AAWSAP
The Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP) was a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) program that ran from 2008 to 2012, funded at approximately $22 million and championed by then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. AAWSAP was awarded, via a sole-source DIA contract dated September 22, 2008, to Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS), a subsidiary of Robert Bigelow's Bigelow Aerospace. The program's DIA-side director was James T. Lacatski. AAWSAP funded 38 Defense Intelligence Reference Documents on topics including UAP flight characteristics, advanced propulsion concepts, and related aerospace science, and personnel and reporting connected to AAWSAP became closely associated with the Pentagon's separate but overlapping AATIP effort — a conflation that a December 2017 New York Times article reporting on both programs' existence is widely credited with cementing in public understanding.
Alleged UAP Program Significance
UAP Gerb's Special Access Required Vol.2 treats AAWSAP as the DIA's genuinely funded, congressionally-sponsored program — distinct from the informal, unfunded working group the video argues ATIP actually was. The video states AAWSAP was the intended recipient of the Kona Blue material-transfer proposal from Lockheed Martin, through which Lockheed Vice President James T. Ryder reportedly sought to divest recovered UAP materials into a DHS-administered Special Access Program structure around 2008–2011. Luis Elizondo has publicly described conducting his UAP investigation work "together" with Jay Stratton and a wider team during this period.