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This Defense Intelligence Agency release is a packet prepared for the Deputy Secretary of Defense before a November 17, 2009 meeting with Senator Harry Reid. It contains a memo from Under Secretary James R. Clapper Jr., talking points, and Reid's June 24, 2009 letter asking for restricted Special Access Program protection for the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Application Program, which Reid called AATIP. It also includes DIA reviews of 26 Bigelow Aerospace technical reports. DIA and Clapper found no justification for a Special Access Program.
INTELLIGENCE UNDER SECRETARY OF DEFENSE 5000 DEFENSE PENTAGON WASHINGTON, DC 20301-5000 MEMORANDUM FOR THE DEPUTY SECRETARY OF DEFENSE SUBJECT: Senator Harry Reid's Request to Put the Advanced Aerospace Threat and Identification Program (AAITP) under Special Access Protection Senator Harry Reid sent a letter to you on June 24, 2009 requesting the Department of Defense put the AAITP under 'Restricted Special Access Protection'(Tab A). The AAITP that SEN Reid refers to is officially the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Application Program (AAWSAP) contract managed by DIA. Its primary purpose is to investigate revolutionary advances in future aerospace technologies with emphasis on research of unconventional and revolutionary technologies. The sole bid for the contract was from Bigelow Aerospace Advance Space Studies located in Las Vegas, NV. The resulting contract was for multiple sub-contractors to perform unclassified research in 11 technical areas and deliver technical re orts on those areas b Jul 31 2009. (b)(3):10 USC 424;(b)(6) In late October 2009, DIA completed the technical review of the program deliverables (Tab B) and provided USD(I) SAPCO the current status of the AA WSAP. The program manager and his leadership advised that they saw no justification for Special Access protections based on the content of the FY09 deliverables or the anticipated FYl0 work. This recommendation is fonmall stated and outlined in the attached memorandum from (b)(3): 1D usc 424 :(c)(6l (Tab CJ. Senators Reid and Inouye co-sponsored a $1 OM earmark in the July 2008 supplemental to fund this DIA effort to look at potential future aerospace weapons threats. A $ l 2M earmark has been allocated to support the program in FY20 I 0. Based on the recommendation from DIA and my staffs review of the technical reports, I recommend against establishing a Special Access Program at this time. James R. Clapper Jr. Attachments: As stated
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FOIA release, from the dia collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 18 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.