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CivTAK ’26 will be November 18, 19 & 20 at the Arlington Marriott. The Program is taking shape and will be exciting and informative with the latest technology, tutorials and recent use cases, Sponsors lining up and Registration is now open! If TAK for public safety is your thing, THIS is your event. Register Today!https://civtakconf.com/
CivTAK ’26 Registration is Open More
This article from Inside GNSS announces that “Zephr.xyz, a provider of augmented position, navigation, and timing (AugPNT) technologies, has been awarded a $1.74 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Direct-to-Phase II contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to develop real-time detection of GNSS jamming and spoofing in contested domains while geolocating the sources of these attacks.” “Zephr.xyz’s dual-use …
TAK & Counter GNSS Contract More
This short video fom ABC News February 17 reports that CTI’s BlueFly integrating with ATAK (really from their promo video), and that the investigation used it in an attempt to detect personal signals from her pacemaker near her house. Nothing was discovered.
TAK, BlueFly & The Guthrie Investigation More
This press release from GoTAK announces that the Malaysian Air Force SOF-PASKU has adopted TAK and that GoTAK is supporting TaaS (TAK as a Service), with GoTAK providing the expertise, integration and training under the control and direction of the Malaysian Air Force. This provides the United States with the ability to collaborate and interoperate seamlessly with a significant strategic …
TaaS Contractor Supports Malasia’s AF SOF More
I saw this LM-generated explainer that goes well with This recent article on TAK and public safety. This was generated by Google’s Notebook LM (a great tool!) possibly from the same article.
TAK Public Safety Explainer More
This article from Medium on TAK for civil use very well. It focuses on Texas DPS which is doing a great job at using TAK at scale.
TAK & The Tactical Situational awareness Revolution Transforming Emergency Response More
The United Kingdom and new NATO member Finland conducted a joint exercise in snowy Vousanka near the Russian border with a total of 3,000 solders. They used TAK as the tactical command nad control collaboration tool.
UK, Finland Exercise Arctic- Interoperability w/TAK More
The Griffiss Institute is sponsoring a virtual “Takathon” over the next six weeks focusing on civilian uses of TAK for large scale events. The prize will be $20,000! This Hackathon focuses on what TAK does best: This challenge invites participants to transform the coordination of large-scale public events using advanced technology like ATAK and CivTAK. The challenge focuses on enhancing …
$20,000 CivTAK Hackathon!!! MoreHere’s a great video on how James Bond could leverage TAK for Urban operations by T.RexLabs. Its both humorous and very informative. I do a lot of these already, but I also learned a few things. (T.Rex — Fire escapes are great maps to capture. Also, you should mention TAK Tracker).
How James Bond Would use TAK MoreUpdate (9/20/2023): The KnowML APis have been publicly released. They are in the Google Drive link below. The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is planning to conduct an “Ask Me Anything” regarding its currently pre-released Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) topics to try and integrate Machine Learning to the TAK enterprise. (Link to some public documents related to the topics …
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