ATAK Featured at AFRL INSPIRE Event
AFRL hosted an INSPIRE event to highlight innovation. ATAK was featured. 2nd Lt. Justin Davis, a program manager, and Peter Mozloom a senior computer scientist, both from AFRL’s Information Directorate in Rome, New York, presented a talk titled, “Managing a Crisis? There’s an App for That,” where they discussed the capabilities of a mobile AFRL application known as the Android …
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ATAK at the AFRL Inspire Expo
From TV 2 News in Dayton Ohio (Video in the link with short ATAK interview): The Dayton Convention Center filled with some of the nation’s most cutting-edge Air Force technology Thursday. At its third annual AFRL Inspire and Tech Expo, the Air Force Research Laboratory showcased the innovative ideas and passionate people across its organization. “We have just an enormous …
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Galaxy S9 Tactical Edition w/ ATAK Is Transforming Mission Operations
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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Prototype AERONET system
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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TAK Enables ‘Hyper-Enabled Operator’ Concept
National Defense Magazine has an interesting article on SOCOM’s “Hyper-Enabled Operator” concept, and part of that concept: The concept — which focuses on four pillars of technology including communications, computing, data/sensors and human-machine interfaces — is about pushing tailored information to a dismounted operator or unit at the tactical edge, he said during remarks at the National Defense Industrial Association’s …
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L3 Highlights ATAK w/ Panoramic NGVGs
The F-Pano can be networked to command-and-control (C2) systems including the US Special Operations Command’s (USSOCOM’s) Android Tactical Assault Kit (ATAK); as well as AR software, which enables end users to benefit from overlaid iconography into the head-up display.
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IVAS, Mixed Reality & ATAK
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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CA uses TAK, goTenna
This article from C4ISRNet.com discusses goTenna’s integration with ATAK and its use by California firefighters. the whole article is worth a read: Each goTenna device is a stand-alone tool that can work with other goTenna devices to transmit information through a mesh network. Multiple applications for the mesh network involve showing in real time the locations of people connected to …
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FLIR Recon Ultra Integrates with ATAK
American Security Online writes: Fully operational at less than three pounds, the breakthrough Recon V Ultra Lite provides long-range target detection, recognition, recording and geo-location with an HD color camera and dual FOV thermal channels. The system also has Android Tactical Assault Kit (ATAK) network capabilities to provide warfighters real-time understanding of what’s going on around them.
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