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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 …
Army’s Fort Benning Leverages ATAK MoreThe Stanford H4D program leveraged ATAK last summer. Here’s a long form article titled “I SAW THE FUTURE OF DEFENSE IN CALIFORNIA, AND IT’S COMING TO A UNIVERSITY NEAR YOU” from War on The Rocks.com. One of the big insights from the video was that the last thing the user needs is yet another system. They list users as SOCOM, …
Stanford H4D Report, Video MoreAccording 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 …
Par Gets AFRL ATAK Contract MoreStanford graduate students had a project leveraging ATAK and commercial drones in their H4D class. You can find their outbrief here. The project was funded by SOCOM and leveraged commercial drones.
Stanford Leverages ATAK MoreHere’s a research paper that describes the way ATAK works. A mapping application that allows teams to share relevant geospatial information efficiently and to communicate effectively with one another and command centers has wide applicability to many vertical markets across the Department of Defense, as well as a wide variety of federal, state local, and non-profit agencies that need to …
Research Paper Describing ATAK MoreThere’s an absolutely nonsense story that refuses to die Army Special Operations switching to iPhones. Its total nonsense. Someone heard something second hand about an iPhone app to replace ATAK, and they were iPhone fans. We have an iPhone version of ATAK, which works with the rest of the ecosystem, but its not ready for prime time yet. There’s no …
Nobody Switching to “‘Faster’ iPhones MoreAccording to SOF Magazine, DARPA’s SilentHawk, a stealth motorcycle has integrated with ATAK, “with an integrated power interface for an ATAK device” DARPA was commissioned to develop a new stealth motorcycle for the military in 2014. The goal: a motorcycle with no engine noise that allows the rider to sneak up on the enemy, that has a longer range that …
ATAK Integrated with “Stealth Motorcycle” MoreHere’s a presentation from Stanford working the SkyNet Program, which is attempting to integrate ATAK with drones for SOCOM and DARPA. The presentation also discusses the idea that ATAK’s plugin architecture is beginning to be an ecosystem in and of itself.
Stanford Teams w/ SOCOM on ATAK Drone Integration MoreHere’s a news report from 4 CBS Denver covering the Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control’s use of ATAK and Persistent Systems radios (also a Licensee — they ship many of their radios with ATAK). For ATAK fans, the best part of this was when David Tally refers to ATAK as “The Holy Grail of firefighting” according to David …
CO News Report: ATAK is the “Holy Grail” of Wildland Firefighting MoreFrom the Boulder Daily Camera: The Boulder Fire Department took advantage of a multi-jurisdictional wildfire training exercise Friday to test out a new technology, called Android Team Awareness Kit, that they hope will help them better coordinate efforts to fight large wildland fires and communicate with crews on the ground. The app, designed by PAR Government Systems Corporation, is based …
Boulder Fire Department testing ATAK More