ATAK Services

Situational awareness in the palm of your hand

Android Tactical Assault Kit (ATAK, also known as the Android Team Awareness Kit) is a government-off-the-shelf app for Android smartphones. It is available to all government agencies for free. ATAK is a game-changer to operators, providing a complete situational awareness and communication coordination capability that is unmatched. DS2 is equipped to effectively support clients in adoption of ATAK and expand functionality for specific requirements.

DS2 offers a variety of services to support the adoption and use of ATAK. We can provide consultation in basic installation and configuration, as well as design and develop migration strategies to create custom solutions and integrations within ATAK. ATAK provides enhanced real-time situational awareness while providing enterprise information sharing capabilities to increase collaboration and mission success.

Discovery Engagement

Determining your ATAK needs

During a discovery engagement, DS2 will engage with a customer for a set period - typically two days - for a set price. We will consult with the customer and provide advice such as:

Onsite discovery of short, mid and long-term goals for successful deployment of ATAK & TAK Server
Technical deep dive into existing business area (network topology, environment, business needs, security constraints)
Scope planning for short and mid-term goals to deliver ATAK and TAK Server to their internal customers

Education Services

Enabling ATAK for you and your team

DS2 offers instructor-led courses designed to give participants a hands-on, engaging learning experience. A variety of options are available, and more are being actively planned and built throughout FY21.

Private instructor-led: A DS2 instructor delivers a course to your team live at your organization's facilities, or remotely using video conferencing. DS2 will work with you to identify and scope the training needs for your team and deliver a custom learning experience either at your facilities or remotely.

Migration Services

Moving forward with ATAK

As part of services engagement, we offer migration services from legacy systems. These services include consulting with the customer's technical staff about the best way to migrate the existing solution to the ATAK architecture. We can implement the migration in a phased approach to ease adoption.

In all cases, a migration plan will be created with the customer to outline goals of the migration, as well as any plans that involve customer or DS2 actions.

Implementation/Integration Services

Setting up your ATAK Base of Operations

DS2 will also collaborate with a customer's technical team to develop an integration plan for the ATAK implementation. Typically, part of the overall implementation plan, the integration plan will consider a customer's existing systems, workflows, and policies regarding:

Number of devices/users
Existing network setup
Security requirements
User authentication
Size of installation
Workflow
Bandwidth considerations