Advanced Counter-UAS Readiness (CCSS)
The advanced readiness track for advisors and program builders.
The deep readiness track: threat fundamentals, legal authority, detection technologies, response architecture, and a graded vulnerability-assessment capstone. Prepares advisors and program builders to design and assess agency counter-UAS programs. It ends in a DELALLi Certificate of Completion — a record that you finished this course, not a federal certification and not a statement that you are competent or authorized. Only the FBI's NCUTC certifies.
Your instructor
Brian Rutherford brings an operator's lens to the drone threat. He is a U.S. Marine Corps combat veteran whose decorations include multiple Combat “V”s, including a Bronze Star. In the Marine Corps, SSgt Rutherford also served as a Combat Marksmanship Instructor and Foreign Weapons Instructor and trained in high-risk personnel protection and tactical combat casualty care, among other things. As a U.S. State Department protective-security professional with Triple Canopy, he led protective operations in high-threat environments. He is an FAA Part 107 pilot, Clemson UAS graduate, NIST BPERP certified, and a certified infrared thermographer, and previously built and scaled a government-contracting company. His career has been about reading threats, protecting people and sites from them, and thinking like the adversary who creates them — the exact discipline counter-UAS demands.