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ABOUT US_

Since 2010, we have been at the forefront of leveraging technology to elevate situational awareness in tactical operations. Our solutions empower users to better understand and respond to their current environment while anticipating the potential impact of emerging factors. We prioritise the development of capabilities that enhance situational awareness without imposing cognitive or operational burdens that could diminish their effectiveness.

Our systems and software are the result of decades of expertise in designing tools that amplify situational awareness. Our team has accumulated thousands of hours in training, observation, and rigorous testing across experimental, pre-deployment, and operational settings. As global leaders, we have successfully delivered cutting-edge technology in the UK, US, and worldwide.

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At Xi Systems, we specialise in developing and integrating advanced software solutions tailored for tactical users. Our expertise allows the creation, deployment, and integration of systems that significantly enhance situational awareness for dismounted operators, land and air platforms. We are globally recognised leaders in ensuring that radio networks, sensors, and computing systems work seamlessly together to achieve critical operational objectives.

As pioneers in the integration, use and enhancement of ATAK through plugins, we have been working with this revolutionary software since 2014. We have provided expert ATAK consultancy and plugin development to organisations in the UK, US, and beyond, driving innovation and operational excellence across multiple nations. We were among the first to publish openly available development guides following ATAK’s open release in 2020.

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DOOM For ATAK.
DOOM For ATAK.

The Android Team Awareness Kit (ATAK) is a powerful geospatial mapping application widely used in tactical and operational scenarios. While its core functionality revolves around shared situational awareness, the platform’s extensibility offers the potential for creative integrations, perfecting the functionality for each individual operator’s needs.

One such ambitious endeavour was refactoring the classic game Doom into an ATAK plugin, demonstrating both our technical expertise and the platform's versatility. Admittedly this started as a bit of an internal Xi Systems joke as an old reference to ‘Will it run Doom?’ along with the typical ‘How hard can it be?’.  Fortunately, id Software released the source code under the GPL-2.0 license which allowed us to start this endeavour legitimately.

ATAK Versions, Plugins and Development Rules
ATAK Versions, Plugins and Development Rules

ATAK and its plugin ecosystem has ensured that what started out as a situational awareness tool has morphed into the central pane of glass for the dismounted soldier within the tactical environment. Plugins are what allows a user to extend the ATAK core functionality to controlling UAV’s, ingesting data streams through to deploying artificial intelligence at the tactical edge...

De mystifying the TAK protocol
De mystifying the TAK protocol

Originally ATAK used Curser On Target (COT) as the protocol of choice for communications. However this has been augmented with a TAK protocol based upon the Google Protobuf serialisation protocol. This provides a more efficient transfer mechanism; through the act of serialisation with Protobuf, the message is significantly reduced in size, therefore allowing more messages to be transferred within the same network capacity...