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The USDA’s Forest Service posted an article and video showing off their adoption of the Team Awareness Kit for wildland forest fire fighting. From the article: Here’s the video from the article: Team Awareness Kit from USDA Forest Service on Vimeo.
USDA/Forest Service Adopting TAK More
The TAK Product Center’s Director, Ryan Mclean’s presentation is available on TAK.Gov, but I thought it was important enough to put on YouTube, particularly for the difference between cost and price and why TAK is a great value for the government and the public.
“The Road to Information Dominance” – TAK Offsite Directors Presentation 2023 More
DARPA’s secure Distributed information sharing technology has been transitioned to TAK and Integrated.
DARPA Transitions Distributed Information Exchange to TAK More
Here’s an article in TAK being used by joint US forces for JADC2 CBR applications. The recent Resolute Dragon 2 (RD2) ATD …. featured several U.S. Marines, airmen, and sailors participating in integrated chemical, biological, and radiological (CBR) science and technology (S&T) experiments in Joint Force real-world scenarios to give feedback on the utility of new systems integrating sensors, battlespace-awareness …
TAK Tames Dragons More
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 …
Presidential Report on Modernizing Wildland Firefighting More
The DARPA OFFSET Program controls a swarm of UAS and UAVs using Robot Operating System (ROS) and interfaces to ATAK’s UAS tool. Here’s a video From Kyle Usbeck describing the program.
DARPA OFFSET Demo More
Dallas Clements posted a video today on how turn a paper map into a Rubber Sheet in CIVTAK/ATAK. I did one a couple of years ago, but his shows how its done with the new user interface. One of the nice things about this is that he gives an elevation-based example of why its better viewed in 3D with ATAK …
Adding Rubber Sheets in CivTAK/ATAK More
Here’s a video that Dallas Clements did to show how to import custom Icons into ATAK. It looks like he’s doing a series.
Custom Icons in ATAK MoreATAK 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 …
ATAK 4.7 Released; Other Product Status Discussed More
The Raytheon BBN-led team’s used a combination of commercial off-the-shelf and custom built hardware and software for its swarming technology, even incorporating a virtual reality head set for the user to control the systems.
Contractors demonstrate single-user drone swarm at DARPA experiment. More