Situational Awareness
Safety
Team Coordination
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COTAK USERS
Users include law enforcement, firefighters, search and rescue, and other public safety agencies.
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ACTIVE AGENCIES
COTAK serves public safety agencies of varying sizes based in Colorado.
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COTAK CHANNELS
Channels are used to customize the information needs of agencies displayed on the COTAK application.
Real-Time Location Information at Your Fingertips
The Colorado Team Awareness Kit (COTAK) is a real-time location service available to all Colorado public safety agencies. By using COTAK, emergency responders can significantly enhance their situational awareness, safety, and team coordination.
Using dots on a map, COTAK users can locate themselves, their team members, and other enrolled agency personnel in real-time. In addition, COTAK provides advanced features that can be customized to meet the specific needs of fire, law enforcement, search and rescue, and other public safety agencies.
COTAK is available free of charge to all Colorado public safety agencies. Join us in deploying the future of public safety, and sign up for COTAK now.
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COTAK News
Save the Date: Something New Is Coming to the 2027 COTAK Summit
The COTAK Program Team is excited to announce that the 2027 COTAK Summit will take place May 25–27, 2027, at the Grand Hyatt Vail Resort & Spa in Vail, Colorado!
Response to PHP2Shell Vulnerability
On October 21, 2026, the PHP project publicly disclosed a pair of vulnerabilities collectively known as “PHP2Shell” (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) and released patched versions of PHP that fix them.
Introducing the Self Serve Channels Tool
Recently, we received several requests for data integrations into COTAK that may be of interest to our user community, but are outside the scope of our main channel plan. These integrations include the locations of all aircraft (civilian and public safety) operating over Colorado, USGS Stream Gauge locations and their status, and more.
Typically COTAK users are assigned their channels (and any data integrations tied to those channels) by you, the agency administrator, or by the COTAK program team for mutual aid and interoperability. Now to accommodate these new integrations we have developed a new tool at cotak.gov called “Self Serve Channels.” Any COTAK user can log into cotak.gov, and on the homepage use the Self Serve Channels widget to join or leave channels. Any changes a user makes will be reflected in their channels list on their TAK apps.
These self serve channels will always be ‘read-only’ and will not share your location with other users when turned on, and will always tie to a data feed or integration of some kind. The COTAK program team will add more of these channels as requests for data integrations come in from our users involving open, statewide, data that may be of use to COTAK users who wish to gain additional information. To request integrations with COTAK file a ticket at cotak.gov/support
