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This Defense Intelligence Agency reference document is dated 30 March 2010. The Defense Warning Office prepared it under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program. It compares lone maverick inventors with corporate inventors who work in think tanks and other large organizations, focusing on unconventional energy and propulsion, including antigravity. It sorts inventors into five types. It concludes that formally trained mavericks (Types 3 and 4) are the most likely source of the next innovations. Untrained inventors are expected to contribute nothing substantial.
From the source: Release of 2026-09-18 Incident: 3/30/10, Las Vegas, Nevada. Released with redactions. This document is a Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIRD), a technical reference format used by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) to capture baseline knowledge on a specific topic for later analytic use. DIRDs are best understood as reference and synthesis products rather than as original research. It is one of 38 DIRDs produced under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP) between 2009 and 2011. Because AAWSAP’s scope permitted a broad range of supporting topics, not every DIRD in the series directly concerns aerospace systems or future threat assessment. The following summary reflects the DIRD’s scope and framing at the time of writing and should not be read as implying current validation of the concepts discussed. This DIRD compares lone “maverick” inventors with researchers working inside larger organizations in order to ask where major future breakthroughs are most likely to come from, especially in unconventional energy and propulsion. It concludes that the strongest candidates are technically trained, relatively independent, and flexible researchers working with some freedom from institutional constraint. Because that preferred profile closely resembles the kind of researcher who appears to have authored or shaped much of the broader AAWSAP DIRD effort, the document reflects a notable methodological circularity, validating the program’s operational model rather than neutrally assessing the innovation ecosystem.
UNCLASSIFIED/) FOR CFFIEIAL ~SE 8PU1¥ The Type 1 Inventor One should examine the area of novel energy generation inventions from the standpoint of the maverick inventor who has no formal training. Because the approach and timel ine of the typical energy inventor mimic those of the propuls ion (read "antigravity") inventor,2 we will concentrate on the energy inventor. Often the invention involves a device that is p•urported to produce more energy than it consumes. In some cases the inventor naively thinks his invention is simply creating the extra energy from nothing. More often the inventor believes his device is tapping a new energy source, such as "zero-point energy" or "magnetic energy ." He typically begins his quest by literally playing with storage batteries or pu lse-driven, simple, permanent-magnet based motors. Since the typical maverick inventor has negligible funds for research and development, cheap measuring instruments are the norm. A very cursory understanding of electrical wiring and possibly a rudimentary capability in designing solid-state circuitry seem all that are necessary from an educational standpoint. Delving into thermodynamics, proper experiment design, error analysis, or even power factor is usually seen as taking valuable time away from construction of an invention prototype. Alas, it is most often in the area of measurement that the maverick inventor solidifies his belief that he has discovered the answer to the world's energy problems. His fear of ridicule and belief that the local university or testing agency would (a) steal the invention, (b) not do a proper test because they do not believe in the underlying concept (for example, zero-point energy), or (c) are in league with big oil and will suppress the invention ensure that proper measurements are rarely performed at the important early stages of the invention's development. Fear of suppression also contributes to the typical inventor's lack of proper note taking. The test instruments used usually are not su itable for use in measuring the various electrical parameters in, for example, pulsed -motor designs. Even if more expensive oscilloscopes are purchased, their internal math functions are overrelied upon without giving a second thought to applicability, calibration, or use of proper probes within specification, among a host of bothersome details. The measurement problem is generally compounded when attempting to measure the true power or energy output of a device, especially where the output is a rotating shaft or source of heat. The modern Type 1 inventor shuns publishing in the peer-reviewed literature for obvious reasons and instead makes a YouTube video or appea rs on a TV "weird science" program or news clip to further promote this incredible invention . Up to th is point, the invention has been developed using personal or immediate family funds. Once the maverick inventor is convinced he has the ultimate solution, the next step is to raise the necessary funds to produce a larger, higher power prototype . Note the key step of independently verifying the technical validity of the device at low power is to be avoided . "Only a big power output will convince the skeptics" is the slogan at this stage. And a high-power prototype will take much longer to build, thus buying more t ime for the inventor to invent excuses for why the whole idea was unworkable in the first place . Usually the original prototype is either scrapped or robbed of components to make a new high-power device. 2 For typical examples of Inventors concentrating on gravity and propul sion means, see Reference 10, 11, 12. UNCLASSIFIED//EAR 0551Cl.t.L Wi& 8PtLY 6
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