DoD / Government

CTTSO Seeks Drone/Cloud/ATAK Integration

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The Combating Terrorism Technology Support Office is soliciting bids for an ATAK/Cloud/Drone integration project it is running.  From he solicitation: R4148 SUAS TO TACTICAL CLOUD INTEGRATION Current small unmanned aerial system (sUAS ) technology requires a ground control station (GCS) for each air vehicle. Each sUAS manufacturer has its own unique or proprietary GCS and communications configurations that require system-specific …

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DoD / Government

CTTSO funds ATAK Secure Comm System

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The Combatting Terrorism Technical Support Office (CTTSO) announced that they’ve funded a secure data at rest virtual machine running directly off of a micro SD card to run ATAK for Homeland Security, the DoD and the Intelligence Community.  Its also on page 61 of the CTTSO Annual Review Book. Here’s an excerpt: Description: GSCS provides tactical level infrastructure and information assurance services …

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Documentation / DoD / Government

Reaching Forward in the War Against the Islamic State

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Here’s a paper from National Defense University on ATAK’s uses against ISIL using a concept called “Remote Advise and Assist” written by members of the Department of Defense.  …the special forces soldiers that had arrived in country were already trained in an Android cell phone program developed by the U.S. Government called “ATAK,” short for “Android Tactical Assault Kit.” This program …

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Licensees

Avwatch Licenses TAK for Public Safety

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Avwatch announced that they’ve licensed ATAK for public safety support, service and training. PLYMOUTH, MA, (NOVEMBER 2015) – Avwatch, Inc. (Avwatch) has been awarded a civilian license for the business use of a high-tech app, developed by  the military, for applications that include first responder, emergency management and environmental protection. Developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) in Rome, …

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Government

ATAK wins Regional Technology Transfer Award

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Here: Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate (AFRL/RI) and Griffiss Institute (GI) were recently honored during the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) for Technology Transfer’s Northeast Regional Meeting at Brookhaven National Laboratory, in Upton, New York, this past September. The Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate was bestowed with two awards. The FLC Regional Coordinator’s Excellence Award went to Franklin E. …

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Documentation

Army’s Fort Benning Leverages ATAK

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The Army at Fort Benning has been using ATAK.  Here’s a description from the AWAE Systems book, 2017: The Android Tactical Assault Kit (ATAK) is a tactical SA and C2 application developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). The software application runs on any Android operating system using version 4.0.4 or later. It supports planning and executing missions; airborne …

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DoD / Government / News

Par Gets AFRL ATAK Contract

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According to this article, Par Government Systems was awarded a contract to work on the Special Tactics-Tactical Assault Kit for AFSOC. Here’s the article: PAR Technology’s wholly-owned subsidiary has been awarded a research and development contract with the US Air Force (USAF) Research Laboratory (AFRL) Information Directorate for the special tactics tactical assault kit (ST-TAK) programme. AFRL is developing a …

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