General Dynamics Selects Cougaar Software, Inc.’s ActiveEdge Platform to Develop Intelligent Agent-Based Solutions
McLean, VA – July 15, 2005 – Cougaar Software, Inc. (CSI), a leading provider of intelligent technology solutions for the commercial and military sectors, today announced that General Dynamics, a leading provider of transformational mission solutions in command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, will be using CSI’s ActiveEdge® to develop an intelligent agent-based solution for one of their Federal clients.
General Dynamics has leading market positions in mission-critical information systems and technologies; land and expeditionary combat systems, armaments and munitions; shipbuilding and marine systems; and business aviation. General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics headquartered in Arlington, VA, is a leading provider of transformational mission solutions in command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems has years of experience supporting the Department of Defense, the intelligence community, and other government and commercial customers.
ActiveEdge provides a complete platform for building intelligent agent-based applications. It uses a distributed intelligent agent architecture that is based on the human cognitive model of reasoning and planning. This advanced software model captures the way humans observe, reason, plan, act and monitor and allows users to automate the complex processes humans do everyday most effectively. This deal solidifies CSI’s expert position as an intelligent solutions provider to major segments of the Federal civilian, defense, and intelligence communities.
“Because of the distributed, intelligent agent-based approach of ActiveEdge, you can build larger and more complex systems than are currently possible with conventional architectures,” said Dr. Todd Carrico, CEO of CSI. “As innovative market leaders like General Dynamics need to support more complex customer requirements to handle and ensure integrity of volumes of secure, mission-critical data, advanced technologies like intelligent agents become increasingly significant in the marketplace.”
About Cougaar Software’s ActiveEdge
Cougaar Software’s ActiveEdge Middleware is an intelligent agent-based middleware platform for building complex, distributed, intelligent applications. ActiveEdge offers a full 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 General Dynamics
General Dynamics, headquartered in Falls Church, VA, employs approximately 70,100 people worldwide and had 2004 revenue of $19.2 billion. The company is a market leader in mission-critical information systems and technologies, land and expeditionary combat systems, armaments and munitions; shipbuilding and marine systems; and business aviation. General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, headquartered in Arlington, Va., is a leading provider of transformational mission solutions in command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. Customers include those in the defense, intelligence, homeland security and homeland defense communities. More information is available on the Internet at www.gd-ais.com.
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 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.
