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Agent Applications in Defense Logistics

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During World War II, US Military logistics was the envy of the world. By Desert Storm / Desert Shield, overwhelming mass had become the supply strategy of the day. In the years following Desert Storm, the military set out to reinvent its logistics strategy through Focused Logistics and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) was charged with developing the next generation information technology to make it a reality. This chapter reviews the vision, concepts and technologies of DARPAs Advanced Logistics Project (ALP) and UltraLog Project as well as the development, experimentation, demonstration, transition and eventual commercialization of the Cognitive Agent Architecture (Cougaar).

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References

  1. Joint Visions 2020, JCS, http://www.dtic.mil/jv2020/jvpub2.htm

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  2. Gen. H. H. Shelton, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, “Focused Logistics and the way ahead,” Jan, 1999, http://www.dla.mil/Dimensions/janfeb99/Shelton.htm

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  5. UltraLog security services project site, http://securitycore.cougaar.org/

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  1. Cougaar Software, Inc., USA

    Todd Carrico (President / CTO)

  2. Vulcan Inc., USA

    Mark Greaves (Program Manager)

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  1. Department of Cybernetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University, Technicka 2, CZ 166 27, Prague 6, Czech Republic

    Michal Pěchouček

  2. Research and Venturing, BT. Labs, PP12, MLB1, Adastral Park, Suffolk, IP45AF, UK

    Simon G. Thompson

  3. Faculty for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Applied Sciences Ravensburg-Weingarten, P.O. Box 1261, D-88214, Weingarten, Germany

    Holger Voos

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Carrico, T., Greaves, M. (2007). Agent Applications in Defense Logistics. In: Pěchouček, M., Thompson, S.G., Voos, H. (eds) Defence Industry Applications of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies and Autonomic Computing. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8571-2_4

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