Technology transfer.

Our CoABS efforts had a significant impact on our other DoD-funded research efforts, and we were able to use our results and prototypes to support that research.

As one example, our mobile-agent technology was used in an application for medical monitoring of victims on a battlefield, funded by the U.S. Army CECOM, and a related application for medical monitoring of astronauts in long-duration space flight, funded by the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts. The Grid was used to provide interoperability between D'Agents and other agent systems, and was used for the Guardian Angel system developed by Lockheed Martin. This project was led by Dr. Sue McGrath, a collaborator who learned of our technology while at Lockheed Martin ATL and then joined Dartmouth College to pursue the research here.

We were deeply involved with the CoAX TIE, an international research effort to explore the use of agent technology to support coalition forces. Bob Gray and Susan McGrath provided a version of the CECOM medical-monitoring system for use in this TIE. This system uses our Grid Mobile Agent System (GMAS) to send monitoring agents to the location(s) of injured soldiers and sailors, allowing medics from one country to efficiently monitor wounded sailors from another country. We demonstrated the final version, with a (simple) graphical user interface for the medics, as part of the final CoAX presentations in October 2002. In the CoAX presentation, the system was used to monitor the health of casualties on board an Australian ship, HMAS Coonawarra, which was damaged during a submarine attack. Representatives from the Marine Corps expressed significant interest in the system during the Tech Fair following the presentations; McGrath and Gray are following up with these representatives.

We also made several efforts to raise awareness of our results and technologies within the DoD world and the corporate world, above and beyond the impact of our publications, presentations at conferences, and presentations at university, corporate, and government labs. In particular, we sent a high-level summary of our research, with pointers to detailed results, to a hundred or so key players in the DoD world.

On many occasions we discussed transferring our technology...

• with BAE Systems (British AeroSpace) about using Dartmouth's agent and security work in their advanced communications systems.
• with the Director of Research at the FAA about transitioning some of our work to that setting.
• with Jeff Hughes of Wright Patterson AFB on a potential OSD Secure Applications Initiative.
• with the Grid Forum.⁵ Kotz participated in the first meeting of the Grid Forum, a large nationwide group that is trying to coordinate the interconnection of several metacomputing efforts, from NASA, NSF, DOE, DOD, and numerous others. Kotz was there to investigate potential technology transfer from the CoABS ``Grid'' to and from the other grid-like projects. Cybenko had earlier met with NASA Ames to discuss coordination of the CoABS Grid with NASA's Information Power Grid. Visited with Dennis Gannon and Bill Johnston about possible relationships between the two efforts.