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AERONet hasn’t gotten a lot of explicit press, and even less for TAK, but it has been the core of AERONet’s IT from day zero (in late 2018…). Surprisingly, there’s still no mention of TAK here. As mentioned in the article, the program is run by the “Quick Reaction Branch”.
AERONet Demos TAK More
The Raytheon BBN-led team’s used a combination of commercial off-the-shelf and custom built hardware and software for its swarming technology, even incorporating a virtual reality head set for the user to control the systems.
Contractors demonstrate single-user drone swarm at DARPA experiment. More
UAS Tool, WASP Plugins are now available to the public.
UAS Tool Now Publicly Available More
The official version of TAKTracker has been released.
TAK Tracker Available in the Google Play Store More
This article from Enterprise Security discusses the demand for “fast, accurate communications technology is higher than ever”, how mobile technology can improve situational awareness, and help support a wider range of crises, and that some firefighters are turning to ATAK to fill that need.
Here’s How Fire Departments Can Improve Efficiency Using Mobile… More
At an urban warfare exercise last year in California, the British say, nearly 100 marine commandos defeated 1,500 of their US counterparts because of help from the situational awareness technology.
“The normal assault rules are completely inverted. It’s not three or four to one that’s needed, it’s one to four.”
Royal Marines Rock w/ ATAK More
There’s a TAK Server with a GUI, and its available now.
FTS Now Has an Easy To Use GUI-Its Free & Available More
the Plugin from the TAK Offsite that integrates with legacy radios to do basic communications in ATAK, variously called either “Hammer” or “ARIK” is now in the Play Store under the name “Hammer”. The plugin is open source, with the source of the Government’s GIT page. I anticipate that it will be resigned for subsequent versions of ATAK, though its …
Hammer Plugin in the Play Store More
Atlas tracker integrated with ATAK.
ATLAS Tracker w/ ATAK More