EDRC is the leading resource for technology benefits to the energy industry. USI is very pleased to support their effort with tried and tested risk management and safety solutions,” stated USI President Josh Olds.

Sean Guerre, Executive Director of EDRC, said, “We are excited to work with USI to promote so many key types of training and industry certifications for our growing community of energy, engineering and industrial UAS professionals.”

Anyone interested in taking advantage of these unmanned training opportunities can visit the Energy Drone & Robotics Coalition Catalog on USI’s website.

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About Unmanned Safety Institute

The Unmanned Safety Institute (USI) is the industry’s most widely recognized leader in flight safety solutions for individuals, enterprises, and organizations focused on integrating and operating Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) for civil or commercial purposes. The Unmanned Safety Institute, recognized as “best-in-class,” provides UAS flight safety training and certification to operational standards based on the adoption and modification of time-honored aviation safety practices. With 150+ instructors and over 10,000 customers around the world, USI is considered the global leader in UAS safety education, training and certification delivering the most highly-regarded training program and career pathway initiatives of its kind. USI is approved for professional development credits by industry organizations, endorsed by major aviation insurance providers, and whose training programs have been evaluated and recommended for college credit by the American Council on Education. Discover more at www.UnmannedSafetyInstitute.org.

About Energy Drone & Robotics Coalition

The Energy Drone & Robotics Coalition (EDR Coalition or EDRC) is focused on innovating energy operations with dynamic UAV, Robotics, Data and Automation solutions. EDRC is dedicated to launching, growing and scaling enterprise unmanned systems operations in energy companies worldwide by bringing the major rapidly growing segments within the UAV/AUV/Robotics ecosystem together with the energy industrial complex asset owners and end users.These are the only events and information resources exclusively focused on the business and technology of unmanned systems (aerial, ground/surface & subsea) in energy operations. Learn more at https://www.edrcoalition.com/.

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