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Final Packet Presented To DepSecDef

Defense Intelligence Agency · 18 pages · text from the file's own layer

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.

  • p. 2 …A $!2M earmark has been allocated to support the project in FY2010. • August 2008: DIA learned…
  • p. 4 …Since the Advanced Aerospace Threat and Identification Program (MITP) and study were first commissioned, much piogress…
  • p. 16 …Based on classification levels of current and projected program deliverables, there are insufficient grounds to classify…
UNCLASSIFIED
(U) Based on draft budget guidance, Congress apparently will fund the contract's
option year one at $12 million. In FY 2010, D will use the 26 FY 2009 l(b)(3):10 USC 424
technical reports in having BAASS evaluate potential adversary exploitation
worldwide, select studies amenable to classified experimental verification by
BAASS, and have BAASS conduct new classified and unclassified studies with
select academic and industry partners. Deliverables are expected in late summer
2010.
2 enclosures as stated
(U) Prepared by: l(b)(3):10 USC 424:(b)(6)
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UNCLASSIFIED

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