Brits Highlight TAK
The British Army highlighted their use of TAK today on LinkedIn. The article they link to doesn’t explicitly mention TAK, but its about advanced technology.
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AERONet Demos TAK
AERONet hasn’t gotten a lot of explicit press, and even less for TAK, but it has been the core of AERONet’s IT from day zero (in late 2018…). Surprisingly, there’s still no mention of TAK here. As mentioned in the article, the program is run by the “Quick Reaction Branch”.
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Contractors demonstrate single-user drone swarm at DARPA experiment.
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.
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TAK Tracker Available in the Google Play Store
The official version of TAKTracker has been released.
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Here’s How Fire Departments Can Improve Efficiency Using Mobile…
This article from Enterprise Security discusses the demand for “fast, accurate communications technology is higher than ever”, how mobile technology can improve situational awareness, and help support a wider range of crises, and that some firefighters are turning to ATAK to fill that need.
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FTS Now Has an Easy To Use GUI-Its Free & Available
There’s a TAK Server with a GUI, and its available now.
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Hammer Plugin in the Play Store
the Plugin from the TAK Offsite that integrates with legacy radios to do basic communications in ATAK, variously called either “Hammer” or “ARIK” is now in the Play Store under the name “Hammer”. The plugin is open source, with the source of the Government’s GIT page. I anticipate that it will be resigned for subsequent versions of ATAK, though its …
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CBS SEAL Team Features ATAK
CBS’ TV Series, “SEAL TEAM, Season four, episode 1 features several ATAK cameos, with extensive use of ATAK in the Command Center, though its more of a Hollywood mockup of ATAK rather than the real thing. However, some might still find it interesting. You can watch the episode here.
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OpenTAK Conference Now Online
The OpenTAK Conference Video sessions & all the presentations.
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Setting up ATAK w/ ZeroTier-Now with Encryption Instructions
Post-Conference, the instructions for setting up ZeroTier with TAK have been updated to include instructions on how to implement encryption on the network. You can find the updated guide here.https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dZucjpX5xMFu3ChvF_NHcQpaI44_NMd9/view?usp=sharing
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