Janes: Brits Select TAK for Dismounted SA
TAK) has been selected as the preferred battle management application (BMA) solution for the British Army’s Dismounted Situational Awareness (DSA) programme….
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TAK Tames Dragons
Here’s an article in TAK being used by joint US forces for JADC2 CBR applications. The recent Resolute Dragon 2 (RD2) ATD …. featured several U.S. Marines, airmen, and sailors participating in integrated chemical, biological, and radiological (CBR) science and technology (S&T) experiments in Joint Force real-world scenarios to give feedback on the utility of new systems integrating sensors, battlespace-awareness …
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Presidential Report on Modernizing Wildland Firefighting
The President’s Council of Advisors on Science ad Technology (PCAST) has released a report titled “Modernizing Wildland Firefighting to Protect Our Firefighters” led by, led by Nobel Lauret and Cal Tech professor Frances Arnold, with former NASA astronaut Kathi Sullivan, PhD and John Dabiri, also a Cal Tech Professor. The report has five recommendations, the first of which is to …
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ATAK & GPS?
Here’s an interesting article from GPS World, titled “Experts urge jamming detection network – Free webinar shows easy method using smartphones” on using a set of connected phones to detect GPS jammers and spoofers. The President’s National Space-based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Advisory Board … recommends that … “The group’s most recent recommendation is to implement a detection network based on …
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An ATAK Valentine
Happy Valentine’s Day!
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DARPA OFFSET Demo
The DARPA OFFSET Program controls a swarm of UAS and UAVs using Robot Operating System (ROS) and interfaces to ATAK’s UAS tool. Here’s a video From Kyle Usbeck describing the program.
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AR TAK Video
From LinkedIn:
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Adding Rubber Sheets in CivTAK/ATAK
Dallas Clements posted a video today on how turn a paper map into a Rubber Sheet in CIVTAK/ATAK. I did one a couple of years ago, but his shows how its done with the new user interface. One of the nice things about this is that he gives an elevation-based example of why its better viewed in 3D with ATAK …
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Custom Icons in ATAK
Here’s a video that Dallas Clements did to show how to import custom Icons into ATAK. It looks like he’s doing a series.
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Raytheon Building “Civilian Affairs” Plugin
Raytheon (BBN) announced that they are building an ATAK plugin to manage Civilan Affairs tasks. The program is funded by Irregular Warfare Technical Support Directorate or IWTSD (Formerly the Combatting Terrorism Technical Support Office). You can find the complete press release here.
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