TAK Announcements
Hundreds of satellites to give military faster tactical comms and data
https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2024/04/10/hundreds-of-satellites-to-give-military-faster-tactical-comms-and-data/
April 10, 2024 — NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — A space-focused program spreading hundreds of small satellites in low orbit aims to bring clearer communications and faster data transfer in the field to military units, a key to Marine Corps war-fighting needs.
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Army picks Akamai for prototype battlefield zero trust project: T-ICAM
https://breakingdefense.com/2024/04/army-picks-akamai-for-prototype-battlefield-zero-trust-project-t-icam/
April 05, 2024 — WASHINGTON — The Army picked cloud and edge-computing giant Akamai to develop prototype cybersecurity software for its combat units, the service announced today. The project, known as T-ICAM, or Tactical Identity Credential & Access Management, aims to bring modern “zero trust” cybersecurity techniques to the networks used by Army forces in the field. Combat units will field test early prototypes later this year and provide feedback for rapid upgrades, the service said, with a larger rollout in 2025.
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Embracing IOP/JAUS Standards With ATAK for Robots
https://www.eetimes.com/embracing-iop-jaus-standards-with-atak-for-robots/
March 19, 2024 — Originally designed for military operations, the Android Tactical Assault Kit (ATAK) and associated hardware-based controllers that run the ATAK application have become a formidable choice for systems that require a high degree of versatility and adaptability.
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Exclusive: Army Vice Chief talks network evolution, possible C-UAS shakeup and other priorities
https://breakingdefense.com/2024/03/exclusive-army-vice-chief-talks-network-evolution-possible-c-uas-shakeup-and-other-priorities/
March 04, 2024 — The Army’s new Vice Chief of Staff Gen. James Mingus recently sat down with Breaking Defense to discuss a few of his priorities that include network changes to include transitioning from a ‘C2 Fix’ to ‘C2 Next.’
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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.
