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The Evolution of Intelligent Systems: From DARPA's COUGAAR to CSI's ActiveEdge®

Dr. Todd Carrico, former Program Manager of the DARPA Advanced Logistics Program (ALP) and UltraLog program, founded Cougaar Software, Inc. (CSI) in 2001 with the specific intent to complete, extend, and commercialize the Cognitive Agent Architecture (COUGAAR) Open-Source technology that came from these two large programs. The company’s vision was to take COUGAAR Open Source from a TRL 5 distributed agent architecture to a TRL 9 intelligent systems solutions platform. Over the past two decades, the CSI team has developed and delivered our vision with ActiveEdge®, our commercial agent-based platform for distributed and intelligent decision support systems. In that time, the ActiveEdge® platform has evolved into a robust autonomy architecture for everything from autonomy in motion (robotics) to autonomy at rest (decision support applications) and everything in between. The platform has proven to support the entire solutions development life cycle, thus empowering developers to develop and deploy intelligent applications and enhance legacy applications with a thin layer of intelligence.

Today, CSI’s solutions represent some of the most advanced Agentic AI capabilities available and have proven themselves in a number of application domains. At CSI, we are excited about the world-changing potential of AI, and the power of Human-Collaborative AI (H-CAI) Decision Support, and we stand ready to help you and your organization leverage this potential.

History

2018

August 15

Successful Completion of Army TA4C Demonstration

CSI successfully completed a TA4C demonstration of its CADES capability.

2017

September 27

Successful Completion of United States Army Europe (USAREUR) Field Demonstration

CSI successfully completed a United States Army Europe (USAREUR) operational field demonstration of it Distribution and Retrograde Adaptive Planning and Execution (APEX) Management (DRAM) capability. In parallel to the Reception, Staging and Onward Movement (RSOM) of the 2nd Brigade of the 1st Infantry Division, a team of researchers composed of…

September 22

Successful Completion of Phase 1 Experimentation and Demonstration of Automated Supply Point – Scalable (Asp-S)

CSI successfully completes Phase I experimentation & demonstration of ASP, which featured CSI’s Cognitive Automated Supply Point Enhanced Robotics (CASPER) and Configured Load Building Tool (CLBT) prototypes.

May 1

Team COUGAAR Enters $5M IBM Watson AI XPrize

CSI successfully completed a TA4C demonstration of its CADES capability.

March 1

CSI Becomes Gold Member of Cognitive World

January 9

CSI Receives Special Thanks from NATO Supreme Allied Commander Transformation

2016

December 1

Part of Award of $461M Ceiling IDIQ Prime Contract

November 1

COUGAAR’s Agent Technology chosen for Intelligent Supervisory Control of Automation at Army Supply Points

May 2

Awarded first OTA Contract with National Advanced Mobility Consortium (NAMC)

2001

September 4

Cougaar Software, Inc. Created

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