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“I compile information that comes in from our subordinate units and give it back to our leadership to help them battle track what’s going on in the field, ” said 2nd Lt. Nicolas George, battle captain and chief of operations. “We use the TrellisWare TSM, tactical satellite and ATAK chat function to communicate with the companies.”
ATAK Integrated w ITN More
From Phys.org, written by Army Research Lab: If you were convinced you knew the way home, would you still turn on your GPS? Army scientists recently attempted to answer a similar question due to an ongoing concern that artificial intelligence, which can be opaque and frustrating to many people, may not be helpful in battlefield decision making. “The U.S. Army …
TAK Should Integrate AI? More
DefenseNews.com has an article on Mavin, which gets an ATAK mention. Here’s a few more paragraphs for the context: The perception problem Unsurprisingly, the Maven case frequently came up during the discussion. Panelists largely agreed there is a perception problem about DoD in Silicon Valley, but disagreed on how to tackle it. Trae Stephens, a co-founder at Anduril Industries and at principal …
ATAK bridging cultural divide? More
One of the more notable use cases compatible with goTenna Pro and the new goTenna Pro X is Android Team Awareness Kit (ATAK), developed by the government and available off-the-shelf for government users. ATAK is, first and foremost, a kind of “blue force tracker,” allowing users connected through the app to see where everyone is.
Can goTenna Pro-X mesh with tactical network needs? More
From SUAS News: DroneShield Ltd (ASX:DRO or DRO.AU) (“DroneShield” or the “Company”) is pleased to advise the market that the U.S. Department of Defense Asymmetric Warfare Group at Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia has evaluated DroneShield’s products DroneSentry™ and DroneGun Tactical™ at an event facilitated by the Army Night Vision Electronic Sensors Directorate (NVESD) Unique Mission Cell (UMC). DroneShield’s successful deployment …
Drone Shield Integrates w/ ATAK MoreThis 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 …
Fox News: Hacking risk rises ‘exponentially’ for troops using personal devices, experts warn MoreFrom 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).
Boeing/Insitu Interoperable w/ ATAK MoreThis is GoTenna’s video showing its Go Kit for teams. They don’t talk much about ATAK, but they show that it comes as part of the package, along with GoTenna Pros and configuration software.
goTenna Pro X Deployment Kit Featuring ATAK More
This excerpt from AFCEA’s Signal Magazine discusses TAK’s use: The squadron relied heavily on WinTAK to achieve near-instantaneous communication with the regiment, which was testing the Android Tactical Assault Kit as part of the integrated tactical network suite. A cellular data connection using Wi-Fi was the primary connection point to the network because it provided reliable communications with subordiante troops. The squadron …
Saber Strike 2018 Leverages TAK More
From Breaking Defense (ATAK Ref in last paragraph). It would be great if TAK integrated with IVAS: The artificially intelligent target detection will be part of the Integrated Vision Augmentation System (IVAS), for which Microsoft’s HoloLens won a two-year, $480 million contract earlier this week. I’ve written extensively about IVAS’s other features back when it was still called HUD 3.0. It’s essentially …
IVAS Compared to ATAK More