Questions people actually ask.

The Team Awareness Kit is a suite of geospatial mapping tools that lets tactical data be generated, visualized and shared on a map. Think of it as Google Maps with a great deal more underneath. It covers applications for Android (ATAK), Windows (WinTAK) and the browser (WebTAK), plus a server component, TAK Server.

Authorized users can pull the executables and documentation from the TAK.gov products tab.

ATAK is also on the Google Play Store, or through our own EOTAK™ Stack app.

On Android, ATAK. On iOS, we recommend TAK Aware. On Windows, WinTAK from the TAK.gov products tab.

TAK clients will run peer-to-peer for basic work, but a TAK Server is what makes it operational. The server is what carries reliable data sharing, user management and logging across different networks and separated locations.

ATAK is the Android version of TAK: a situational awareness tool built for military and first responders. It draws maps, sensors and real-time communications into one common operating picture, so a team can share what it sees, work a mission together, and decide on something better than a guess.

iTAK is the iOS version of TAK, and it does the same job as ATAK: maps, sensors and live communications in a single common operating picture.

For iOS we recommend TAK Aware instead.

TAK Aware is the iOS client we recommend. It is managed by Flight Tactics, not by EOTAK™.

It means the hosting, management and security of the server are ours, and the mission is yours. You get a powerful private TAK server without needing dedicated IT staff or hardware to keep it alive.

15 days from the day we hand over the server, with full administrator access and MARS included. The period does not extend, so plan what you need to prove around that window. A paid plan can follow it without a gap, and there is no setup fee. Request a 15-day T&E.

Yes. Every tier carries full administrative access, so you can upload, manage and distribute whatever plugins your work calls for.

You do, without qualification. Your server instance is private to your organization, and data is stored inside the server's own geographic region, which is US-based.

Yes, at any time. Scaling up or down as the team changes is expected, not an exception. Adding seats moves you along the same pricing table, so a larger count lowers the rate on the seats you already hold as well as the new ones. Contact support and we will work out the change with you.

There is one plan, priced per user, billed annually, and the rate falls as the seat count rises. Seats are charged in graduated bands, the way tax brackets work: the seats inside each band pay that band’s rate, and the totals are added together. Nothing is ever recalculated at a single flat rate, so adding a seat can only ever add money.

What that works out to per user is the effective rate, and it is published at every threshold. Ten seats cost $1,200.00 annually, which is $120.00 a user. Twenty-five cost $2,310.00, or $92.40 a user, and fifty cost $4,500.00, or $90.00 a user. Above 50 seats, pricing is by quote — contact sales. The full pricing table lists every threshold, and the pricing calculator gives an exact figure for any seat count. Annual billing earns that discount. Billed monthly, seats are $15.00 a user below ten seats and $10.00 from ten.

As of 2022 TAK Server is now Distribution A – Approved for Public Release. This means that any TAK.gov account holder can download TAK Server in the same way you would download, or develop plugins for, ATAK-CIV.

Read more at CIV TAK's website.

Setting up your own TAK Server involves server knowledge and a few steps with software installation. There are some great resources available to help guide you.

The TAK Community Discord Channel is a great place to start if you're new.

Open source tools from TAKWERX are available on their GitHub Page.

Yes, but "free" software on a $200 box is only the visible tip of a massive financial and operational iceberg. In mission-critical environments, the hidden downstream costs of self-hosted, unmanaged TAK infrastructure far outstrip the cost of an enterprise-managed solution.

That upfront seamingly cheap price tag creates a dangerous false sense of economy. Low-cost, localized hardware introduces single points of failure, lacks redundant compute, and cannot handle sudden spikes in tactical bandwidth or multi-node routing during live incidents.

Setting up a TAK Server and keeping it secure is deceptively complex. Your IT admins or engineers will burn dozens to hundreds of billable hours navigating base operating system hardening, firewall port forwarding, custom certificate authority generation, and device enrollment troubleshooting—diverting high-value personnel away from core operational tasks.

When a DIY server drops, real-time situational awareness evaporates. Operators in the field lose Blue Force Tracking, georeferenced sensor feeds, and collaborative mapping at the moment coordinated decision-making is most critical.

Even if you have a backup power supply connected to your server, it may not last long enough. A power failure during a natural disaster can easily outlast the backups in your house, office, or server room.

The open-source TAK ecosystem moves fast, leaving self-hosted systems vulnerable to emerging CVEs, unpatched dependencies, and external network intrusions unless an engineer manually monitors and patches the stack daily.

Community-supported software comes with no emergency hotline, no dedicated technician, and zero operational accountability. When your server fails in the middle of the night, you are entirely on your own.

Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are offered by professional hosting services. No matter who you choose, they should provide an SLA with enterprise-grade technical support with IT/engineering staff ready to respond.

There is NO guaranteed support from any free software. The same goes for Open Source TAK. If you get software from TAK Products Center (TAK.gov) or a developers GitHub page there is no obligation to support you. While there exists strong community support, don't expect support at 0200 when your infrastructure needs a quick fix.

Yes. It is free to download and free to use, from the Google Play Store and the App Store.

The TAK Product Center is the official repository. EOTAK™ Stack is a mobile-first way into the same world: it simplifies version management and offers a curated, vetted set of plugins and maps drawn from several sources including EOTAK™ partners, so you spend less time working out what is compatible with what.

No. EOTAK™ Stack is a standalone tool for managing your ATAK client and its resources. It is at its best next to an EOTAK™ Server, but it does not require one.