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Increasing Cross-Agency Collaboration

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Here’s an article on how DHS is using ATAK to enhance cross-agency collaboration.  It discusses recent hurricane uses and Texas border collaborations. Here’s the complete article: When Hurricane Harvey hit Texas, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) deployed the Android Team Awareness Kit (ATAK) to support the complex communication and coordination needs of the multi-jurisdictional …

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Wildfire Today Covers CO use of TAK

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Wildfire Today has a short article on the Colorado division of Fire Prevention and Control’s evaluation of ATAK, here.  To me, the best part of this is that its filed under “Colorado, Holy Grail”. The Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control is working on a system that could assist wildland firefighters on the ground by reporting their location as well …

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Downloading ATAK-Civ

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UPDATE: You can download the Android Team Awareness Kit (ATAK) – Civilian (CIV) through the TAK Product Center at TAKMaps.com.* Original Article: You can download ATAK-Civ 3.6.1 from here. You can use ATAK to download and use the imagery from Evr2est.US, here, either ask JP2000 GeoTiffs, or with a bit more work as WMS feeds. Evr2est.us is a Government-run web …

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Air Force Chief of Staff Promotes ATAK at Air Force Association Keynote

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In September 2017, the Chief of Staff of the Air Force (CSAF) had one chart on technology — it covered ATAK’s use by multiple agencies Huricanes Harvey and Irma. ATAK was also used extensively in the aftermath of hurricane Maria, but its not covered in this video.    

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NYPD Tests ATAK, goTenna

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been working with the New York City Police Department’s Counterterrorism unit to evaluate TAK for First Responder use.  They are evaluating ATAK, TAKServer and WinTAK. From the Article: The Department of Homeland Security Science (DHS) Technology Directorate (S&T) partners with first responders to gauge capability gaps and leverage existing technologies.

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DHS, NYPD Test ATAK

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RadioResource has an article on DHS’ collaboration with the NYPD on their test and evaluation of ATAK for Emergency responders, also integrating with another licensee, Persistent Systems. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) First Responder Group (FRG) examined two communications technologies and evaluated them for public-safety use. FRG evaluated the Mobile Ad-hoc Networking (MANET) system, …

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Techlink Story on ATAK

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Techlink published an article, here, on ATAK licensing that goes along with the video. Black Hawk Down (Battle of Mogadishu, Somalia) was the incident that triggered development of a powerful situational awareness tool by engineers at the AFRL Information Directorate. “People could not execute their missions because they didn’t know where everyone else was,” said Ralph Kohler, Principal Engineer at the …

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