Marine Raiders are some of the nation’s most elite warfighters, but Marine Corps Special Operations Command is pushing to make them even better with its “Cognitive Raider” initiative.

Airmen with the 86th Security Forces Squadron check their Android Tactical Assault Kit, or the Android Team Awareness Kit, ATAK, during Operation VARSITY 25-1 at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, March 11, 2025. This combat readiness exercise provided Airmen with the opportunity to coordinate with other squadrons and test their ability to respond to high-level threats to the installation and base personnel. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Dylan Myers)

Yoshida was among the first Americans to fight in Afghanistan in 2001.

Royal Marines rolled out the latest kit on training missions scaling cliff faces and battling through Gibraltar’s tunnels as they perfected techniques to safeguard the UK’s nuclear deterrent.

At Eurosatory 2022, Allen-Vanguard launches ATAK (Android Tactical Assault Kit ) ECM Plug-in to unify the command and control of their systems.

Defense contractor General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) successfully demonstrated enhanced situational awareness and targeting capability of an MQ-1C Gray Eagle in a recent exercise. The Extended Range drone was remotely controlled via an Android-powered tablet by a soldier on ground.

The D.C. National Guard holds training on the Team Awareness Kit (TAK) for Guardsmen from multiple states supporting Joint Task Force - DC, at the D.C. Armory in Washington, D.C., Sept. 23, 2025. TAK is a geospatial mapping engine, originally developed for the Android operating system, that facilitates tactical situational awareness, navigation, and data sharing. (U.S. Air National Guard video by Tech. Sgt. Missy Sterling)

As the DFPC Multi Mission Aircraft (MMA) observes the Beavertail Fire in Infrared, they were able to see the real time location of the Mesa County Sheriff's Office (MCSO), Fire Marshall (Win ACREE). The MCSO Fire Marshall was far below the aircraft and too small for the camera.

Project Convergence is the Joint Force experimenting with speed, range, and decision dominance to achieve overmatch and inform the Joint Warfighting Concept and JADC2.

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