1 open cougaar 2004 dr. mark greaves darpa / ixo
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Open Cougaar 2004
Dr. Mark GreavesDARPA / IXO
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In the Beginning…
DARPA Programs begin with a capability and an idea
The Advanced Logistics Project– Goal: to develop a new capability in Total Management of the Logistics
Pipeline• Logistics Pipeline includes demand generation, ordering, supply management,
sourcing, distribution, maintenance, transportation, and personnel. • Total Management includes the coordinated planning, execution, monitoring,
assessment and replanning – Metric: Creation of a TPFDD for an SSC in < 1 hour– Technology Idea: Software Agents
In 1997, software agents were a risky and radical technology– AA #1 had just happened (~150 people)– FIPA had proposed FIPA97, though there were no implementations yet– No existing agent framework had the range, scale, or scope to address the ALP
challenge
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Sources of Cougaar
BlackJackDELTA
Service Discovery
Advanced Logistics Project
UltraLog Program
Open SourceContributors
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Cougaar in 2004
Core Support Group
1-AD-DIV
Unit of Action
UA-2-CA-BNUA-1-CA-BN UA-3-CA-BN
1-ADBDEs
NCA
Theater Support
1,198 Functional Agents The foundation of most complex distributed agent-based application ever built
– Over 1,000 agents representing operational and logistics units
– 1-AD, FCS Unit of Action, Theater and Corps Support, CONUS supply and distribution
• Vehicle-level fidelity in 1-UA• BN-level fidelity in 1-AD
– Southwest Asia and Azerbaijan scenarios– 180 day plan with deployment, PREPO, ops– 10-15 minute TPFDD times
Continuous performance over a range of computer and network stresses
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Declaring Victory
DARPA has been successful with its investment– We have demonstrated that total management of the military logistics pipeline
is technologically achievable– We have demonstrated that large-scale, industrial-strength agent systems
are possible– We have demonstrated that software agent societies can survive in an
environment of constant faults, failures, and cyber attacks– We have demonstrated that agent technology is a reasonable and rational
choice for developing complex policy-guided P2P systems
The increasing maturity of Cougaar is the evidence that software agents no longer exhibit the degree of risk that is necessary for DARPA investment
DARPA will start winding down its explicit support for Cougaar– 1 or 2 more open source releases
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Whither Cougaar?
Cougaar artifacts– A mature component-based agent framework
specialized for large-scale complex planning and execution tasks in dynamic environments
– Embedded information assurance and fault tolerance technologies
– Designed to withstand simultaneous cyber and kinetic attack with controlled performance degradation
– Incredible development and testing framework– Documentation, technical papers, training
materials, sample programs– Clean IP status
A community of Cougaar-literate developers, designers, and managers
A track record of success and a rising amount of interest
We appear to bearound here
Meaningless Number
Cougaar Adoption
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Open Cougaar 2004
OpenCougaar 2004 starts the transition from a centrally planned R&D program with unified metrics to a distributed P2P project with differing requirements
Where do we go next?
Logistics Applicatio
ns
Individual Cougaar
Components
P2P and Complex Adaptive Systems
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Open Cougaar Goals
Exchange techniques for building Cougaar-based multiagent systems– Presentations and Panels– Demonstrations of Cougaar applications and tools
Plan how the Cougaar architecture should evolve and be governed– Coordination and control mechanisms for the open source base– Cougaar extensions, technical roadmaps, things left undone
Discover new colleagues and new synergies– The initial Cougaar community is largely here– What new projects and revolutionary ideas are there?
DARPA is an Observer – This is YOUR Conference
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A Personal Note
Cougaar is the child of many of us in this room… and that child is growing up and leaving to make her own way in the world
Cougaar has many parents– Government side, SETA side, consultants…
All the contractors who did the REAL work in creatingCougaar and making it what it is today
WOW!!!
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