# DRONERESPONDERS and HelpNow Provide Hosted TAK Access

DRONERESPONDERS and HelpNow Project are providing members of the DRONERESPONDERS TAK Working Group access to TryTAK, a hosted Team Awareness Kit environment for training, evaluation, and multiagency coordination. The arrangement reduces the technical and infrastructure burden for volunteer and smaller public-safety drone teams. The announcement does not identify a government contract, price, solicitation, or procurement timeline.

- Public-safety agencies and response teams can use the hosted environment to evaluate TAK workflows without first establishing their own server infrastructure.
- Procurement professionals can treat this as a low-barrier evaluation pathway, not a announced contract opportunity; no formal buying process or price is stated.
- Teams that find TAK useful may assess the transition to their own server instances, which the Working Group identifies as a future option.

**Jurisdictions:** sled
**Industries:** Public Safety, Information Technology
**Topics:** Cloud Services, Digital Infrastructure
**Published:** October 30, 2026

### Vendors
- HelpNow Project (Florida Response Team Charities Inc.) (Operator of the hosted TryTAK service)

### Key Quotes
> By putting Cursor on Target technology in responders’ hands and creating a true common operating picture, we are seeing a clear shift toward integrating this technology as a standard component of modern emergency response.
> — Charles L. Werner, Director of DRONERESPONDERS

> It gives agencies a faster, lower-barrier way to begin using TAK, with a clear path to running their own server instances once they are ready.
> — Zev Nadler, Founder of the DRONERESPONDERS TAK Working Group

### Sources
- [
  DRONERESPONDERS partners with HelpNow Project to give public safety drone teams hands-on access to hosted TAK server
  
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