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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) KONA BLUE Information Release
All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office · 56 pages · text by GLM-OCR
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.
“The Advance”28 pages
- p. 3 …and analyze sensitive information, advanced materials and technologies to increase the basic knowledge of potential emerging…
- p. 5 …the Data Collection and Analysis Center, the Advanced Technology Center, the Consciousness Center, and the Technology…
- p. 7 …TS//KB//NF) Due to the advanced nature of the research in this project and security…
- p. 8 ## Advanced Technology Threat
## 7. (U) What is the history of this project?
(TS//KB//NF) Advanced…
- p. 9 # (U) Advanced Technology Threat
(S//KB//NF) The technical/scientific approach consists of four research centers…
- p. 10 …in order to determine the activity and purpose of the advanced technology, especially any threat posed…
- p. 17 …Program Description (Key program objectives/milestones)
## The Advanced Technology Threat Program will consist of seven operational…
- p. 18 …of the Data Collection Center
- Continue to maintain the world's largest libraries on advanced aerospace…
- p. 19 …The structure consists of two primary components, or Centers:
(1) an Advanced Technology Center that addresses…
- p. 20 …Data Collection Center
- Develop Internet-based site(s) for advanced aerospace vehicle (AAV) reporting.
- Expand the…
- p. 21 …This will increase data collection coverage of these events in the United States.
- Expand liaison center…
- p. 22 …Advanced Technology Center
The mission of the Advanced Technology Center is to establish a comprehensive program…
- p. 24 …on identification of possible advanced technological processes being exploited, experts with the relevant expertise will be…
- p. 25 …The oral history project will include gathering all information pertaining to the location of advanced aerospace…
- p. 26 …of the detection and registration of anomalous as well as mundane signals -thus the use of…
- p. 28 …for supplementing efforts within the Data Collection, Advanced Technology, and, especially, the Experimental and Medical Centers…
- p. 29 …medical effects of advanced aerospace vehicles (AAVs) within the United States. The database will have pattern…
- p. 30 …The database will have advanced pattern analysis and correlative capabilities.
Deliverables:
(1) The databases.
(2) Utilizing…
- p. 31 …Collection Center performance.
- The Education Center could also provide supplemental training for the conducting of collection…
- p. 36 …The purpose of KONA BLUE is to investigate, identify and analyze sensitive advanced materials and technologies…
- p. 41 …To investigate, identify and potentially exploit sensitive advanced aerospace-related technology and to prevent disclosure of…
- p. 43 …Aerospace to research advanced aerospace threats and technologies. The focus of the contracted research was within…
- p. 46 …The focus of the contracted research, named the Advanced Aerospace Threat and Identification (AATI) Program, was…
- p. 47 …with the AATI program information concerning the opportunity to investigate, identify and analyze sensitive advanced materials…
- p. 51 …These individuals must be specialized in the areas of advanced sciences, sensors, intelligence/counterintelligence, and advanced…
- p. 53 …the U.S. to maintain its preeminence as a world leader.
Thank you in advance from…
- p. 54 …Senate)
FY10 Preliminary Bigoted List of Contractor Personnel funded under the AATIP:
This document contains information…
- p. 55 …The purpose of this congressional add was to investigate foreign advanced aerospace weapon threats from the…
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## 5. (U) What are the next steps?
(TS//KB//NF) This focused research provides an immense opportunity of discovery and validations that are the basis for further community of interest proof-of-principal and proof-of-concept efforts that will determine the strategies for adaptation, countermeasures, and mitigation through applied research initiatives. Follow-on efforts allow for the identification and resource planning and execution for immediate, near-term and far-term technology solutions to monitor and manage risk, for border and security operations and infrastructure protection, exploitation of new techniques and analytical tools also enhance continued research opportunities.
(TS//KB//NF) Due to the advanced nature of the research in this project and security considerations, no defined applied research efforts to this program are specifically identified at this time. However, the research results of this project should be readily used by the Department in the future. There are no known transition concerns at this time.
## 6. (U) Are there collaborators or partners involved in this project?
(U//HVSACO) No, not at project inception. There is limited collaboration with the USG and interagency involvement is anticipated.
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