United States2008–2010ClosedPublic access
AAWSAP (Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program)
Defense Intelligence Agency
A contract, not an investigating office. The statement of objectives of 18 July 2008, which names the DIA’s Acquisition Support Division in its background section, sets the goal: “to understand the physics and engineering” of breakthrough aerospace applications “as they apply to the foreign threat out to the far term, i.e., from now through the year 2050”, in twelve technical areas from lift and propulsion to “spatial/temporal translation” and “human effects”, with work classified up to TS/SCI. The solicitation went out on 1 September 2008 as an unrestricted request for proposals with offers due on 10 September; on 22 September 2008 the award went to Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies of Las Vegas, firm fixed price, a base year whose six line items add up to $10,000,000 (our sum) and four option years anticipated. Modification P00001 (September 2009) exercised the first option “subject to availability of funds”, with line items adding up to $25,000,000 (our sum), and contradicts itself on dates: its text moves the option year to 1 October 2009 – 30 September 2010, its own schedule gives 22 September 2009 – 21 September 2010. P00002 (February 2010) funded the option at $11,948,810 and called for the impacts and technical risks of the “reduced funding”; P00003 changed the contracting officer’s representative; P00005 extended the period to 21 December 2010 with no new money. Clause 52.227-17 gives the government unlimited rights in all data produced under the contract and bars the contractor from publishing any of it without the contracting officer’s written permission. Read the published order with care: it is a conformed copy, not the 2008 document. It already carries the total of $21,948,810, the option-year lines as rewritten by P00002, ending on 21 December 2010 as set by P00005, and a form footer dated 2012. Not released: the BAASS proposal the order incorporates by reference, the P00002 attachment on the impact of the cut, the text of P00004 (only its distribution sheet is out), and anything after 21 December 2010. None of the seven contract documents uses the words UFO, UAP, unidentified, anomalous or paranormal. The contract documents and 37 DIRDs are public in PURSUE release 06 (18 September 2026).