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The TAK Syndicate
Advocating for the Team Awareness Kit

Shared consciousness for every responder.

The TAK Syndicate is an ad-hoc group of focused professionals collaborating to promote the Team Awareness Kit as a tool to enhance efficiency, effectiveness and overall safety for emergency response — across every discipline, from the fire line to the hot zone. Nothing for sale. Just practitioners sharing what works.

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Wildfire: aircraft video beside the map
Wildfire: aircraft video beside the map
WildfireHazmatActive threatSearch & rescueFlood & waterLaw enforcementEMSPlanned events

01 Learn & share

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New to TAK?

What TAK is, what it costs, which version you need, and where to get it.

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infra-TAK

A free, open-source console that stands up a TAK Server stack. No more SSH.

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ATAK plugins

Free plugins like PLSS Grid — downloads, guides and version matrix.

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TAKwerx

The open-source hub: infra-TAK, ATAK and CloudTAK plugins, and where to report problems.

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Who’s using TAK

A live map of agencies and organizations running TAK in the field.

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The ecosystem

Vendors, agencies, communities and tools across the TAK landscape.

Built in the open

TAKwerx

TAKwerx is the open-source workshop of The TAK Syndicate. A working first responder builds the TAK tools the field keeps asking for: a server stack you can stand up from a browser, ATAK plugins for fire, weather, hazmat and SAR, CloudTAK plugins, and ATAK on your desktop. Everything is free, the code is on GitHub, and every problem you report goes straight to the person who fixes it.

Explore TAKwerx
ATAK TerminalReal ATAK in a window on your Mac or PCinfra-TAKThe whole TAK stack from one browser consoleATAK plugins16 plugins, one Market to install themCloudTAK pluginsDispatch and live exercises in CloudTAKReport a problemStraight to the right issue trackerGitHubEvery line of code, in the open

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