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Smashing Silos to Drive TAK Innovation with Ralph Kohler

Ralph Kohler started the TAK program at AFRL in 2010 and has spent 15 years fighting to keep it open, accessible, and built for the people who actually use it. In this keynote from CivTAK 2025, Ralph breaks down where TAK for public safety stands today, what it's going to take to get it where it needs to be, and why the nonprofit structure, the funding, and the advocacy work all have to happen together. What is covered: -Why Metcalfe's Law matters for TAK and how the open-source ecosystem is creating value that no single agency could build alone -Where the TAK gaps are, from iPhone support and cross-agency federation to ease of installation and the tools states are building but can't share -What international adoption looks like and why expanding TAK beyond U.S. borders requires more than open-sourcing the code -The case for a TAKPS nonprofit structure to coordinate development, advocate for congressional support, and give the public safety community one unified voice