Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) systems help dispatchers, and ultimately responders, manage, track and react to evolving incidents. The Team Awareness Kit (TAK) is a mobile situational awareness (SA) tool employed by nearly 500,000 users to coordinate and communicate in real-time with their teams. This session will introduce TAK CAD, an emerging capability that is bringing together incident management and SA capabilities under one roof, to realize dispatch operations directly within the TAK platform. TAK CAD works as a stand-alone CAD system but can also ingest data from an extensible set of existing commercial CAD solutions, allowing TAK to complement the systems that dispatch centers are already using. TAK CAD brings incident management, personnel and vehicle tasking and tracking, navigation, and a rich set of analytics for measuring operational effectiveness. In this session, walk through:
• TAK CAD's capabilities for both dispatchers and responders/defenders
• How USAF fire and emergency services will be employing this tool to better incorporate TAK and real-time situational awareness into their dispatch operations
• How TAK CAD integrates with existing commercial CAD solutions, what the roadmap looks like for future extensions, and how you can help drive that direction
• The path to get TAK CAD for civilian public safety or military use
Participants will come away from this talk with an understanding of the tool, its trajectory, and how they can use this government owned tool for free within their organizations.

Takeaway

An understanding of what TAK CAD is, and what capabilities it provides
How the USAF plans to deploy and employ TAK CAD
How TAK CAD is related / interoperable with existing CAD and alerting systems
How public safety organizations can get, use, provide feedback for, and extend TAK CAD