A wildland fire burning along a dark ridge at night, its glow lighting the smoke above the treeline
Fire · EMS · Search and rescue · Emergency management

Accountability without
the roll call.

A manual PAR ties up a tactical channel and leaves incident command holding a number in their head. When every crew reports position from the phone it already carries, the last known location of everyone working the incident is on the board before anybody keys a mic.

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Accountability
Continuous position
Clients
ATAK · iTAK · TAK Aware
Doctrine
Aligned to NIMS
After-action
MARS, every plan
Where the work actually happens

Most of the ground you work at three in the morning does not have a street number on it.

Wildland, water, rural and large-site incidents have no addresses to give, and a big structure stops having useful ones the moment crews are above the second floor. Dispatch can send a unit to a place. It cannot tell you where that unit is standing twenty minutes later. That is the gap a shared map closes, and it is the same gap whether the call is a brush fire, a missing person or a warehouse.

On the radio

A manual PAR costs a channel and a minute.

A roll call is an interruption by design: everybody stops, one company at a time answers, and command writes down a number that is already going stale. Position reporting runs in the background instead, so a PAR confirms what the board is showing rather than assembling it from scratch. The report still gets made, on the same schedule and by the same person. It just is not the only place the information lives.

Mutual aid

Everybody arrives on a different system.

The second and third alarm bring departments running their own radios, their own dispatch and their own vendor. None of that has to change for them to appear on your map. TAK is an open standard, the clients are free, and a neighboring department joins your server with the phones its members are already carrying. No license to buy on their side, and nothing on yours to rip out.

Organization

Label it the way the incident is already organized.

Callsigns on the map read the way the incident already reads on the board: by Division where the assignment is geographic, by Group where it is functional. Nothing here asks incident command to learn a second structure, and nothing replaces the tactical worksheet. It puts the positions behind it.

A crew working a night burn from a hilltop, an aircraft above a lit landing pad with the fire front along the treeline beyond
One picture, whoever shows up

The map is the thing everybody can join.

Your server is yours. Members join it from ATAK on Android, iTAK on iPhone, or TAK Aware, all published free by the TAK Product Center. Fire and EMS run heavily on iPhones, and iTAK is the reason that is not a problem. Nothing about the picture depends on everyone buying the same thing.

Night operations · the ground has no addresses
What you actually run

Four parts, and no IT department.

Departments that do not have a systems administrator are the ones that need this most. So the server is managed and the clients are free, and what is left for the department to do is decide who gets on it.

After the incident

The report largely writes itself.

Position history is recorded while the incident runs, not reconstructed from memory two days later. MARS rebuilds the whole run from what the server already kept: scrub the timeline, watch where crews actually were, and take the answer out in a format the file will accept. It replays a finished incident and only a finished incident. Accountability during the call and review after it are two different jobs, and we keep them apart.

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What it costs

The price is on the website.

$162.00
Per user, per year
at 5 seats
$90.00
Per user, per year
at 50 seats
$0
Setup fee

One plan, billed by the year, with the rate per user falling as the seat count rises. A twelve-person volunteer company pays $1,404.00 a year. A hundred-seat department pays $8,880.00. Every threshold is published on the rate card, so you can size this against a line item, or against a grant application, without booking a call with anybody. MARS is included at every seat count.

Response technology is generally an eligible equipment category under AFG, and it is worth positioning as operational equipment that improves accountability rather than as a software purchase. There is no minimum department size either: the seat minimum is one, and a volunteer company of twelve runs the same server software a metro runs. Agencies handling criminal justice information can add CJIS, SOC 2 and NIST 800-53 compliance for a flat $10,800.00 per server, per year.

First Response

Know where your people are.

Managed TAK servers priced per user, per year, with the rate falling as the team grows. MARS included on every server.

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