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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.
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numbers in the thousands. As many recent US Academy ofSciences and other
scholarly studies have shown, few persons in the decision-making areas of the
government have sufficient background in BioMEMS from which to make
intelligent decisions. As key customers of this study, the sponsors are well-served
withl(b)(6) Isurvey. Throughout the Survey, the author often introduces
ancillary technologies that will enable further BioMEMS development, solve
problems, or lead to alternative technologies. The survey is made more useful to
the reader and the sponsor because of this.
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Metallic Spintronics
l(b)(5) ~aper is concerned with an emerging technology known as
spintronics ("spin-based electronics"). In this technology information is carried
by moving or alterin the s in o electrons, rather than b movin the char ed
articles themselves. (b)(6)
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journals, and has won NSF grants to pursue the topic. As a result one must regard
him as an expert in the subject and take his opinio.ns seriously. In addition, the
paper cites 97 references, which is quite a lot/or a 10,000 word paper. Clearly,
l(b)(6 lis giving an overview ofthe entire field rather than just supplying an
incremental addition to it.
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Materia]s for Advanced Aerospace Platforms
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The position l(b)(6) l,akes at the first instant is that previous design
methodologies have largely failed, because of a lack of appreciation of material
property life cycles, which are clearly now known to be very different. lf one is to
examine, for example, in an attempt to reverse engineer materials and components
possibly of interest, one might want to approach the "reverse" paradigm from first
principles of materials in contexts of observed performance, l(b)(6) lat the
beginning of the study subtly suggests that observed performance ... or even
claimed performance ... may be a better starting point.
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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.