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This All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office release makes public Department of Homeland Security records on KONA BLUE, a DHS prospective special access program that was ended on February 10, 2012. DHS declassified the records on July 18, 2023. The briefing slides and program proposal describe an Advanced Technology Threat program. It would collect reports on advanced aerospace vehicles, inventory recovered technology, gather oral histories and fund consciousness studies. The release also contains Senator Harry Reid's 2009 letter asking for a restricted SAP for AATIP and a 2010 DIA memo on the program.
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UNCLASSIFIED SECRET // HANDLE VIA SPECIAL ACCESS CHANNELS ONLY Declassified by: Richard D. McComb, DHS, Chief Security Officer, Declassified 20230718 Program History and Background of Advanced Aerospace Threat and Identification Program: (U) In May of 2008, Senators Reid, Inouye (HI), Stevens (AK) invited Program Manager with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), to meet with them to express their interests to establish a research program plan involving 'exotic sciences'. In July of 2008, LTG Maples, Director of DIA, was briefed by Senator Reid to discuss a congressional add of $10M in startup funds for FY08 for the proposed effort. A Request for Proposal was issued by DIA and a contract was awarded to Bigelow Aerospace to research advanced aerospace threats and technologies. The focus of the contracted research was within 12 aerospace related areas. Deliverables to the two year contract, with a total funding of $22M, were 38 research papers, an active, searchable database (now with greater than 100,000+ entries), and numerous investigative cases of the observed anomalies; Senator Reid had also requested that the DIA contract effort provide confirmation of observed physical and psychological phenomenon by government personnel. (U) In June 2009, Senator Reid communicated to the former Deputy Secretary of Defense, William Lynn, a request to provide Restricted SAP read-on to the DIA program aspects involving the methodologies used to identify, acquire, study, and engineer any advanced technologies associated with the program; the allocation of personnel, support, and oversight; and, engineering application. See Encl 2. Correspondence from Senator Reid to the Honorable William Lynn, Deputy Secretary of Defense, dated 24 June, 2009. (U) In a December 2009 meeting, LTG Burgess, Director of DIA and former DoD Deputy Sec. William Lynn communicated to Senator Reid that the DIA program could not be conducted by the Intelligence Community due to its potential growth. In addition, per an (undated) Info Memo, Subject: Advanced Aerospace Threat and Identification Program/U-10-2552/CE, from LTG Burgess to DoD U/S for AT&L, it was cited that the initial effort was insufficient to classify the program or establish a special access program and recommended that the program could be better suited for another agency or component. See enclosure 3, Info Memo, Subject: Advanced Aerospace Threat and Identification Program/U-10-2552/CE, from LTG Burgess to DoD U/S for AT&L. At the conclusion of the initial two year program in December 2010, the research data was put into contractor-secured storage. (84HVSACO) In April of 2011, presented a program briefing to Mr. Joel Wall, DHS S&T, Director, Special Projects Office, and Mr. Steve Cover, DHS Management Director, Special Access Programs Control Office, inviting DHS to expand the depth of research involving the analysis of the compiled data repository and on-going recording of observable anomalies reiterating Senator Reid's desire to transition the program into a special access program to enable access to data and material held by other government and industry entities. ## SECRET // HANDLE VIA SPECIAL ACCESS CHANNELS ONLY Prepared by: Joel D Wall, DHS, S&T, Special Projects Office, 23 Nov 2011 UNCLASSIFIED 003-6-0003/11 00734640064
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