Agent-based Commanders Portal Technology

The Agent-based Commander's Portal Technology (CPT) concept is to provide an environment for the operational commander or action officer to manage their activities and mission information while maintaining a shared situational understanding. This is achieved by building application components on top of an agent-based workspace technology actively under development by Cougaar Software. This technology is based on the Cognitive Agent Architecture (Cougaar), the result of a $100M DARPA program. The core concept of CPT is to have panel agents behind each application component, and another agent responsible for the overall task-oriented application. These application agents coordinate over shared workflows and shared representations of the relevant situation. Other agents are responsible for interfacing with external data sources and collaborating with other agent-based interface environments. Together, all the agent environments share and maintain a common operational picture, even though each agent community supporting an operator's interface environment is only responsible for pieces of the larger situation. An Agent-based Commander's Portal would provide the commander or operator with dynamic information management, task-centric information display, intelligent automation, workflow-based collaboration and innovative agent-based application components.