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Here’s a great video of how the FBI managed the security for the 2017 inauguration. This was the Federal Government’s Command and Operations center, “nerve center” on inauguration day.
Inside the FBI’s Inauguration Ops Center MoreThe Combating Terrorism Technology Support Office is soliciting bids for an ATAK/Cloud/Drone integration project it is running. From he solicitation: R4148 SUAS TO TACTICAL CLOUD INTEGRATION Current small unmanned aerial system (sUAS ) technology requires a ground control station (GCS) for each air vehicle. Each sUAS manufacturer has its own unique or proprietary GCS and communications configurations that require system-specific …
CTTSO Seeks Drone/Cloud/ATAK Integration MoreThe Combatting Terrorism Technical Support Office (CTTSO) announced that they’ve funded a secure data at rest virtual machine running directly off of a micro SD card to run ATAK for Homeland Security, the DoD and the Intelligence Community. Its also on page 61 of the CTTSO Annual Review Book. Here’s an excerpt: Description: GSCS provides tactical level infrastructure and information assurance services …
CTTSO funds ATAK Secure Comm System MoreHere’s a paper from National Defense University on ATAK’s uses against ISIL using a concept called “Remote Advise and Assist” written by members of the Department of Defense. …the special forces soldiers that had arrived in country were already trained in an Android cell phone program developed by the U.S. Government called “ATAK,” short for “Android Tactical Assault Kit.” This program …
Reaching Forward in the War Against the Islamic State MoreHere: Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate (AFRL/RI) and Griffiss Institute (GI) were recently honored during the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) for Technology Transfer’s Northeast Regional Meeting at Brookhaven National Laboratory, in Upton, New York, this past September. The Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate was bestowed with two awards. The FLC Regional Coordinator’s Excellence Award went to Franklin E. …
ATAK wins Regional Technology Transfer Award MoreThe Stanford H4D program leveraged ATAK last summer. Here’s a long form article titled “I SAW THE FUTURE OF DEFENSE IN CALIFORNIA, AND IT’S COMING TO A UNIVERSITY NEAR YOU” from War on The Rocks.com. One of the big insights from the video was that the last thing the user needs is yet another system. They list users as SOCOM, …
Stanford H4D Report, Video MoreAccording to this article, Par Government Systems was awarded a contract to work on the Special Tactics-Tactical Assault Kit for AFSOC. Here’s the article: PAR Technology’s wholly-owned subsidiary has been awarded a research and development contract with the US Air Force (USAF) Research Laboratory (AFRL) Information Directorate for the special tactics tactical assault kit (ST-TAK) programme. AFRL is developing a …
Par Gets AFRL ATAK Contract MoreAccording to SOF Magazine, DARPA’s SilentHawk, a stealth motorcycle has integrated with ATAK, “with an integrated power interface for an ATAK device” DARPA was commissioned to develop a new stealth motorcycle for the military in 2014. The goal: a motorcycle with no engine noise that allows the rider to sneak up on the enemy, that has a longer range that …
ATAK Integrated with “Stealth Motorcycle” MoreHere’s a presentation from Stanford working the SkyNet Program, which is attempting to integrate ATAK with drones for SOCOM and DARPA. The presentation also discusses the idea that ATAK’s plugin architecture is beginning to be an ecosystem in and of itself.
Stanford Teams w/ SOCOM on ATAK Drone Integration MoreHere’s a news report from 4 CBS Denver covering the Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control’s use of ATAK and Persistent Systems radios (also a Licensee — they ship many of their radios with ATAK). For ATAK fans, the best part of this was when David Tally refers to ATAK as “The Holy Grail of firefighting” according to David …
CO News Report: ATAK is the “Holy Grail” of Wildland Firefighting More