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Here: WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFNS) — When Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. David L. Goldfein asked leaders to “unleash the brilliance in our Airmen,” Air Force Materiel Command answered the call, executing more than $4.6 million in Squadron Innovation Funds in fiscal year 2018. “The ideas came from all levels of our organization. Airmen were motivated …
AF CSAF Funds Security Forces Experiment with TAK More
This entire article from the Denver Business Journal is worth a read: This year, the Center of Excellence debuted the Android Team Awareness Kit (ATAK), a geospatial mapping engine that facilitates situational awareness, navigation and data sharing among firefighters. As most fires occur miles away from reliable internet access, ATAK provides emergency personnel with smartphones and antennas to create a …
Colorado uses TAK to innovate on wildfires MoreAmerican Security Today reports that the Department of Homeland Security won a 2017 ASTOR Platinum award for its adoption of ATAK: DHS Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) Android Team Awareness Kit (ATAK) Enhanced Dynamic Geo-Social Environ (EDGE) Virtual Online Training for First Responders Flood Apex Program Flood Sensors *A 2017 ‘ASTORS’ Platinum Award Winner
ATAK Wins Homeland Security Award MoreHere’s the article. Most of the article covers problems with APASS/KILSWITCH, and related hacking issues. The whole article is worth a read, but the most important news regarding ATAK is this: That more rigorously tested and widely trusted program across the military branches, according to interviews with active-duty troops, is the Android Tactical Assault Kit (ATAK), which was developed and …
Mapping Apps are Endangering Special Operators, [But ATAK is not on that List] More
C4ISRNET Reports ATAK integration with CPCE, MCE: The Army is bringing two software products into the testing environment as the service changes its approach to its new vehicle-based common mission command system, the service’s program manager said. The Mounted Computing Environment will serve as one component of the Army’s eventual common operating environment, which envisions a suite of tools that …
ATAK Integrates with Army CPCE, MCE MoreFrom AFMC Tech Transfer news: Express licensing was chosen because it could quickly and easily get the technology in the hands of developers for broad distribution and further improvements,” said Oelkers. “One express license was completed in only 13 business days. Most traditional license agreements take months to negotiate and complete.” In the case of ATAK licenses, TechLink developed a …
AF expands use of express licensing MoreHere’s an GoTenna/ATAK integration video featuring CPS Tactical talking about how they use GoTenna and ATAK to provide situational awareness to jump teams in-jump. ATAK plus communications can transform the way people coordinate jumps.
GoTenna ATAK Integration Video MoreHere’s a great video with clips of TAK used in the background of the UN General Assembly from Fox News (Sorry — no embedding allowed from Fox). It talks about the challenges of bandwidth, physical and cyber-security. It also says that the NYPD leads the security.
TAK Behind the Scenes at UN General Assembly MoreOur team supporting #HurricaneFlorence relief ops with our Android Team Awareness Kit mobile situational awareness tech. Providing visualization for #rescue team and evac locations, live aerial footage, hazardous area and #flood water overlays and geofencing. #AFRLTech #AirForce pic.twitter.com/C4UcaPhqJw— Air Force Research Lab – AFRL (@AFResearchLab) September 20, 2018 Our team supporting #HurricaneFlorence relief ops with our Android Team Awareness Kit …
ATAK, AFRL Support Hurricane Relief (Twitter) MoreFrom Phys.org, written by ARL: An Army scientist recently won a best paper award at the Association for Computing Machinery’s 26th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization for discovering that most people cannot distinguish between liking a user interface and making good choices. Dr. James Schaffer, U.S. Army Research Laboratory scientist stationed at ARL West, and his collaborators at …
Army Integrates TAK, AI for C2 More