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CoAX
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CoAX - Coalition Agents eXperiment
The Coalition TIE
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DARPA Briefings Quicklink
TTCP Briefings Quicklink
The CoAX Project is a Technology Integration Experiment (TIE)
conducted by a team of international participants. It is funded by
contracts or grants to individual participating organizations who have
joined together to demonstrate the potential utility of intelligent
agent technology for coalition operations. Funding is provided by
DARPA's CoABS Program,
and other national agent technology programs in Australia (DSTO), the
UK (DSTL)and the US (AFRL/Rome) The work is supported by
The Technical Cooperation Program
(TTCP).
Web site material: Austin Tate (editor), David Allsopp, Patrick
Beautement, Jeff Bradshaw and other members of the CoAX Team.
Recommended Citations
- For CoAX Binni 2000 and CoAX Binni 2001 Demonstrations:
Allsopp, D.N., Beautement, P., Bradshaw, J.M., Durfee, E.H., Kirton,
M., Knoblock, C.A., Suri, N., Tate, A. and Thompson, C.W. "Coalition
Agents Experiment: Multi-Agent Co-operation in an International
Coalition Setting", Special Issue on Knowledge Systems for Coalition
Operations (KSCO), IEEE Intelligent Systems, Vol. 17 No. 3
pp. 26-35. May/June 2002.
- For CoAX Binni 2002 Demonstration:
Allsopp, D., Beautement, P., Kirton, M., Tate, A., Bradshaw, J.M.,
Suri, N. and Burstein, M. (2003) The Coalition Agents Experiment:
Network-Enabled Coalition Operations, Special Issue on Network-enabled
Capabilities, Journal of Defence Science, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 130-141,
September 2003.
- On-line copies are available in the Documents
section.
Participants
- DARPA CoABS Program Managers: Prof. Jim Hendler and LCDR Dylan Schmorrow
- CoAX Project Director: Austin Tate
- CoAX Binni 2000 Principal Investigators: Jeff Bradshaw,
Mike Kirton and Austin Tate
- CoAX Binni 2001 Principal Investigators: Patrick Beautement,
Jeff Bradshaw, Mike Kirton and Austin Tate;
Demonstration Integration: David Allsopp
- CoAX Binni 2002 Principal Investigators: Patrick Beautement,
Jeff Bradshaw, Mark Burstein and Austin Tate
- Binni Coalition Scenario Specialists: Patrick Beautement (QinetiQ) and
Tony Rathmell (DSTL/TTCP TP9)
- CoAX Project participants are as follows (the first named in each
list is the lead contact in that organization, affiliations in
brackets are subcontractors):
- AIAI, University of Edinburgh: Austin Tate, Jeff Dalton, John Levine,
and Jussi Stader
- BBN: Mark Burstein, Brett Benyo, David Diller, Alice Mulvehill
and Ed Pattison-Gordon
- Boeing: Rob Cranfill, Mark Greaves, Heather Holmback
and Michael Kerstetter
- CMU: Joe Giampapa, Robin Glinton, Sean Owens, Martin van Velsen
and Katia Sycara
- Dartmouth College: Bob Gray, Arne Grimstrup,
George Blike, Susan McGrath and Jenny Turney
- DSTO, Australia: Dale Lambert and Steve Wark
- GITI: Ray Emami, Dennis Brake and Martha Kahn
- Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories: Martin Hofmann,
Ken Whitebread, Pete Gerken, Lori Pridmore and Chris Garrett
- NRL: ADM Lee Kollmorgen, Ranjeev Mittu, Ruth Willis, Sue Numrich,
Frank Segaria and Suleyman Guleyupoglu (ITT Industries)
- Object Services and Consulting, Inc. (OBJS): Craig Thompson,
Steve Ford and Paul Pazandak
- Potomac Institute: Lee Kollmorgen, Patrick Worcester,
Evan Rapoport (University of Virginia) and Will Sands
- QinetiQ: Mike Kirton, Patrick Beautement,
David Allsopp, Jeremy Baxter, John Carson, Graham Horn and Zoe Lock
- TTCP TP9: Tony Rathmell and Nort Fowler
- University of Maryland: V.S.Subrahmanian, Dana Nau and Robert Ross
- University of Michigan: Ed Durfee, Jeff Cox, Thom Bartold, Brad Clement
and Pradeep Pappachan
- USC/ISI: Craig Knoblock and Jean Oh
- UTexas: K. Suzanne Barber, Ryan McKay and Tom Graser
- University of West Florida, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition:
Jeff Bradshaw, Maggie Breedy, Tom Cowin, Pat Hayes, Renia Jeffers,
Matt Johnson, Shri Kulkarni, James Lott, Niranjan Suri and Andrzej Uszok
- CoAX Project Support from:
- AFRL: David Marsh, Dan Daskiewich, Joe Beasock John Crowther,
and Rick Metzger
- ARL: Philip Emmerman
- Boeing: Heather Holmback and Mike Uschold
- DRDC: Jean Berger
- DMSO: Sue Numrich
- ISX: Pete Haglich and Scott Fouse
- Mitre: David Brown
- MIT Sloan School of Management,
Center for Coordination Sciences: Mark Klein and Chris Dellarocas
- NWDC: Guy Purser, Richard Coupland, Mark Hess, Dana Mather,
and Paul Schmitt
- Schafer: Tom Martin
- Stanford University: Yoav Shoham
- USPACOM (U.S. Pacific Command) and NIMA
(National Imaging and Mapping Agency): Jens Jensen
"Buddy" Arrangements
Each participants has a buddy arrangement with one of AIAI, BBN, QinetiQ or
UWF/IHMC to facilitate integration and demonstration arrangements. The
buddy will be responsible for the following:
- Assisting the participant to identify a suitable demonstration thread for
their work.
- Assisting the participant to ensure that
their contribution is in line with the overall TIE aims and storyboard.
- Understanding how to demonstrate the participants module or contribution
for times when all participants cannot be present.
- Buddies:
- AIAI: ARL, DMSO, DRDC, ISX, Michigan, Mitre, OBJS, Potomac, Schafer, TTCP,
USPACOM
- BBN: DSTO, UMD
- QinetiQ: AFRL, DSTL, LM ATL, NRL, USC/ISI
- UWF/IHMC: Boeing, CMU, Dartmouth, DSTO, GITI, MIT, NWDC,
Stanford, UTexas
Technology Contributions
Demonstrations
Documents
- CoAX Binni Scenario Documents
24-Mar-2002 (WinZIP file containing 3 MS Word Documents - 4.8MB)
- Allsopp, D.N., Beautement, P., Bradshaw, J.M., Durfee, E.H., Kirton,
M., Knoblock, C.A., Suri, N., Tate, A. and Thompson, C.W. "Coalition
Agents Experiment: Multi-Agent Co-operation in an International
Coalition Setting", Special Issue on Knowledge Systems for Coalition
Operations (KSCO), IEEE Intelligent Systems, Vol. 17 No. 3
pp. 26-35. May/June 2002.
- Also published in a revised form in:
Allsopp, D.N., Beautement, P., Bradshaw, J.M., Durfee, E.H., Kirton,
M., Knoblock, C.A., Suri, N., Tate, A. and Thompson, C.W. "Coalition
Agents Experiment: Multi-Agent Co-operation in an International
Coalition Setting", Proceedings of the Second International Conference
on Knowledge Systems for Coalition Operations (KSCO-2002), Toulouse,
France, 23-24 April 2002.
- Allsopp, D., Beautement, P., Kirton, M., Tate, A., Bradshaw, J.M.,
Suri, N. and Burstein, M. (2003) The Coalition Agents Experiment:
Network-Enabled Coalition Operations, Special Issue on Network-enabled
Capabilities, Journal of Defence Science, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 130-141,
September 2003.
Presentations and Reports
- Coalition TIE Brief
14-Mar-2000
(MS Powerpoint Document - 2.4MB)
- Coalition TIE Brief
10-Aug-2000
(MS Powerpoint Document - 1.7MB)
- CoAX Binni 2000 Demonstration and TTCP Briefing,
Malvern, UK, 21-Sep-2000 (Report)
- 9-month Deliverables 31-Oct-2000
- DARPA Program Managers' Briefing, Malvern, UK, 30-Nov-2000 (Report)
- DARPA CoABS Science Fair, Miami, Florida,
1-Feb-2001 (Report)
- DARPA CoABS Workshop, Nashua, New Hampshire,
23-Jul-2001 (Report)
- DARPA Program Managers' Briefing, E-mail, 5-Oct-2001
- Briefing
(MS Powerpoint Document - 1.8MB) 5-Oct-2001
- CoAX Binni 2001 Demonstration and TTCP Briefing,
Malvern, UK, 24-Oct-2001 (Report)
- DARPA CoABS Workshop, Chantilly, VA,
16-Jan-2002 (Report)
- DARPA Program Managers' Briefing, E-mail, 17-Sep-2002
- Briefing
(MS Powerpoint Document - 2.2MB) 17-Sep-2002
- CoAX Binni 2002 Demonstration and DARPA/NWDC Briefing,
Naval War College, Newport, R.I, 29/30-Oct-2002
(Report)
Other Resources
- Binni - Coalition Scenario
Materials
- Guidance Documents and Resources for the Conduct of Coalition Operations.
Unrestricted openly available resources provided by Jens Jensen, USPACOM,
courtesy of the Multinational Interoperability Council (MIC) and the
Multinational Planning Augmentation Team
(try www1.apan-info.net/mpat, www.mnfsop.org, www.apan-info.net).
- The Lead Nation Concept in Coalition Operations, 20 December, 2000.
A Report to the Multinational Interoperability Council (MIC)
prepared by the Doctrine, Plans and Procedures Multinational
Interoperability Working Group.
PDF Document, 540KB.
- Coalition Building Handbook, November 15, 2001.
A Report to the Multinational Interoperability Council (MIC) prepared by
MIC EXCOM CWAN CONOPS Adjudication Committee.
PDF Document,
138KB.
- Crisis Action Planning Handbook (for Humanitarian Assitance),
Undated.
A Report to the Multinational Interoperability Council (MIC)
prepared by the Multinational Force/Combined Task Force (MNF/CTF).
PDF Document, 340KB.
- Multinational Force Standard Operating Procedures (MNF SOP).
Table of Contents
(for Working Draft April 10th, 2002, United States Pacific Command -
USPACOM).
Downloadable version: 9MB Zip File.
- See Multinational Planning
Augmentation Team for latest versions and further
guidance.
- Contact:
<mpat@mpat.org>
- Open area for working documents
- Password protected area for working documents -
password available to active CoAX participants from Austin Tate
<a.tate@ed.ac.uk>
Research Programme Relationships
Copyright
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individual contributors and organizations they belong to. Use on this
public web site for open access is approved. Other permitted use of the
materials is not implied.
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Last updated: Thu Nov 4 14:43:11 2021
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Rome Research Site,
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and Defence Science and Technology Organsation, Australia.