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
Software Fast Track Initiative
https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4174350/software-fast-track-initiative/
May 05, 2025 — On April 24, Ms. Katie Arrington, performing the duties of the DoD Chief Information Officer (CIO), signed a memo titled "Accelerating Secure Software," which establishes the Software Fast Track (SWFT) Initiative for the Department. This effort is aligned with Secretary Hegseth's guidance (Directing Modern Software Acquisition to Maximize Lethality, March 6, 2025) and will reform the way the Department acquires, tests, and authorizes secure software.
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Army could be moving to eliminate radios at the tactical edge
https://defensescoop.com/2025/04/22/army-could-be-eliminating-radios-at-tactical-edge-gen-mingus/
April 22, 2025 — As the Army looks to modernize under what it calls its Next Generation Command and Control architecture, the service's vice chief said radios will be replaced by smartphone-like devices.
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Shaping a new Airman identity through drone integration
https://www.jbmdl.jb.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/4161751/shaping-a-new-airman-identity-through-drone-integration/
April 21, 2025 — JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST N.J. -- In a groundbreaking effort to enhance operational capabilities, the U.S. Air Force has launched a new initiative aimed at incorporating Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) into the training of Airmen across various career fields.
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2025 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.
TAK 5.4 Feature Release
Explore the Latest in TAK 5.4: A Live Discussion on New Features
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.
