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Here’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 MoreThe National Guard’s Civil Support Teams have adopted ATAK for use in their missions, which according to Wikipedia is approximately counter WMD. The article discusses their need to collaborate with organizations across the civil government, including the FBI, Border Patrol (DHS) and many other agencies. Here’s what the article said: The team also tested their communications vigorously, using the Mobile …
National Guard Civil Support Teams Adopt ATAK MorePrimordial Ground Guidance now integrates with ATAK. Here’s a brief description of the features supported: What can it do? Fast route. Ground Guidance generates the fastest route between two points. Movement projection. Movement projection enables one to predict the likely location of an entity (e.g. a downed pilot or sniper fleeing an area) given a last known location, travel duration, and transportation …
Primordial Ground Guidance Integrates w/ ATAK MoreThe ATAK team got an award for its work in commercializing the ATAK program as required by law. From the Rome Sentinel: The Rome Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate and the Griffiss Institute received awards during the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) for Technology Transfer’s Northeast Regional Meeting at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton. For the Rome lab/Information Directorate, the …
ATAK Tech Transfer Award MoreHere’s a story and video about DARPA’s Persistent Close Air Support (PCAS) program, including a video. From the article,
ATAK PCAS Test Video MoreThe Nett Warrior program commissioned a trade study a trade study of various mobile mapping solutions over the past year. The study was conducted by the Army Geospatial Center, part of the Army Corps of Engineers. They selected ATAK over others in the field, including ESRI’s CJMTK. One thing that makes this selection particularly noteworthy is that it was selected …
Nett Warrior Trade Study Chooses ATAK MoreHere’s a research paper written to describe AFRL’s project using TAKServer (MARTI) to do data ferrying between disconnected systems. Abstract—The effectiveness of ground-based, wireless tactical data networks is often constrained by limitations such as communication range and line-of-sight. SATCOM is not always available because it is relatively expensive and highly contended. Data ferrying is an alternative method of data transfer …
Data Ferrying with UAS MoreFrom Defense News Systems: The Air Force is starting a new program that could potentially allow users other than the pilot to control airborne sensors—allowing shared access for multiple warfighters. The Information Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory released a presolicitation for the Information Management-Enabled Sensor Tasking and Ad Hoc Control program yesterday. [snip] AFRL plans to leverage three sets of …
AFRL Leverages ATAK for iSTAC Program MoreI did a public release presentation at MITRE on ATAK and the ATAK Technology transfer plan this month. Someone started a Wikipedia page on the project and posted the presentation there. The presentation lays out the rationale and capabilities of the program, why we should make TAK widely distributed, out to the civilian world and why it is that this matters to the DoD …
ATAK Wikipedia Page & Tech Transfer Plan MoreThis article, somewhat in response to the Draper article was posted in the Rome Sentinel. Its a quick overview of ATAK and TAKServer. From the article, An Android Tactical Assault Kit application being developed for the military by the Rome Air Force Research Laboratory in conjunction with several private contractors can be used on battlefields to call in airstrikes, among …
Rome Sentinel Covers ATAK More