Canadian agencies can now run their shared TAK map on a Canadian-owned cloud under Canadian law

Police, fire, and defense teams that use the Team Awareness Kit (TAK) to track units, sensors, and drones on a shared map have typically run that map on a foreign hyperscaler, not by policy but because it was the default. Two Canadian vendors now say they have changed it.

ThinkOn, a Canadian-owned sovereign cloud provider, and AVSS, a Canadian drone-technology company, have integrated TAK with infrastructure hosted entirely in Canada. The TAK server, the common operating picture that ingests telemetry and live video from MAVLink-compatible drones and pushes them to clients like the Android Team Awareness Kit (ATAK), now sits on ThinkOn's cloud rather than on a foreign hyperscaler.

Agencies already running TAK can migrate without retraining field staff. According to the joint announcement, as reported by DroneDJ, the field workflow on ATAK and other TAK clients does not change. What shifts is the hosting layer underneath: live drone video, sensor feeds, and operational location data sit under Canadian ownership and Canadian law.

Agencies that have not yet deployed TAK can also start on sovereign Canadian infrastructure rather than inheriting a future migration. The open question is whether existing hyperscaler TAK users actually move. ThinkOn and AVSS have not named customer deployments, pricing, or performance comparisons; the announcement is a partnership and integration claim, not a measured migration.