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What is TAK

Tactical Assault Kit (TAK) is a family of geospatial situational-awareness tools—most commonly the Android app ATAK (Android Tactical Assault Kit)—designed to give teams real-time mapping, location sharing, and mission planning.

TAK combines live Blue-Force/track displays, layered maps (raster/vector/WMS/WMTS/KML), chat and tactical messaging, sensor and video feeds, and route/target marking into a single, extensible client.

TAK is plugin-driven, allowing organizations to add capabilities such as detection, analytics, device control, and payload management tailored to their mission needs. Widely adopted by military, law enforcement, emergency-response, and civilian agencies, it is part of a broader ecosystem of clients, servers, and services that enables interoperable and secure coordination across battlefield and field operations.

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Who uses TAK​

TAK is used widely by the United States and by several U.S. military services and many U.S. government agencies, and it's been adopted or trialed by a number of U.S. partner militaries (most notably the British Army). Examples:

  • United States — extensive DoD use across services (U.S. Army, U.S. Special Operations Command, U.S. Air Force, National Guard and many DoD/DHS components).
  • United Kingdom — TAK was selected as the preferred Battle Management Application for the British Army's Dismounted Situational Awareness programme (DSA).
  • Canada — civil and military users are reported (Canadian Armed Forces and RCMP appear in TAK user lists).
  • Australia — examples of Australian forces integrating UAVs and systems with TAK have been reported.

Beyond those, TAK/ATAK/WinTAK variants are used by many NATO partners, allied militaries, and numerous law-enforcement and emergency-response agencies worldwide — the ecosystem has been widely licensed and deployed to both military and civilian organizations. Sources vary by country and programme (some adoptions are programme-level selections, others are unit or agency fielding).