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This press release from GoTAK announces that the Malaysian Air Force SOF-PASKU has adopted TAK and that GoTAK is supporting TaaS (TAK as a Service), with GoTAK providing the expertise, integration and training under the control and direction of the Malaysian Air Force. This provides the United States with the ability to collaborate and interoperate seamlessly with a significant strategic …
TaaS Contractor Supports Malasia’s AF SOF More
This article from LinkedIn by Michael Lickliter, from the Corona, CA Fire Highlights the value of adopting the TAK Ecosystem for Public Safety, with a focus on UAS, but showing how all of public Safety integrates with TAK, with an additional discussion with some of the states and municipalizes using the TAK ecosystem to their cost-effective benefit. Mike Did a …
TAK- The Free High-Powered UAS Ecosystem Transforming Public Safety More
I saw this LM-generated explainer that goes well with This recent article on TAK and public safety. This was generated by Google’s Notebook LM (a great tool!) possibly from the same article.
TAK Public Safety Explainer More
This article from Medium on TAK for civil use very well. It focuses on Texas DPS which is doing a great job at using TAK at scale.
TAK & The Tactical Situational awareness Revolution Transforming Emergency Response More
The United Kingdom and new NATO member Finland conducted a joint exercise in snowy Vousanka near the Russian border with a total of 3,000 solders. They used TAK as the tactical command nad control collaboration tool.
UK, Finland Exercise Arctic- Interoperability w/TAK More
The Air Force’s 88th Air Base Wing (ABW) released a promo video showing how they use TAK to secure bases. There’s a lot of overlap in what they do with Civilian and First Responder use — Policing, medical and bomb disposal for instance.
AF Security Forces Promo Video More
SkyFi now provides direct integration to commercial high resolution satellite imagery through TAK. Technically they have been doing this for a while.
Current Satellite Imagery From Commercial Sources More
I saw this great GitHub site from https://reddit.com/u/_nKLS has DTED Level 2 (I assume he really means SRTM). It has a bunch of Mega.NZ links and is broken down by country/island/US State. Unzip and place in \atak\dted\
DTED Level 2 For Most of the World More
Here’s an ATAK Plugin development tutorial. (multiple parts) with video from Godfrey Nolan, of RIIS. See the web pages as well as the videos. Part I: Part II:
ATAK Plugin Development Tutorial More
The Griffiss Institute is sponsoring a virtual “Takathon” over the next six weeks focusing on civilian uses of TAK for large scale events. The prize will be $20,000! This Hackathon focuses on what TAK does best: This challenge invites participants to transform the coordination of large-scale public events using advanced technology like ATAK and CivTAK. The challenge focuses on enhancing …
$20,000 CivTAK Hackathon!!! More