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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//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WASHINGTON, D.C. 20340-5100 DEC 01 201 DEC 01 2010 # INFO MEMO U-10-2552/CE FOR: UNDER SECRETARY OF DEFENSE FOR ACQUISITION, TECHNOLOGY, AND LOGISTICS FROM: Ronald L. Burgess, Jr., Lieutenant General, USA, Director, Defense Intelligence Agency SUBJECT: (U) Advanced Aerospace Threat and Identification Program (U/FOUO) The Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program was first sponsored in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2008 Defense Supplemental Appropriation Act by Senators Reid and Inouye with a $10 million add. The purpose of this congressional add was to investigate foreign advanced aerospace weapon threats from the present out to the next 40 years and to build an infrastructure to house a center of expertise on advanced aerospace technologies. The potential threat posed by unconventional or "leap" aerospace vehicles that could pose national security implications for the United States was a specific area of interest. (U//FOUO) The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) published a request for proposal (RFP). The RFP identified twelve technical areas to be studied: lift, propulsion; control; armament; signatures reduction; materials; configuration; power generation; temporal translation; human effects; human interface; and technology integration. DIA awarded a contract to the Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies LLC (BAASS), the only bid, headquartered in North Las Vegas, Nevada. (U//fOuO) BAASS identified and worked with academics and scientists to produce 26 technical reports by June, 2009. All of these reports were delivered to DIA by September, 2009. A list of these first 26 technical reports is enclosure 1. One of the 26 reports, titled Advanced Space Propulsion Based on Vacuum (Spacetime Metric) Engineering was published in March, 2010. It is included as enclosure 2 and is provided as an example of reports. (U) The FY 2010 Defense Appropriations Act included a $12 million add for the project. Twelve additional reports were produced and delivered. They are also included in enclosure 1. ## UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
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