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
Registration Open for 2026 COTAK Summit
Registration Open
Registration for the 2026 COTAK Summit at the Copper Mountain Conference Center is now open! To register, visit cotak.gov/summit and click the “Registration” link. The cost to attend the Summit is $250 and includes breakfast and lunch during the main Summit (July 8-9), and access to the discounted hotel room block, which will be provided after registration. Space is limited and we expect the Summit to sell out, so be sure to register early!
Pre-Summit Workshops
We’re also excited to offer optional pre-Summit workshops for iOS and Android users the afternoon of July 7. These are intended to provide basic training for new COTAK users on the operation of the apps, and are complementary with your Summit registration. The main Summit will take place July 8–9 and will feature a mix of keynote sessions, operational and technical presentations, and advanced training opportunities, including focused sessions on CloudTAK and agency administrative features.
COTAK Celebrates 5000 Users
On January 20, 2026, the COTAK program reached the milestone of 5,000 registered users! Our team greatly appreciates participating public safety agencies in Colorado for trusting us ‘when where matters.’ We are looking to growing the program further and adding exciting new features in the coming months!
ATAK Indoor Location Enhancements
The Android version of TAK (ATAK) has been updated to version 5.6 in the Play Store. As part of this update ATAK now has the ability to use Google’s location services to locate you, in addition to the device’s internal GPS chip. Activating this feature will improve ATAK’s ability to locate you inside buildings or dense urban areas where GPS signals are degraded. Note that iTAK has an equivalent capability enabled by default, so iTAK users do not need to take any action!
Due to ATAK’s extensive use in the military this feature is not enabled by default. To turn it on users should open ATAK, then tap on the three stacked lines in the top right corner of the app to open the tool list, then tap on “Overlays.” In the Overlay Manager that appears scroll toward the bottom of the list and tap on the “Location Input Manager.”
In this new tool is a list of the possible sources of location data for ATAK. The “WiFi/Cell Signal Derived (NETD)” option is new, and may be checked on to improve ATAK’s location accuracy, as it uses Google’s location services to improve your positioning similar to many other smartphone apps.
Users should leave the “Internal GNSS/GPS Receiver” option checked as well, as this allows the app to use both types of technologies to locate you as accurately as possible. When these settings are applied and GPS is lost, ATAK will begin relying on the network signal to locate you, and a special message will appear in the bottom left corner of the app (see attached screenshot). Note that the bottom options in this tool refer to military GPS units and may be left unchecked.
