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The operation of a human organization requires dozens of everyday tasks to ensure coherence in organizational activities, monitor the status of such activities, gather information relevant to the organization, keep everyone in the organization informed, and so on. Teams of software agents can aid humans in accomplishing these tasks, facilitating the organization's coherent functioning and rapid response to crises and reducing the burden on humans. These activities are often well suited for software agents, which can devote significant resources to perform these tasks, thus reducing the burden on humans. Indeed, teams of such software agents, including proxy agents that act on behalf of humans, would enable organizations to act coherently, attain their mission goals robustly, react to crises swiftly, and adapt to events dynamically. Such agent teams could assist all organizations, including the military, civilian disaster response, corporations, and universities and research institutions.