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The Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control has been experimenting with TAK for a couple of years now, with GoTenna SPOT Trackers and tactical radios. Here’s a video they did discussing ATAK’s use in their career fields.
Co Firefighters Leveraging ATAK MoreWildfire Today has a short article on the Colorado division of Fire Prevention and Control’s evaluation of ATAK, here. To me, the best part of this is that its filed under “Colorado, Holy Grail”. The Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control is working on a system that could assist wildland firefighters on the ground by reporting their location as well …
Wildfire Today Covers CO use of TAK MoreIn September 2017, the Chief of Staff of the Air Force (CSAF) had one chart on technology — it covered ATAK’s use by multiple agencies Huricanes Harvey and Irma. ATAK was also used extensively in the aftermath of hurricane Maria, but its not covered in this video.
Air Force Chief of Staff Promotes ATAK at Air Force Association Keynote MoreHere’s a video on ATAK’s origins and some of the capabilities from 2016. A lot has changed.
TechLink Video on ATAK background MoreJorge Prodomo, of GoTenna, gave a brief of the compelling case for GoTenna products at the 2017 Special Operations Forces Industry Conference (SOFIC), where he included a discussion of GoTenna’s ATAK integration. Here’s the link to the ATAK discussion. The whole video is below. At about the 9 minute point he also talks about using TAKServer to bridge GoTenna with …
GoTenna SOFIC Brief-Fully ATAK Integrated 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 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 MoreHere’s an absolutely ancient video on route creation, editing and navigation. There have been several features added to this, but its a good start on familiarization.
Routes and Route Navigation MoreHere’s a video that shows basic drawing tools in ATAK 2.0. They are completely exportable to KML.
Drawing Tools in ATAK 2.0 More