THE DOCUMENTS
DOW-UAP-D110, “AAWSAP Statement of Objectives July 18 2008”; DOW-UAP-D111, “AAWSAP Solicitation and Original Order September 22 2008”; DOW-UAP-D112, “AAWSAP Contract Modification P00001 September 2 2009”; DOW-UAP-D113, “AAWSAP Contract Modification P00002 February 2 2010”; DOW-UAP-D114, “AAWSAP Contract Modification P00003 May 18 2010”; DOW-UAP-D115, “AAWSAP Contract Modification P00004 May 18 2010”; and DOW-UAP-D116, “AAWSAP Contract Modification P00005 September 28 2010”: seven Department of War records from the U.S. Department of War’s PURSUE Release 06, published at war.gov/ufo on 18 September 2026. The titles are the release’s, taken from the file names. The documents’ own headings are a typed title on DOW-UAP-D110, STATEMENT OF OBJECTIVES FOR THE ADVANCED AEROSPACE WEAPON SYSTEM APPLICATIONS PROGRAM, and printed form titles on the rest: Standard Form 1449, SOLICITATION/CONTRACT/ORDER FOR COMMERCIAL ITEMS, on DOW-UAP-D111; Standard Form 30, AMENDMENT OF SOLICITATION/MODIFICATION OF CONTRACT, on four of the five modification records; and CONTRACT DIRIBUTION LIST, as the form spells it, on a routing sheet that is all of DOW-UAP-D115. The seven run to 81 pages: 4, 59, 4, 5, 3, 1 and 5. DOW-UAP-D110 is an unsigned typescript; DOW-UAP-D111 is a two-page form, three schedule sheets, a two-page table of contents and 52 pages of printed acquisition clauses; the four modification forms are filed with some mix of schedule sheets, an attachment page, a second copy of a form, distribution lists and system cover pages. The dated papers run from 18 July 2008 to 29 September 2010. No page carries a marking above Unclassified, which the modification schedule sheets and two system cover pages print, and none carries a declassification stamp. Withheld material sits in white boxes carrying the code (b)(3):10 USC 424, (b)(6), under the code (b)(3):26 U.S.C. §§ 6103, 6105 on DOW-UAP-D111 p. 1, in a few black bars, and under two labels the release prints in place of names, AAP Person 1 and AAP Person 4.
Why this one is worth your time
These seven records are the procurement paper behind the programme name the release puts at the head of their file names and of the file names of 37 technical papers it files after them. They show what the government asked a contractor to study, what the contract priced, and what the modifications did to it between September 2009 and September 2010.
They also show where the release’s labels and the pages part company: on the programme name, on the record released as the original order, on the record released as modification P00004, and on the papers, which nothing in the seven names, lists or counts.
What the documents say
What was asked for. D110 is dated 18 July 2008 and carries no signature, letterhead, addressee or contract number; its procurement number field reads PAN: # with nothing filled in (p. 1). Its background section names the Acquisition Support Division (DWO-3) of the Defense Intelligence Agency as responsible for guidance and oversight of Department of Defense acquisition and for projections of the future threat environment. Its objective is to understand the physics and engineering of advanced aerospace weapon system applications as they apply to the foreign threat out to the far term, through the year 2050, with the focus on breakthrough technologies and not on extrapolations of current aerospace technology (p. 1). Section 3.a lists twelve technical study areas: lift; propulsion; control; power generation; spatial/temporal translation; materials; configuration, structure; signature reduction (optical, infrared, radiofrequency, acoustic); human interface; human effects; armament (RF and DEW); and other peripheral areas in support of the first eleven (p. 1).
The statement expects numerous experts with at least ten years in breakthrough aerospace research, requires a PhD on each analytical team, and asks offerors for examples of prime-contractor work within the past seven years on high performance aircraft and/or satellites (p. 2). The work is to be done at the contractor’s facility, and its requirements may be based on material classified at or below Top Secret with SCI access (p. 2). The deliverables are monthly status reports; for each technical area, a management plan at the 60 day point and a research report and briefing by the end of the tenth month; and a final Integrated Threat Assessment at the end of the period of performance. Reports and presentations must be in a format suitable for dissemination at the highest levels of the federal government (pp. 2 to 4). The term was anticipated to be five years, a base year and four option years, firm fixed priced (p. 4). Section 14 gives a line each to the Contracting Officer and to the COR and Government Project Leader, both names boxed out; it is on the page image and missing from the text layer (p. 4).
What the contract says. D111 is contract HHM402-08-C-0072 on Standard Form 1449, awarded and effective 22 September 2008 on solicitation HHM402-08-R-0211, issued 1 September 2008 with offers due 10 September (p. 1). The issuing office is the Virginia Contracting Activity at Bolling AFB. The contractor is Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies, LLC in block 17a and Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies, Inc (BAASS) in the schedule, where its proposal dated 9/3/2008 is incorporated by reference; payment is by the NSA Finance and Accounting Office (pp. 1, 3). The type is firm fixed price, and block 26 prints a total award amount of $21,948,810.00 (pp. 1, 3).
The schedule prices a base year of six line items, each running 09/22/2008 to 09/21/2009: monthly status reports; a project management plan and a research report for Tasks 3.a.1 to 3.a.12, each of the three marked Quantity 12; a Comprehensive Integrated Threat Assessment; travel; and other direct costs (pp. 3 to 4). The six amounts add to $10,000,000.00; the page prints no subtotal, and the sum is this briefing’s arithmetic. The option year holds nine line items whose amounts add, again on this briefing’s arithmetic, to $11,948,810.00, and the two sums together equal the printed $21,948,810.00 (pp. 3 to 5). Of the 52 pages of clause text, Section B holds one clause, Rights in Data, Special Works, which gives the Government unlimited rights in all data delivered or first produced under the contract, except as its copyright paragraph provides, and bars the contractor, unless the contract provides otherwise, from using, releasing or publishing data first produced under it without the Contracting Officer’s written permission (p. 13).
What this print of the contract shows. The foot of pp. 1 and 2 reads STANDARD FORM 1449 (REV. 2/2012). The option-year line items carry the prices, and the line items 1007 to 1009, that modification P00002 of February 2010 sets out, with periods of performance to 12/21/2010, the date modification P00005 of September 2010 sets (pp. 4 to 5; D113 pp. 4 to 5; D116 p. 1). Block 26’s total is the total obligated amount P00002 states. The contractor’s signature, name and date blocks are empty, and so is the contracting officer’s signature line; the contracting officer’s name is boxed out, and the date signed reads SEP 22, 2008 (p. 1). The option-year heading still reads 22 September 2009 to 21 September 2010 above line items that run to 12/21/2010 (p. 4). That this is a later print of the contract with the modifications already applied, and not the order as signed in 2008, is an inference from those features; no page says how or when it was printed.
Five modifications. P00001 (D112), effective 2 September 2009, extends the current period of performance to 30 September 2009, moves the option year to 1 October 2009 to 30 September 2010, and exercises Option year I subject to the availability of funds, citing FAR 52.232-18; its authority is FAR 52.217-9, and block 12 reads $0.00 for the modification amount and $0.00 obligated (pp. 2, 4). Its schedule sheet prices six option line items, each amount marked OPT: 3,241,200.00, 9,957,600.00, 6,006,000.00, 460,800.00, 115,000.00 and 5,219,400.00 (p. 3). The page prints no total; added together, which is this briefing’s arithmetic and not a figure on the page, they come to $25,000,000.00.
P00002 (D113), effective 2 February 2010, provides $11,948,810.00 for the exercise of Option Year I, removes the availability of funds clause, and states that the total obligated amount for the contract is $21,948,810.00; its authority is FAR 52.212-4(c) Changes Mar 2009 (pp. 2 to 3). Its schedule prices all six option line items lower, the research reports at 2,870,600.00 against 6,006,000.00 in P00001, and adds three: additional travel at 18,300.00 and two lines marked UNUSED at 0.00 (pp. 4 to 5). Set against the $25,000,000.00 sum, again this briefing’s arithmetic, the funded option year is less than half. Block 14 also sets out to identify impacts to deliverables as a result of reduced funding, pointing to an attachment, and to incorporate revised documentation and identify technical risks of reduced funding (pp. 2 to 3). The contractor’s signature date reads 2/2/10 on the page image (p. 2); p. 3 is a second, unsigned copy of the form with a handwritten note at its foot, legibility purpose, read from the page image. The distribution list at p. 1 leaves one person’s name and a telephone number unredacted in the contractor’s address block; this briefing does not repeat them.
P00003 (D114), effective 18 May 2010, changes the Contracting Officer’s Representative, whose name is boxed out, as an administrative change under FAR 43.103(b) that the contractor is not required to sign. It sets four conditions on the COR’s guidance, the first that it be consistent with the Statement of Work for this Contract (p. 2). P00004 (D115) is represented by its routing sheet alone: dated 18 May 2010, requisition field Admin Mod, seven copies, distribution completed on a date that reads 1 Jun 10 on the page image (p. 1).
P00005 (D116), effective and signed by both parties on 28 September 2010, bilaterally extends the period of performance from 09/22/2010 to 12/21/2010 under FAR clause 52.217-8, Option to Extend Services. Block 12 reads $0.00, the authority line reads Mutual Agreement, and paragraph c reads, on the page image, that no funding is required for this extension (p. 1). Its schedule sheets keep P00002’s prices and set every period of performance they print to end on 12/21/2010, under a heading that still ends on 21 September 2010 (pp. 2 to 3).
What the documents do not say
No page of the seven prints AAWSAP, AAWSA, UAP, UFO or DIRD. Each returns zero in every record, counted case-insensitively as a substring in the issued text layer, which is the only text layer these records carry, and again with the spaces taken out; every scanned page was also read as an image. Unidentified and the stem phenomen return zero as well. The acronym comes from the release’s file names; D110 spells the programme out in its title, and the other six do not name it.
The contract and the modifications do not name the Defense Intelligence Agency: the phrase, and the word Intelligence, return zero in D111 to D116, whose forms carry only the office code DIAC in the administering office’s address, which no page expands; the only page that spells out the agency’s name is D110 p. 1. The contract does not cite D110 either: Statement of Objectives returns zero in D111, with or without spaces, and so does D110’s date, 18 July 2008. The line items’ Tasks 3.a.1 to 3.a.12 carry the numbering of D110’s section 3.a. That they are its twelve areas is an inference from that numbering; the contract describes none of the tasks.
No statement of work is in the file. P00003 ties the COR’s guidance to one, and D111 carries the phrase once, inside a printed acquisition streamlining clause (p. 18), but no such document is attached, incorporated or described in the seven records. The option clauses the modifications cite, FAR 52.217-9 in P00001 and 52.217-8 in P00005, are not in D111’s table of contents or clause text, and neither is 52.232-18, which P00001 invokes.
Nothing lists, names or counts papers. The only quantities attached to the reports are the twelve areas of D110 and Quantity 12 against the status reports, management plans and research reports in the schedules. Two pieces are missing on the file’s own terms. The attachment P00002 points to is not among its five pages, and its form counts six pages in a handwritten figure where the release holds the form, a second copy of it, two schedule sheets and a distribution list. The P00004 form is not in D115, and no other record of the seven mentions P00004, so what it changed is not shown.
Nothing explains why the option year was repriced or why the work was extended, and nothing is recorded after 21 December 2010: no further modification, closeout or final delivery. Four search terms a reader may bring from accounts outside the record, AATIP, Reid, Skinwalker and Utah, return zero in all seven.
From the record
now through the year 2050. Primary focus is on breakthrough technologies and applications that
DOW-UAP-D110, p. 1, section 2, OBJECTIVE; the line closes the sentence that sets the objective against the foreign threat out to the far term and opens the next, which continues: create discontinuities in currently evolving technology trends.
(BAASS) proposal dated 9/3/2008 is incorporated by
DOW-UAP-D111, p. 3, the head of the schedule, under the COR field; the sentence begins: Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies, Inc
Funds are not presently available for this contract. The Government’s obligation
DOW-UAP-D112, p. 4, item D of the modification’s stated purposes, under the citation of FAR 52.232-18; the line holds one complete sentence and opens the next, which continues: under this contract is contingent upon the availability of appropriated funds from
a) Provide funding in the amount of $11,948,810.00 for the Exercise of Option Year I of Contract HHM402-08-C-0072 and thereby removing
DOW-UAP-D113, p. 3, paragraph a of block 14 on the unsigned second copy of the form; the sentence continues: the availability of funding clause referenced in modification P00001 dtd 9/02/09.
c) Incorporate the revised documentation showing utilization of 2010 funds and identify technical risks of reduced funding.
DOW-UAP-D113, p. 3, paragraph c of block 14, a complete sentence; the documentation it names is not among the record’s five pages
1.Consistent with the Statement of Work for this Contract.
DOW-UAP-D114, p. 2, the first of four conditions block 14 sets on guidance from the new Contracting Officer’s Representative, a complete sentence
MOD: P00004
DOW-UAP-D115, p. 1, the modification field at the head of the routing sheet, the only line in the record that says which modification the sheet belongs to
a) Bilaterally extend the POP from 09/22/2010 to 12/21/2010.
DOW-UAP-D116, p. 1, paragraph a of block 14, a complete sentence and the last change to the period of performance in the file
Where the case connects
The release files 37 further records, DOW-UAP-D117 to DOW-UAP-D153, under release titles that begin AAWSAP DIRD, or AAWSA DIRD in the case of D125. The link between those papers and this contract is made by the file names, not by any page of these seven records, which never use the word DIRD and never list or count a paper. Release 06 Briefings 11 to 23 take the papers in groups, and Release 06 Briefing 24 takes the release as a whole.
Press coverage of the release, which is outside the record, says the programme ended in 2012. No page of these seven records reaches past 21 December 2010; the only later date anywhere in the file is the February 2012 revision line of the form D111 is printed on.
Read it yourself
DOW-UAP-D110 to DOW-UAP-D116, from “AAWSAP Statement of Objectives July 18 2008” to “AAWSAP Contract Modification P00005 September 28 2010”, are hosted at war.gov in PURSUE Release 06; the reference list below gives each record’s release title. The twelve study areas are page 1 of DOW-UAP-D110, the contract’s price schedule is pages 3 to 5 of DOW-UAP-D111, and the option-year prices before and after the February 2010 modification are page 3 of DOW-UAP-D112 and pages 4 to 5 of DOW-UAP-D113.
Read the files. Decide for yourself.
Related wiki entries
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References and further reading
- DOW-UAP-D110, “AAWSAP Statement of Objectives July 18 2008”, PURSUE Release 06, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo
- DOW-UAP-D111, “AAWSAP Solicitation and Original Order September 22 2008”, PURSUE Release 06, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo
- DOW-UAP-D112, “AAWSAP Contract Modification P00001 September 2 2009”, PURSUE Release 06, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo
- DOW-UAP-D113, “AAWSAP Contract Modification P00002 February 2 2010”, PURSUE Release 06, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo
- DOW-UAP-D114, “AAWSAP Contract Modification P00003 May 18 2010”, PURSUE Release 06, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo
- DOW-UAP-D115, “AAWSAP Contract Modification P00004 May 18 2010”, PURSUE Release 06, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo
- DOW-UAP-D116, “AAWSAP Contract Modification P00005 September 28 2010”, PURSUE Release 06, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo
- Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE), U.S. Department of War, war.gov/ufo
- AARO UAP Records, All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, aaro.mil/UAP-Records