Interactive Maryland Platform for Agents Collaborating Together (IMPACT)

Every major national and international corporation has numerous diverse data and software sources. There is often great value to be realized when some of these data sources and some of these software modules are woven together into a collaborative team. For example, if a manufacturer can form a team involving its production planning software, its inventory and sales databases, and its budgeting software and databases, then this enables corporate decision makers to create in real time, production plans and marketing plans that maximally leverage corporate data sets and software sources. Alternatively consider the US military. If a soldier and/or his commanders had real-time support that accessed intelligence and surveillance information about the enemy, as well as information about friendly assets, together with fire support and maneuver control systems, then they would be able to make far better decisions in a very short amount of time.