What is the history of Cougaar?
Cougaar started in 1996 as ALP, “The Advanced Logistics Project,” which was a DARPA funded project to model military logistics using distributed agent technologies. BBN was the primary contractor and continues as a key Cougaar developer. In 2001 ALP transitioned to a new DARPA project, Ultra*Log, to enhance the scalability, security, and survivability of the underlying agent system. Cougaar was the underlying architecture of Ultra*Log and contains most of the logistics domain code. Ultra*Log concluded at the end of 2004, at which time Cougaar became a purely open source project, though it may continue under one or more defense-sponsored projects. The open source community has adopted Cougaar in non-military applications ranging from embedded sensor webs to business intelligence applications. Some uses were presented at Open Cougaar 2004.
