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VIASAT Providing Android CyberSecurity Software

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ViaSat Inc. officials announced it was awarded a production contract to provide ViaSat Mobile Dynamic Defense (MDD) cybersecurity software to protect and secure Tactical Local Area Network (TACLAN) Field Computing Device – Wearable (FCD-W) platforms. ViaSat and iGov are working together on this contract, along with the U.S. Governmentto enable future platform and mission capabilities for the TACLAN FCD-W program, which is designed …

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24 SOW, Many Others Leverage ATAK for Hurricane Relief

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ATAK’s use in the hurricanes got some good coverage, because it had civilian users from around the area working with State and Local users.  Here’s an article from the 24th Special Operations Wing Special Tactics News. “We hit the ground running, and immediately had to begin adapting,” said the mission commander. One of those adaptions was quickly learning how to …

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NYPD Tests ATAK, goTenna

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been working with the New York City Police Department’s Counterterrorism unit to evaluate TAK for First Responder use.  They are evaluating ATAK, TAKServer and WinTAK. From the Article: The Department of Homeland Security Science (DHS) Technology Directorate (S&T) partners with first responders to gauge capability gaps and leverage existing technologies.

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DHS, NYPD Test ATAK

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RadioResource has an article on DHS’ collaboration with the NYPD on their test and evaluation of ATAK for Emergency responders, also integrating with another licensee, Persistent Systems. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) First Responder Group (FRG) examined two communications technologies and evaluated them for public-safety use. FRG evaluated the Mobile Ad-hoc Networking (MANET) system, …

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TRX Systems Integrates w/ ATAK

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TRX systems, which builds non-GPS geolocation tools did a demonstration at the Joint Navigation Conference in Dayton, OH. From the agenda: NEON Squad Tracker – 3D location with offline operation. Plug-ins have been developed that enable the solution to operate using Nett Warrior or ATAK Android Apps and their established networks for sharing PLI. Map data may be exported from …

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Techlink Story on ATAK

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Techlink published an article, here, on ATAK licensing that goes along with the video. Black Hawk Down (Battle of Mogadishu, Somalia) was the incident that triggered development of a powerful situational awareness tool by engineers at the AFRL Information Directorate. “People could not execute their missions because they didn’t know where everyone else was,” said Ralph Kohler, Principal Engineer at the …

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