  AGILE is an innovative, cost-effective gamma-ray mission proposed to the ASI
Program of Small Scientific Missions.
  It is planned to detect gamma-rays in the 30 MeV - 50 GeV energy band and
operate as an {\bf Observatory} open to the international community. Primary
scientific goals include the study of AGNs, gamma-ray bursts, Galactic sources,
unidentified gamma-ray sources, solar flares, and diffuse gamma-ray emission.
AGILE is planned to be operational during the year 2001 for a 3-year mission.
It will ideally `fill the gap' between EGRET and GLAST, and support
ground-based multiwavelength studies of high-energy sources.
