Final Packet Presented To DepSecDef

UNCLASSIFIED
INFO MEMO
30 October 2009U-429-091(b)(3):10 USC 424
FOR: l(b)(3):10 USC 424
FROM: l(b)(3):10 USC 424:(b)(6) !Defense Intelligence Agency
SUBJECT: (U) Review of Advanced Aerospace Contract Deliverables
(U) This info memo responds to your request for the l(b)(3):10 USC 424 I
(bJ(3J 1o use 424 to review the quality and value of the first-year technical reports delivered
un er t e Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications contract with
Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS), LLC, As a reminder, you
made this request to ~§(ll ]g4 ersonnel during a 15 May 2009 meeting with you
after your meeting wt ena or Harry Reid. The goal of the contract is to identify
key technologies and physics concepts that would support revolutionary aerospace
vehicle research and development. Contracted studies were designed to provide a
prioritized list of technologies/concepts that then would drive detailed, focused
searches into foreign aerospace research and development. Each research report
(in the areas of lift, propulsion, control, power generation, spatial/temporal
translation, materials, structural configuration, signature reduction, human
interface, human effects, and armament) was written by world-class technical
experts in industry and/or academia.
(U) The table in Enclosure l lists the 26 extensive technical reports delivered to
DIA in FY 2009, The report titles highlighted in red and green are the ones that
were reviewed. Eight reviews were performed by other authors listed in the table;
five were performed by outside reviewers, including three research staff members
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l(b)(3):10 use 424:(b)(6) I has reviewed all of the papers and concurs with the reviews. As the
excerpts indicate, all of the reviews were positive, some exceptionally so. Even
within the limitation of being able to conduct only unclassified research in the first
contract year, the quality hoped for in the reports was achieved. I I intends to l\~~3):10 USC
publish them in coming weeks as Defense Intelligence Studies. Some or all of
these studies may be of interest to Defense Department agencies, national
laboratories, and/or defense industries focused on blue-force capability
development, and ·ill ensure that they receive copies.
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