AAWSAP Contract Modification P00003, May 18, 2010 — Department of War File
This May 2010 contract modification is an administrative change to contract HHM402-08-C-0072. The modification states that its purpose is to change the Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) designation for the AAWSAP contract and identifies the newly designated COR while specifying that…
Incident Overview
This contract record from the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP), the Defense Intelligence Agency program later run by Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies, is dated May 18, 2010. It was declassified and published on September 18, 2026 as part of the sixth tranche of the Department of War’s Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE). The released copy carries redactions.
What the government released
This document is an administrative or programmatic record related to the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP), a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)-administered program active from 2008 to 2012. AAWSAP’s official scope of work identified 12 technical research areas relating to potential aerospace threats over a time horizon of more than 40 years. As an administrative record, the file documents how AAWSAP was scoped, organized, tasked, funded, or described at a particular point in time.
This May 2010 contract modification is an administrative change to contract HHM402-08-C-0072. The modification states that its purpose is to change the Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) designation for the AAWSAP contract and identifies the newly designated COR while specifying that guidance from the COR must comply with the contract’s governing terms. In effect, the file is best understood as an internal contract-administration update reflecting oversight realignment rather than a substantive change to AAWSAP’s research deliverables or program direction.
Related records
This record belongs with the rest of the program’s founding and contract paperwork, AAWSAP Statement of Objectives, AAWSAP Solicitation and Original Order, AAWSAP Contract Modification P00001, AAWSAP Contract Modification P00002, AAWSAP Contract Modification P00004, and AAWSAP Contract Modification P00005. Read in date order they show how the program was scoped, extended and funded.
The case in this archive
This record is a primary source for the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program, written up here at length from the contemporary record. The file and the case history are worth reading against each other: the document is narrower and more cautious than the account that grew up around it, which is usually the point.
Status of the case
This is contract paperwork, and its value is plain once it is read that way. It shows how the Defense Intelligence Agency defined, funded and extended the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program, which was awarded in 2008 to Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies in Las Vegas. It does not describe a UAP encounter, and it contains no finding about the nature of unidentified phenomena. Much of the public argument about AAWSAP has been about what the program was really for, and records like this one are the most direct evidence on that question: what the government asked the contractor to deliver, by when, and for how long it kept paying. The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office has made no determination about this record.