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AAWSAP

Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program: a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) program funded by Congress with FY2008 and FY2010 money at Senator Harry Reid's urging and carried out by BAASS, Robert Bigelow's company. Its contract (HHM402-08-C-0072, Sept 22, 2008) awarded $21,948,810 — the figure behind the '$22 million'. It produced 38 technical studies (DIRDs) on propulsion, vacuum energy, materials and antigravity: 37 were released under FOIA in 2022, and the Pentagon published them officially, with the contract paperwork, in the sixth PURSUE release (Sept 18, 2026). All of it sits complete in Nodriza's archive. The seventh release (Oct 23, 2026) added BAASS's internal paperwork: management plan, monthly reports, the Utah ranch investigation and its final self-assessment.

What is claimedFor its advocates, AAWSAP proves the U.S. government seriously studied UAP and the physics needed to explain them.

Skeptical viewThe statement of objectives is about assessing the foreign threat far into the future, the Pentagon warns the DIRDs do not validate the concepts, and AARO's report (2024) says the papers were never thoroughly peer reviewed: they are speculative reviews of future technology, not UAP evidence.

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Related: AATIP / UAPTF · BAASS · Robert Bigelow · Hal Puthoff · Eric Davis

Sources — here nothing is invented: DIA · contrato HHM402-08-C-0072 (war.gov/UFO, Release 06) · AARO Historical Record Report Vol. 1 (2024) · The Black Vault (FOIA 2019–2022)