TAK Mobile and Desktop Apps
iOS
Supported on iOS 16.0 or later.
iTAK
Android
Supported on Android 5 or later.
ATAK
Windows
Supported on Windows 10/11 64-bit.
WinTAK
Linux
Supported on Ubuntu 18.04, Fedora 26, Debian 10, RHEL/CentOS 8
TAKX
TAK Mobile Apps ( source code )
TAK Server ( source code )
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TAK Announcements
The Army’s dream of vastly simplified networking is starting to come true
https://www.defenseone.com/defense-systems/2024/10/armys-dream-vastly-simplified-networking-starting-come-true/400365/
October 18, 2024 — Field commanders want even less gear to tend, but two divisions are showing how things are improving. Service leaders have been working to make that web more reliable, secure, and capable. Radio mesh networks, which are foundational to ITN, are good for calls or texts, and sending location data from Android Tactical Assault Kit, or ATAK. Satellite networks can handle large amounts of data, like a drone’s video feed, and are often used when a military unit is not in range of a cell tower. But threading it all together is tricky, so the Army selected units to test out network upgrades.
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$20,000 CivTAK Hackathon!!!
https://www.civtak.org/2024/10/05/20000-civtak-hackathon/
October 05, 2024 — The Griffiss Institute is sponsoring a virtual “Takathon” over the next six weeks focusing on civilian uses of TAK for large scale events. The prize will be $20,000! This Hackathon focuses on what TAK does best: This challenge invites participants to transform the coordination of large-scale public events using advanced technology like ATAK and CivTAK. The challenge focuses on enhancing real-time communication, situational awareness, and seamless operations, empowering event organizers, security teams, and public services to manage everything from planning to crisis response effectively.
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MBDA, Rheinmetall committed to bring maritime laser system to market
https://www.defenceconnect.com.au/naval/14809-mbda-rheinmetall-committed-to-bring-maritime-laser-system-to-market
September 25, 2024 — German defence manufacturer Rheinmetall and German missile systems company MBDA Deutschland have committed to further development of laser weaponry. Both companies announced an aim is to bring a joint maritime product to the market within the next five to six years, in a bid to open new possibilities in relation to drone defence on shipping.
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2024 TAK Offsite
This hybrid event, hosted by the TAK Configuration Steering Board (CSB), consists of briefs and demos from the TAK Community across program offices, services, federal agencies, labs, and users.
2023 TAK Offsite
This hybrid event, hosted by the TAK Configuration Steering Board (CSB), consists of briefs and demos from the TAK Community across program offices, services, federal agencies, labs, and users.
2023 TAKathon Event July 11-13
Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and the TAK Product Center (TPC) are proudly co-sponsoring the event with a primary focus on Public Safety.
Operational Success Starts with TAK
Complete Situational Awareness
Maps and situational awareness (SA) are critical to coordinated tasks in many contexts, including kinetic military action, law enforcement, civil protection, and disaster relief. TAK has the ability to display a wide variety of map data, either stored or downloaded in real-time. TAK is the USG's premier tool for shared SA data and has the largest selection of features designed to facilitate real-time coordination between team members through the use of mission specific plugins.
Pre-Mission Planning
In addition to the standard mission execution planning tools, mission specific capabilities give a user more insight into certain aspects of their assigned tasks. Navigation tools, including viewshed analysis, help users select and traverse a pre-planned route buy displaying the elevation profile of the route along with speed, distance, and bearing to the next waypoint.
Pre-mission planning is essential to enabling safe, effective, and rapid deployment of resources. TAK enables effective planning by providing a common understanding of exposure and vulnerabilities based on real time updates of any rapidly developing environment.
Streamlined Deployment
Points, routes, drawing objects, and files can be shared through TAK user defined groups, teams or simply broadcasted. While most data sharing clients require a server, TAK’s CoT & chat sharing features can operate in a server-less environment amongst nodes operating on the same network. TAK Server can be introduced to extend client connectivity across networks or federated for persistent command and control.
From highest commander to the ground forces and attached air & sea assets, deploying with the TAK Common Operational Picture ensures safe, dynamic, and effective mission execution.
