 ATAK-CIV logo | |
 ATAK 4.0.0.1-PR connected to a public TAKServer | |
| Developer(s) | Air Force Research Laboratory & Maintained by the TAK Product Center |
|---|---|
| Initial release | 2010 |
| Stable release | 5.2.0 (TAK.gov)
/ 18 July 2024 |
| Written in | Java, C, C++ |
| Operating system | Android |
| Available in | Multilingual |
| Type | Situational Awareness Software |
| License | Government off-the-shelf |
| Website | tak |
 Logo of TAKServer | |
| Developer(s) | Raytheon BBN Technologies & Maintained by the TAK Product Center |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 5.2
/ 11 July 2024 |
| Written in | Java |
| License | Government off-the-shelf |
| Website | tak |
Android Team Awareness Kit (ATAK) is an Android smartphone geospatial infrastructure and military situation awareness app. It allows for precision targeting, surrounding land formation intelligence, situational awareness, navigation, and data sharing. This Android app is a part of the larger TAK family of products.[1] ATAK has a plugin architecture which allows developers to add functionality. This extensible plugin architecture that allows enhanced capabilities for specific mission sets (Direct Action, Combat Advising, Law Enforcement, Protection Operations, Border Security, Disaster Response, Off-grid Communications, Precision Mapping and Geotagging).
It enables users to navigate using GPS and geospatial map data overlayed with real-time situational awareness of ongoing events. The ATAK software represents the surrounding area using the military standard APP-6 symbology, and customized symbols such as icons from Google Earth and Google Maps for iconography and the Cursor on Target data format standard for communication.[2]
Initially created in 2010 by the Air Force Research Laboratory,[3][4] and based on the NASA WorldWind Mobile codebase its development and deployment grew slowly, then rapidly since 2016.[5][6]
As of 2020, ATAK has a growing base of 250,000 military and civilian users across numerous public safety agencies and US partner nations, and has seen the addition of 15 United States Department of Defense programs.[7][8]
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- ^ "Snapshot: ATAK increases situational awareness, communication". Department of Homeland Security. 17 November 2017.
- ^ "ATAK Improves Situational Awareness for California Fire Department". Samsung Business Insights. 16 October 2019. Retrieved 19 October 2019.
- ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: TAK 2020 Offsite. YouTube.