Boeing Corporation Selects Cougaar Software, Inc.'s ActiveEdge
Platform to Develop Intelligent Agent-Based Solutions Cougaar Software, Inc. (CSI) today announced
that Boeing Phantom Works purchased a set of licenses for CSI's
ActiveEdge platform to be used in St. Louis in the development
of several next-generation intelligent agent-based
solutions.
McLean, VA — August 21, 2007 — Cougaar
Software, Inc. (CSI), a leading provider of intelligent distributed
platform solutions for the commercial and military sectors, today
announced that Boeing Phantom
Works, Boeing's
advanced research and development unit, purchased a set of licenses
for CSI's ActiveEdge platform
to be used in St. Louis in the development of several next-generation
intelligent agent-based solutions.
Dr. Todd Carrico, President of CSI, noted that "This is
a significant milestone in bringing our intelligent solutions
technology into the mainstream applications development market.
Boeing Phantom Works, which has a reputation for excellence throughout
the aerospace industry, selected ActiveEdge after careful consideration
of their needs to meet their large-scale distributed enterprise
requirements."
Cougaar Software's ActiveEdge is
an intelligent agent-based platform for building complex, distributed,
intelligent applications. ActiveEdge offers a framework for
building intelligent applications and provides a comprehensive
tool suite for developing such applications. Based on existing
standards and open technologies like Java, SOAP, OWL, and XML,
ActiveEdge saves significant research time and development
effort as well as takes advantage of proven information management
capabilities.
ActiveEdge provides all
the power of Cougaar -- the Cognitive Agent Architecture, an
open source, distributed agent architecture -- and includes
key extensions to simplify application development, increase
agent functionality, and provide enhanced system capabilities.
ActiveEdge is designed to transform data into usable, actionable
knowledge; create an understandable, relevant, real-time picture
of your enterprise operations; and provide advanced execution
monitoring and collaborative decision support.
About Cougaar Software, Inc.:
Cougaar Software, Inc. (CSI) is a leading provider of intelligent
systems for commercial and military sectors.CSI was formed
in 2001 to transition a powerful suite of advanced technologies
from military research to the commercial market. Through this
work and subsequent military transitions, this technology has
matured and been proven in various secure, time-critical environments.
Intelligent agent applications enable secure, dynamic collaboration
over complex business processes that handle volumes of information
to levels of accuracy,timeliness, and quality never before
possible. Scalability, adaptability, flexibility, and security
have been the cornerstone concepts of our approach, bringing
our military knowledge and experience to applications thatempower
enterprises.
