Modern defence, security and public safety operations are increasingly distributed, dynamic and information rich. Personnel must coordinate across multiple teams, platforms, domains and locations – often in rapidly changing operational environments where timely decisions are critical to mission success.
At a time when the need for digitally connected operations has never been greater, achieving operational advantage is dependent on the ability to rapidly collect, share and act upon information collated from a complex landscape of disconnected systems, isolated data sources and fragmented communication channels.
TAK (Team Awareness Kit) is a proven situational awareness platform that helps the defence, security and public safety communities meet today’s challenges. It enables users to share information, coordinate activity and maintain a common operational picture in real time.
Leveraging our extensive operational experience and TAK engineering expertise, we help organisations around the world to deploy and exploit TAK at pace through wide ranging TAK services within an open architecture, reducing risk and accelerating operational advantage.
Introducing Unified Operational Awareness
While TAK provides a powerful situational awareness capability, its operational potential cannot be realised if deployed alone. BAE Systems Unified Operational Awareness is our integrated approach to delivering a complete ecosystem built around TAK, with ATAK serving as the primary user interface at the tactical edge, transforming it from a technology platform into an effective operational situational awareness capability.
It combines TAK with secure hosting, mission services, systems and sensor integration, bespoke plugin development, training and support to deliver a mission-ready situational awareness capability. Rather than relying on multiple disconnected technologies and suppliers, organisations benefit from a unified solution designed to connect people, platforms, sensors and information sources within a shared operational environment.
Tailored deployments
Every operational environment is different. BAE Systems Unified Operational Awareness is designed to adapt to customer objectives through flexible deployment options, systems integration and capability extension.
We can deliver a deployment approach aligned to your operational needs and security requirements. This includes:
- Fully Managed Service: Deploy TAK without managing the infrastructure
- Customer Cloud: Deploy within your cloud environment
- Customer Infrastructure: Deliver capability within existing environments
- Tactical Environments: Operational capability at the tactical edge
Key benefits
Our Unified Operational Awareness offerings, powered by TAK, help organisations establish a trusted and shared operational picture across teams, platforms and domains – delivered in the UK and internationally.
By connecting personnel, systems and information sources, organisations can improve situational awareness, strengthen coordination and accelerate decision-making at every level of the mission.
Customers benefit from:
- Faster, better-informed operational decisions
- Enhanced situational awareness across the force
- Improved collaboration between teams, platforms and partners
- Reduced complexity associated with integrating multiple systems
- Accelerated deployment of new operational capabilities
- Greater interoperability with coalition and multi-agency partners
- An open architecture for greater mission flexibility
- Reduced dependence on specialist in-house TAK expertise
- A scalable and future-ready operational ecosystem
We enable a more connected, informed and responsive force that can understand more, coordinate better and act faster.
Why BAE Systems?
We help customers around the world design, deploy, integrate, extend and support TAK capabilities within complex operational environments.
Our team brings together expertise in systems integration, software development, infrastructure, training and operational support – supplemented by secure cloud integrations with all major hyperscaler offerings – to help customers establish secure, scalable and mission-ready capabilities.
With extensive experience across the TAK ecosystem, we support the full capability lifecycle – from concept and demonstration through to operational deployment and sustainment.
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