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An in-depth look at the newest capabilities introduced in the TAK 5.6 product line, reposted from the TAK Product Center, TAK.Gov. This was a live session will highlight key updates, enhancements, and tools designed to improve performance, collaboration, and mission effectiveness. Whether you’re a long-time user or new to the TAK ecosystem, this is your chance to stay ahead of …
TAK 5.6 Feature Release (From the TPC) More
AFRL developed some TAK-based tools for finding missing people — from lost hikers to downed pilots. They’ve made the civilian components public — both as a web based tool (separate post) and here as an ATAK plugin. This YouTube video explains how to use the tool and includes a link to Google Drive for the APK (This will eventually go …
Search & Rescue Plugin Released More
The Air Force’s 88th Air Base Wing (ABW) released a promo video showing how they use TAK to secure bases. There’s a lot of overlap in what they do with Civilian and First Responder use — Policing, medical and bomb disposal for instance.
AF Security Forces Promo Video More
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