How Green Bay Tracked 240,000 People at the NFL Draft with TAK | BC Anthony Piontek, Green Bay Fire
The Team Awareness Kit (TAK) helps first responders improve situational awareness, resource tracking, and coordination during emergency incidents and large-scale events.
In this episode, Green Bay Metro Fire Battalion Chief Anthony Piontek explains how the department expanded TAK from GPS tracking on apparatus to a shared operational system used by individual responders, mutual aid partners, law enforcement, the Coast Guard, and drone teams.
During the NFL Draft, which brought approximately 240,000 people across 100 acres, TAK gave incident commanders and dispatchers a real-time view of crew and resource locations—even when dense crowds made visual tracking difficult. The system helped reduce radio traffic, improve dispatching by location, and give command staff a clearer common operating picture.
The episode also explores how Green Bay Metro Fire built and manages its own TAK server, including cybersecurity, records ownership, internal IT staffing, drone integration, training, and after-action review.
Fire and emergency service leaders will gain practical insight into how TAK can support planning, preparedness, interoperability, and real-time incident management at both routine incidents and major public events.
