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Here’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 MoreHere’s a great video on ATAK by DHS — presumably the DHS S&T Directorate. Its about six minute long and shows how they use it fir team collaboration. They also have a whitepaper on their evaluation of ATAK here on how they found ATAK increases situational awareness, communication and alters the understanding of actions across agencies.
DHS’ ATAK Video MoreHere’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 …
Increasing Cross-Agency Collaboration MoreThe Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) built a collaborative Mission Planner for ATAK. Research: • The Collaborative Mission Planner (CMP) produces CONOPs built collaboratively by multiple TAK devices. The CMP creates mission products as a living product of planning • TAK CMP was developed using Design Thinking Methodologies. • ADAPT team held weekly design sessions in person, via VTC, and telephonically …
NPS Leverages ATAK for Research MoreHere’s a video of Stonewall Defense talking about their work licensing and providing service for ATAK-Civ for public safety agencies.
Stonewall Defense on Spectrum TV 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 MoreUPDATE: 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 …
Downloading ATAK-Civ MoreIn 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.
Air Force Chief of Staff Promotes ATAK at Air Force Association Keynote 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 More