DHS, NYPD Test ATAK

RadioResource has an article on DHS’ collaboration with the NYPD on their test and evaluation of ATAK for Emergency responders, also integrating with another licensee, Persistent Systems. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) First Responder Group (FRG) examined two communications technologies and evaluated them for public-safety use. FRG evaluated the Mobile Ad-hoc Networking (MANET) system, …

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4K Solutions Offers ATAK Training

4K Solutions and ToughStump Technologies offer training for ATAK. From their site: ATAK is a mapping engine developed for the Android Operating System which allows for precision targeting, intelligence on     surrounding land formations, navigation, and generalized situational awareness. ATAK is under continuous development by various government laboratories to include the Air Force Research Lab, the Army Research Laboratory and the …

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TRX Systems Integrates w/ ATAK

TRX systems, which builds non-GPS geolocation tools did a demonstration at the Joint Navigation Conference in Dayton, OH. From the agenda: NEON Squad Tracker – 3D location with offline operation. Plug-ins have been developed that enable the solution to operate using Nett Warrior or ATAK Android Apps and their established networks for sharing PLI. Map data may be exported from …

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Techlink Story on ATAK

Techlink published an article, here, on ATAK licensing that goes along with the video. Black Hawk Down (Battle of Mogadishu, Somalia) was the incident that triggered development of a powerful situational awareness tool by engineers at the AFRL Information Directorate. “People could not execute their missions because they didn’t know where everyone else was,” said Ralph Kohler, Principal Engineer at the …

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GoTenna SOFIC Brief-Fully ATAK Integrated

Jorge 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 …

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