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  • TAK Offsite 2026

TAK is public.

What drives it is not on this website.

The software is visible. The judgment, hard lessons, and operational experience behind it are not. Meet the people who built TAK from the mission out.

  • August 18-20, 2026
  • Colorado Springs, Colorado
  • Hybrid Event
  • Featured Story
Real-World Impact · 2:36

3 days

No substitute for being there

One room

The people who built it

Firsthand

The decisions shaping what comes next

  • A Brief Look

Voices from the TAK community.

A look at the experience, decisions, and operational needs behind TAK.

Why the offsite

The context is not online.

Dr. Chris Tucker on what only comes through direct exchange with the people who shaped TAK.

Why TAK endures

Built by the mission.

AJ Johansson on why TAK stays in the kit when the environment is complex and time matters.

  • Colorado Springs, Colorado

Be in the room.

Get the context.

TAK grew from operational need and a refusal to accept disconnected tools. Spend three days with the people who built it. Understand the capability from the inside.

August 18-20, 2026

Colorado Springs, Colorado Hybrid Event


01
The people

Operators, mission planners, first responders, developers, and integrators.


02
The why

The decisions and field lessons that shaped TAK.


03
The work

What is being tested, integrated, and built now.

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
VR

Supported on most VR Headsets

VR-TAK
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TAK Announcements

Pacific Command Visits 1st SFG(A)

https://www.dvidshub.net/image/9901478/pacific-command-visits-1st-sfga

August 26, 2026 — A U.S. Soldier assigned to 5th Security Force Assistance Brigade, explains the use of the Android Tactical Assault Kit (ATAK) in recent exercises to the Senior Enlisted Advisor of Pacific Command, United States Marine Corps Sgt. Major Eric Cook, right, at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, Aug. 28, 2026. This visit highlights the cooperation between 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) and 5th SFAB who share a role in strengthening U.S. Army presence in the Pacific theater. 1st SFG(A) maintains highly lethal, rapidly deployable forces to execute the full spectrum of special operations alongside allies, partners, and the joint force as the preferred partner and premier special operations entity in the U.S. Pacific Command area of responsibility. (U.S. Army photo by Cpl Micah Wilson).

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Han Kuang focuses on battlefield responsiveness

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2026/08/13/2003862417

August 13, 2026 — The Han Kuang Exercise yesterday tested the ability of units to repair damaged vehicles, redeploy forces and adapt to changing battlefield conditions without waiting for orders as the annual drills entered their final day.

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DroneShield launches RfRecon portable RF intelligence system

https://www.militaryaerospace.com/uncrewed/news/55397634/droneshield-launches-rfrecon-portable-rf-intelligence-system

August 13, 2026 — DroneShield's RfRecon combines RF detection, direction finding, and signal analysis in a portable system for counter-UAS and electronic warfare missions.

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2026 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.

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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.

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TAK 5.4 Feature Release

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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.

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