News - CivTAK / ATAK

The Manila Times reports that the Philippines Government is leveraging several advanced technologies to manage their Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ). The article discusses several technologies. Here’s what they said about ATAK: JTF Covid Shield teams are deployed with 500 units of highly secured Samsung smartphones, installed with a mission essential app suite called Android Tactical Awareness Kit (ATAK). Another app the …

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Panasonic Features ATAK w/ Phones & Toughbooks

April 2, 2020April 14, 2020 - Leave a Comment

Panasonic recently posted a video to YouTube discussing how ATAK plus Toughbooks and Panasonic rugged phones are the key to situational Awareness. Its a very complementary of the TAK program’s transformation capabilities.

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News

CivTAK 3.13 Manual

February 15, 2020April 7, 2020 - Leave a Comment

The CivTAK Manual is here.

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Licensing / News / Uncategorized

Samsung Touts ATAK Fighting CA Fires

October 17, 2019February 14, 2020 - Leave a Comment

“DHS continues to champion the use of ATAK as an all-risk tool for first responders, and we’ve been really impressed with how Galaxy devices elevate the use of ATAK in the field,”

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Government / Licensees / News

Galaxy S9 Tactical Edition w/ ATAK Is Transforming Mission Operations

May 14, 2019February 15, 2020 - Leave a Comment

the S9 Tactical features a preconfigured software suite that delivers enhanced communications, navigation, mapping, surveillance, reconnaissance, battlefield coordination and geospatial information and allows ATAK and radios to integrate better.

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Air Force / News

Prototype AERONET system

May 11, 2019May 17, 2019 - Leave a Comment

Executive Gov.com has an article on AERONET, but there are few details: The Hanscom Air Force Base has started developing a prototype combat tool to allow voice, chat, video, command and control functions for partner countries. Conceptualized by Gen. David Goldfein, the Airborne Extensible Relay Over-Horizon Network will connect friendly units and deliver real-time location data and enemy movement to other allied …

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Army / Government / News

IVAS, Mixed Reality & ATAK

April 9, 2019May 17, 2019 - Leave a Comment

Here’s an article on IVAS with a discussion of ATAK from the Army Times. (This whole article is worth a read): ONE DEVICE, MULTIPLE FUNCTIONS IVAS is drawing on existing and developing Army programs to bring a host of functions and capabilities into one device. The Android Tactical Assault Kit is a program that allows soldiers to use current military …

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DoD / Government / Licensees / News

US Army To Give Soldiers New 1-Ounce Hidden Weapons That Will Change the Game

February 7, 2019May 17, 2019 - Leave a Comment

FLIR has a contract to produce micro UAS for the Army. This is the sort of battlefield “Internet of Things” that pairs well with TAK. There’s no word on whether this system will actually be integrated with TAK, but FLIR is a licensee.

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DoD / Government / News

Fox News: Hacking risk rises ‘exponentially’ for troops using personal devices, experts warn

December 24, 2018May 17, 2019 - Leave a Comment

This is NOT a story about ATAK, but one of its competitors. One outstanding piece of advice from this article is that you should only use software operationally that’s properly vetted an configured for your system. DO NOT use your personal device operationally — doing so is taking risks you don’t fully understand. Troops who bring their personal tablets and …

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News / Video

Boeing/Insitu Interoperable w/ ATAK

December 23, 2018May 17, 2019 - Leave a Comment

From this article on Insitu (a subsidiary of Boeing) discusses its integration with ATAK during Northern California’s Camp Fire: Insitu’s suite of real-time intelligence acquisition and distribution capabilities provide live Motion Imagery Standards Board (MISB)-compliant video and flight telemetry to extensible mapping engines such as the Android Tactical Assault Kit (ATAK) and the Windows Tactical Assault Kit (WinTAK).

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