Building Upon the Coalition Agents Experiment (CoAX): Integration of Multimedia Information in GCCS-M using IMPACT

摘要

The CoAX demonstration was an international effort, sponsored by the Defense Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Defense Science Technology Office (DSTO), Defense Scientific Technical Laboratory (DSTL), and The Technical Cooperation Program (TTCP). CoAX was a collaboration between DoD labs, industry, and academia to showcase the power of software agents to rapidly construct and maintain a coalition Command and Control Structure. The CoAX demonstration was conducted through numerous Technology Integration Experiments (TIEs). The purpose of the TIEs was to pair up participants in the demonstration such that synergistic effects of software agent technology being developed by each participant could be demonstrated. The Naval Research Laboratory and the University of Maryland participated in a TIE which demonstrated the integration of the NRL Global Command and Control System Maritime (GCCS-M) surrogate with the Interactive Maryland Platform for Agents Collaborating Together (IMPACT) system. This paper will describe the CoAX demonstration, the TIE that was conducted between NRL and UMD and future interactions that are designed to facilitate the integration of multimedia information into GCCS-M via IMPACT.