Advanced Aerospace Weapon Systems Applications Program (AAWSAP) Established

2008 September

The details of this project are still being revealed - however the following seems to be accurate.

In 2007 the DIA established the Advanced Aerospace Weapon Systems Applications Program (AAWSAP) to investigate so-called ‘breakthrough technologies’ and develop an understanding of the threat they might pose to the United States of America.

According to The Black Vault:

…this contract was awarded to Bigelow Aerospace‘s subsidiary Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS). Ultimately, it was reported that $22 million went to BAASS over the course of two years, and as a result, they produced 38 Defense Intelligence Reference Documents (DIRD) reports.

AAWSAP was informally referred to as AATIP - a designation that Harry Reid used when communicating about the project outside of classified contexts. According to Skinwalkers at the Pentagon this AATIP ‘nickname’ was not the same as the AATIP that was established at the Pentagon and led by Luis Elizondo.

According to Elizondo’s History of AATIP presentation

2007 - Program originally created as a bipartisan effort (Stevens (R) [witnessed a UAP when he was a pilot? senator for Alaska], Inouye (D-Hawaii), and Reid (D-Nevada) to better understand UAPs encountered by U.S. military ad [sic] determine if they represent a national security threat. (History of AATIP)

2007 - Congressional language establishes the “Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Application Program”, aka AAWSAP (History of AATIP)

2007 - DIA solicits contracts and BAAS [sic] is awarded the contract (History of AATIP)