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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.
NYPD Tests ATAK, goTenna MoreRadioResource 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, …
DHS, NYPD Test ATAK MoreIn addition to downloading ATAK and many related apps, plugins, documentation and training from the DI2E Research and Development Web site (CaC or Clearnance required), you can also download a recent copy of ATAK-Mil at the NGA App Store (Government email or other verification required).
ATAK Available at NGA App Store MoreHere’s a video on ATAK’s origins and some of the capabilities from 2016. A lot has changed.
TechLink Video on ATAK background MoreStauder Technologies announced that they have successfully integrated and tested their Variable Message Format communications system with ATAK. There are actually six press releases showing Stauder products integrated as plugins to ATAK. Quite a success as a Software Development Kit (SDK) Licensee.
Stauder Demonstrates ATAK VMF MoreTRX systems, which builds non-GPS geolocation tools did a demonstration at the Joint Navigation Conference in Dayton, OH. From the agenda: NEON Squad Tracker – 3D location with offline operation. Plug-ins have been developed that enable the solution to operate using Nett Warrior or ATAK Android Apps and their established networks for sharing PLI. Map data may be exported from …
TRX Systems Integrates w/ ATAK MoreTechlink 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 …
Techlink Story on ATAK MoreAeronix has added ATAK to its Mobile IDM lineup, so that ATAK can leverage Aeronix’ soft modem technology.
Aeronix adds ATAK to MobileIDM MoreiGov’s TACLAN program added ATAK to its FCD-W system. It included testing with VMF and Link-16 compatibility. From the Embedded Military.com report: iGov announced that it has completed Operational Utility Assessment (OUA) on its Tactical Local Area Network (TACLAN) Family of System (FoS) Field Computing Device-Wearable (FCD-W). Testing was accomplished during Digitally-Aided Close Air Support (DACAS) testing at a Department …
SOCOM’s TACLAN Validates ATAK MoreATAK has a brief mention in this presentation by Headquarters USMC’s presentation on Modern Tactical Communications given at the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA). .
USMC Puts ATAK in MAGTF Digital Interoperability More