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Presidential Report on Modernizing Wildland Firefighting

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The President’s Council of Advisors on Science ad Technology (PCAST) has released a report titled “Modernizing Wildland Firefighting to Protect Our Firefighters” led by, led by Nobel Lauret and Cal Tech professor Frances Arnold, with former NASA astronaut Kathi Sullivan, PhD and John Dabiri, also a Cal Tech Professor. The report has five recommendations, the first of which is to …

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ATAK & GPS?

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Here’s an interesting article from GPS World, titled “Experts urge jamming detection network – Free webinar shows easy method using smartphones” on using a set of connected phones to detect GPS jammers and spoofers. The President’s National Space-based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Advisory Board  … recommends that … “The group’s most recent recommendation is to implement a detection network based on …

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ATAK 4.7 Released; Other Product Status Discussed

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ATAK 4.7 was released today with a bunch of small improvements, including support for Cyrillic (including Ukrainian) languages. You can find a complete, exhaustive discussion of what’s been added/changed/fixed/updated, along with the status of TAKServer, and TAKX in this video from the recent developer off-site, held in Rome, NY . Also, not mentioned in the video, you can now find …

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TAK Server released and open-sourced to the public.

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The TAK Product Center (TPC) “TAK Server” has been released and open-sourced to the public and available for download at https://tak.gov and GitHub. TAK Server is a tactical information management platform that provides data access and encryption across disparate networks. TAK Server secures, brokers, and stores data in standalone and federated configurations. Here’s the full announcement from the Director of …

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