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Rockwell Collins announce their ATAK took , FasTAK™ at the Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries’ CANSEC trade show May 30-31. From Learn more here.
Rockwell Debuts FASTAK ATAK Plugin for Communications MoreMichigan 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.
Universities Present “Resilient Networking” Paper Leveraging ATAK MoreHere’s an article from Microwaves and RF Magazine covering Persistent Systems’ MPU5 MANET radio (a great radio). It talks about the fact that the radios are interoperable with ATAK, and that it allows control of Unmanned Ground Systems, but it doesn’t actually say that the robots are controlled by ATAK. Here’s the article: Robots are playing larger roles in military …
Smart Radios Connect Ground Robots MoreGoTenna announced that they have integrated their GoTenna Pro off-grid radios with ATAK, including ATAK-Civ. Android Team Awareness Kit (ATAK) The leading situational awareness and C2 application for U.S. Special Forces. Developed and maintained by the Air Force Research Labs and SOCOM. Extend your team’s geographic presence as ATAK nodes without cell, wifi, satellites.
GoTenna Announces ATAK Integration MoreThe Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control published a study on their evaluation of ATAK with goTennas, SPOT Trackers and tactical radios. Here is the study, and here’s an excerpt from the report: The Center of Excellence for Advanced Technology Aerial Firefighting (CoE) took advantage of the field test of satellite messengers to test an additional system that uses …
CO Firefighters Report Using ATAK, Comm MoreHere’s a very nice article on the Department of Homeland Security using ATAK during the 2017 Hurricane season, and how they started doing additional training for their people afterwards. After the Android Team Awareness Kit (ATAK) was successfully used to coordinate multi-agency responses to recent hurricanes, additional training sessions have been held for federal, state, and local officials, the Department …
DHS Holds Additional ATAK Training MoreThe Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control has been experimenting with TAK for a couple of years now, with GoTenna SPOT Trackers and tactical radios. Here’s a video they did discussing ATAK’s use in their career fields.
Co Firefighters Leveraging ATAK MoreWildfire 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 …
Wildfire Today Covers CO use of TAK MorePersistent Systems announced its new radio, the MPU-5, which ships with the current version of ATAK-Civ. Here’s the spec sheet on the radio itself, and here’s a quick summary:
New Persistent Systems Radio Ships w/ ATAK MorePersistent Systems, a TAK licensee, has announced that their new MPU5 is integrated with ATAK. See their entire brochure here.
Persistent Systems Integrates ATAK More