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PENTAGON UFO FILE · DOCUMENT · DOW-UAP-D110AAWSAP Statement of Objectives, July 2008
This four-page Statement of Objectives, dated July 18, 2008, is the founding requirements document for the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program. It comes from the DIA’s Acquisition Support Division, which it describes as responsible for projections of the future threat environment for US weapon systems, and it told prospective contractors what to propose. The text never mentions UFOs or UAP; it is framed entirely as a study of foreign aerospace threats.
What the DIA asked for
The stated aim was to understand the physics and engineering of breakthrough aerospace applications out to 2050, explicitly not to extrapolate from current technology. The twelve study areas include signature reduction across optical, infrared, radio-frequency and acoustic bands, and armament using radio-frequency and directed-energy weapons. The staffing rules are demanding: experts with at least 10 years in breakthrough aerospace research, a lead integrator, and at least one PhD on every analytical team. Bidders had to show that, within the past 7 years, they had designed, built and flight-tested high-performance aircraft or satellites as a prime contractor.
Terms and security
Reports were to be suitable for the highest levels of government, each with a plain-language executive summary. The work could involve Top Secret/SCI material, the contractor needed a cleared facility, classified data had to be returned within 30 days of the contract’s end and purchased property within 60 days. The contract was to be firm fixed-price, with a 12-month base year and four option years. The award that followed is DOW-UAP-D111.
The official description
From war.gov/UFO, released September 18, 2026, quoted in full
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 July 2008 Statement of Objectives defines AAWSAP as a contractor-supported research effort intended to assess far-term foreign aerospace threats by understanding the physics and engineering of possible breakthrough technologies out to the year 2050 rather than extrapolating from then-current aerospace trends. It identifies 12 technical study areas, including lift, propulsion, control, power generation, spatial or temporal translation, materials, configuration and structure, signature reduction, human interface, human effects, armament, and related supporting topics. The document also sets out the program’s expected work structure, requiring monthly status reports, technical-area program management plans within 60 days, comprehensive research reports and briefings by the tenth month, and a final integrated threat assessment.