Press Release

Cougaar Software, Inc. has been awarded a GSA Schedule 70 contract for General Purpose Commercial Information Technology Equipment, Software and Services.

McLean, VA — February 16, 2006 — Cougaar Software, Inc. has been awarded a GSA Schedule 70 contract for General Purpose Commercial Information Technology Equipment, Software and Services with specific focus on SIN 132-51 Information Technology Services.  The award of this contract is effective February 1, 2006.  The initial award is for a 5 year period through 2011, plus three five-year option periods following. 

The GSA schedule will allow government agencies easier access to the services and solutions offered by Cougaar Software Inc.  According to Dr. Todd Carrico, President/CEO of Cougaar Software, “The award of the GSA schedule is another milestone in the growth of Cougaar Software and the opportunity to offer the use and support of Open Source Cougaar and the associated COTS ActiveEdge intelligent agent platform to a wider government audience for solving their more complex distributed business problems”

About Cougaar Software, Inc.

CSI is a leading provider of intelligent systems for commercial and military sectors. ActiveEdge, our flagship product, is the first of a new generation of Cognitive Grid platforms that represent the convergence of Intelligent Agents, Grid Computing and Semantic Web technologies.  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 operational environments. We have spent the last two years developing and refining our solutions as a major framework for quickly building and deploying intelligent applications. 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 that empower enterprises. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, CSI can be found on the Web at www.cougaarsoftware.com.

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