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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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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 ====-c'cat,,,S,,ancc'd=,ia National Laboratories, The l(b)(3):1D usc 424;(b)(6) I 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. (b)(3):10 USC 424 UNCLASSIFIEI>
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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.