The Center of Excellence (CoE) drives the evaluation and implementation of innovative technologies for public safety and aerial firefighting. We rigorously test and deploy solutions that bridge the gap between emerging capabilities and the operational needs of first responders.
COTAK (Colorado Team Awareness Kit) is a statewide program created from inital R&D work, delivering the capabilities of the Team Awareness Kit (TAK) to public safety agencies in Colorado.
Originally developed by the Department of Defense, TAK provides a powerful geospatial platform for situational awareness. COTAK adapts this technology for civilian use, offering a managed, interoperable server infrastructure that enables agencies to share real-time location data, sensor feeds, and tactical information across jurisdictional boundaries.
Our mission is to establish a unified Common Operating Picture (COP) accessible to all responders, regardless of agency size or budget.
We maintain our core tools and integrations as open-source projects to support the broader TAK community. This allows other states and organizations to leverage our work in deploying their own public safety networks.
| Product | Description |
|---|---|
| Node-CoT | GeoJSON ↔ Cursor on Target (CoT) transformation library for NodeJS. |
| Node-TAK | Library for managing TAK Server connections and data streams in NodeJS. |
| CloudTAK | Cloud-native client for ingesting geospatial data into the TAK ecosystem. |