Universities Present “Resilient Networking” Paper Leveraging ATAK

Michigan Tech, Indiana University, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, sponsored by NIST presented a paper on networking with ATAK for forest firefighting using a mix of LTE and WiFi, and leveraging a Raspberry Pi for data ferrying with a drone.  The presentation is here.

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Reaching Forward in the War Against the Islamic State

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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Army’s Fort Benning Leverages ATAK

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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Research Paper Describing ATAK

Here’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 …

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ATAK Wikipedia Page & Tech Transfer Plan

I did a public release presentation at MITRE on ATAK and the ATAK Technology transfer plan this month.  Someone started a Wikipedia page on the project and posted the presentation there. The presentation lays out the rationale and capabilities of the program, why we should make TAK widely distributed, out to the civilian world and why it is that this matters to the DoD …

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