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From Isreali Tech news, i-HLS.Com: A technology originating in the US military sector is being tested in order to help save firefighters’ lives. The ATAK – Android Team Awareness Kit is essentially a tool that tells firefighters exactly where they are and what kind of fire they’re seeing. ATAK was developed by the US Air Force Research Lab in order …
ATAK serves Fire Fighters More
Here: WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFNS) — When Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. David L. Goldfein asked leaders to “unleash the brilliance in our Airmen,” Air Force Materiel Command answered the call, executing more than $4.6 million in Squadron Innovation Funds in fiscal year 2018. “The ideas came from all levels of our organization. Airmen were motivated …
AF CSAF Funds Security Forces Experiment with TAK MoreHere’s the article. Most of the article covers problems with APASS/KILSWITCH, and related hacking issues. The whole article is worth a read, but the most important news regarding ATAK is this: That more rigorously tested and widely trusted program across the military branches, according to interviews with active-duty troops, is the Android Tactical Assault Kit (ATAK), which was developed and …
Mapping Apps are Endangering Special Operators, [But ATAK is not on that List] More
C4ISRNET Reports ATAK integration with CPCE, MCE: The Army is bringing two software products into the testing environment as the service changes its approach to its new vehicle-based common mission command system, the service’s program manager said. The Mounted Computing Environment will serve as one component of the Army’s eventual common operating environment, which envisions a suite of tools that …
ATAK Integrates with Army CPCE, MCE MoreHere’s an GoTenna/ATAK integration video featuring CPS Tactical talking about how they use GoTenna and ATAK to provide situational awareness to jump teams in-jump. ATAK plus communications can transform the way people coordinate jumps.
GoTenna ATAK Integration Video MoreHere’s a great video with clips of TAK used in the background of the UN General Assembly from Fox News (Sorry — no embedding allowed from Fox). It talks about the challenges of bandwidth, physical and cyber-security. It also says that the NYPD leads the security.
TAK Behind the Scenes at UN General Assembly MoreOur team supporting #HurricaneFlorence relief ops with our Android Team Awareness Kit mobile situational awareness tech. Providing visualization for #rescue team and evac locations, live aerial footage, hazardous area and #flood water overlays and geofencing. #AFRLTech #AirForce pic.twitter.com/C4UcaPhqJw— Air Force Research Lab – AFRL (@AFResearchLab) September 20, 2018 Our team supporting #HurricaneFlorence relief ops with our Android Team Awareness Kit …
ATAK, AFRL Support Hurricane Relief (Twitter) MoreFrom Phys.org, written by ARL: An Army scientist recently won a best paper award at the Association for Computing Machinery’s 26th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization for discovering that most people cannot distinguish between liking a user interface and making good choices. Dr. James Schaffer, U.S. Army Research Laboratory scientist stationed at ARL West, and his collaborators at …
Army Integrates TAK, AI for C2 More
The Strategy Bridge argues that ATAK can/should drive communication innovation within NATO by transforming communications. Here’s an excerpt, but the whole thing might be worth a read: Innovative technologies that can effectively connect multiple NATO special operations forces, such as multilateral online and offline mapping, military radio controlling, text messaging, targeting, calling for fire, etc. already exist. Currently, the Tactical …
ATAK to Drive NATO Innovation? MoreThe Strategy Bridge argues that ATAK can/should drive communication innovation witin NATO by transforming communications. Here’s an excerpt, but the whole thing might be worth a read: Innovative technologies that can effectively connect multiple NATO special operations forces, such as multilateral online and offline mapping, military radio controlling, text messaging, targeting, calling for fire, etc. already exist. Currently, the Tactical …
ATAK to Drive NATO Innovation? More