El programa AAWSAP de la DIA operó como un contrato formal de la Agencia de Inteligencia de la Defensa aproximadamente entre 2008 y 2010 o 2…

🚨‼️ DIA AAWSAP operated as a formal Defense Intelligence Agency contract program from roughly 2008 through 2010 or 2012: its core mission was to evaluate far-term foreign advanced aerospace threats and potential breakthrough technologies projected out to around 2050, with most of its research areas overlapping studies of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) 😳👽🛸 Dr. James T. Lacatski (also referred to as James T. Lacatski, D.Eng.) was the DIA program manager and director of AAWSAP (Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program). On the government side, Lacatski served as the Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR), Government Project Leader, and overall program manager. Official solicitation and contract documents, including HHM402-08-R-0211, explicitly name him in this role. A career DIA intelligence officer and nuclear/rocket engineer, he helped initiate and structure the program from within DIA’s Defense Warning Office and Acquisition Support Division, and he is widely identified in both primary documents and secondary accounts as the program’s director. Jay Stratton @jaystratton , a career intelligence officer with more than 32 years of service across the Army, Air Force, Naval Intelligence, and the Defense Intelligence Agency, worked in DIA’s Defense Warning Office as Chief of Air and Space Warfare during the AAWSAP period. He is widely described as a co-founder of the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program alongside program manager James Lacatski, helping shape the effort that received roughly $22 million in congressionally directed funding and was executed through the BAASS contract. Stratton provided senior intelligence support focused on threats, technologies, and national-security implications, and he played a role in early case investigations, including the 2004 USS Nimitz “Tic Tac” encounter that was examined under the AAWSAP framework. Within the program, Stratton helped recruit additional personnel for counterintelligence and security functions and contributed to the analysis of reported UAP activity and related anomalous effects. He is frequently identified as a continuity figure who remained involved as AAWSAP transitioned into the more informal AATIP effort and later served as the first director of the formal Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force established in 2020. Public accounts, including those in books co-authored by program participants, portray him as one of the key DIA officers who bridged the government side of the AAWSAP contract with field investigations and subsequent UAP collection efforts. On the contractor side, the sole contractor was Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) under contract HHM402-08-C-0072, awarded in September 2008 for a total of roughly $22 million. Operational leadership of the contract was provided by Robert Bigelow as founder and owner, Dr. Colm Kelleher as Deputy Administrator of BAASS (who ran day-to-day execution, field investigations, and operations in Las Vegas), and Dr. Hal Puthoff as chief scientist involved in the technical studies and Defense Intelligence Reference Documents (DIRDs). AAWSAP was a formal DIA contract program that operated roughly from 2008 to 2010/2012. Its focus was assessing far-term foreign advanced aerospace threats and breakthrough technologies out to approximately 2050, including topics that overlapped with research into unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP). The effort produced dozens of DIRDs and received political sponsorship primarily from Senators Harry Reid, Ted Stevens, and Daniel Inouye. AAWSAP is distinct from, though often conflated with, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP). AATIP is frequently described as an informal or overlapping label rather than a formally funded program of record. Luis Elizondo has claimed a leadership role in AATIP-related efforts, official DIA contract documentation for the funded AAWSAP program centers on Lacatski as the government lead.