CoAX

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CoAX - Coalition Agents Experiment AFRL Rome,
AIAI Edinburgh, Boeing, Dartmouth, DERA
Malvern, Lockheed Martin ATL, Michigan, OBJS,
USC/ISI,UWF/IHMC Support from BBN, GITI, ISX,
MITRE, MIT Sloan, Schafer, Stanford http//www.aia
i.ed.ac.uk/project/coax/

• Objectives
• Show that an Agent-based C2 framework can support
  agile and robust Coalition operations
• Show Domain Management services can structure
  agent relationships and enforce coalition
  policies
• Show Intelligent Task and Process Management can
  improve agent collaboration
• Show that the CoABS Grid can be used to rapidly
  integrate a wide variety of agents and systems

Binni

• Results
• Demonstrated proof-of-concept C2 coalition
  architecture within a realistic coalition
  scenario
• Connected disparate stand-alone military systems
  while taking coalition concerns into account
• Agent organization, behavior, security and
  resources managed by explicit coalition policy
  control
• Potential influence on other Coalition programs
  and interest from additional nations in
  participating

• Demonstrations

Oct 2000

• Information gathering for MBP
• 25 agents in 5 distinct domains
• Binni coalition storyboard

July 2001

• Planning and execution phases
• 45 agents in 7 overlapping
• domains
• Initial packaging of grid services
• Realistic Binni Storyboard

July 2002

• Dynamic event-driven workflow
• Dynamic coalition formation
• Dynamic coalition scenario
• High-level re-usable tools