National Guard Touts ATAK Use in Hurricanes

National Guard Magazine has an article that covers some of their use of ATAK during last year’s hurricanes.  Here is the relevant portion, and some discussion of FirstNet.Gov.  We expect to put TAKServer and ATAK-Civ in the FirstNet Store “soon”.  You can also find a copy of this article in pdf format here (see the last two pages). Force Tracker When …

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ATAK Wins Tech Transfer Award

By law, every technologist in a Federal Laboratory is required to perform Technology Transfer if practical to do so.  More precisely, the law says, “Technology transfer, consistent with mission responsibilities, is a responsibility of each laboratory science and engineering professional.” Android-based Team Awareness Kit – ATAK The story, here, is included in its entirety below:  The Android Team Awareness Kit …

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Mobile Tech For First Responders

This article from American Security Today covers the needs of First Responders for current Situational Awareness and collaboration. It touches on several events last year that either ATAK helped at or would have helped if it were used.  It also touches on the use of ATAK by DHS and how TAK is transferred to private companies.  There are a total …

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Universities Present “Resilient Networking” Paper Leveraging ATAK

Michigan Tech, Indiana University, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, sponsored by NIST presented a paper on networking with ATAK for forest firefighting using a mix of LTE and WiFi, and leveraging a Raspberry Pi for data ferrying with a drone.  The presentation is here.

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Smart Radios Connect Ground Robots

Here’s an article from Microwaves and RF Magazine covering Persistent Systems’ MPU5 MANET radio (a great radio).   It talks about the fact that the radios are interoperable with ATAK, and that it allows control of Unmanned Ground Systems, but it doesn’t actually say that the robots are controlled by ATAK. Here’s the article: Robots are playing larger roles in military …

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GoTenna Announces ATAK Integration

GoTenna announced that they have integrated their GoTenna Pro off-grid radios with ATAK, including ATAK-Civ. Android Team Awareness Kit (ATAK) The leading situational awareness and C2 application for U.S. Special Forces. Developed and maintained by the Air Force Research Labs and SOCOM. Extend your team’s geographic presence as ATAK nodes without cell, wifi, satellites.  

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CO Firefighters Report Using ATAK, Comm

The Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control published a study on their evaluation of ATAK with goTennas, SPOT Trackers and tactical radios. Here is the study, and here’s an excerpt from the report: The Center of Excellence for Advanced Technology Aerial Firefighting (CoE) took advantage of the field test of satellite messengers to test an additional system that uses …

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SOCOM’s SOFWERX Hosts Hacking event

SOCOM’s SOFWERX hosted a Rapid Prototyping Event this month to build on the ATAK Platform as follows: Key technologies demonstrated levels of autonomy and mapping for land and air to include navigation and target identification, analytics in geospatial and intelligence, interoperability with ATAK, small sub surface vessels, and legged Unmanned Ground Vehicle robots that transit through diverse terrain. There were also …

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DHS to hold additional Android Team Awareness Kit training sessions

Homeland Preparedness News reports on DHS’ use of ATAK: After the Android Team Awareness Kit (ATAK) was successfully used to coordinate multi-agency responses to recent hurricanes, additional training sessions have been held for federal, state, and local officials, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced on Friday. ATAK, which was initially developed for use by U.S. Special Forces in 2010, …

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