Advanced Technology Center (ATC)
The Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center (ATC) is an advanced research and development organization within Lockheed Martin that has conducted work across optics, nanotechnology, space sciences, guidance systems, and exotic propulsion physics. It was later restructured and renamed STAR. The ATC is significant in UAP research both for its institutional work on Zero Point Energy propulsion and for its connection to the attempted Kona Blue material transfer.
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Zero Point Energy Research
In 1998, astrophysicist Bernard Haisch and physicist Hal Puthoff co-authored a paper published under the ATC's institutional umbrella focused on Zero Point Energy of the quantum vacuum. The paper examined one or more resonant frequencies potentially associated with quantum vacuum interaction for propulsion purposes. This constitutes published, institutional evidence that Lockheed Martin conducted research at the ATC level into exotic propulsion physics with potential UAP technology applications — paralleling the theoretical framework later cited by inventor Sal Pais in his 2017 Navy patent for a triangular craft utilizing quantum vacuum interactions for anti-gravitational capabilities.
Kona Blue Connection
The ATC was also the organizational home of James T. Ryder, a Lockheed Martin Vice President who between 2008 and 2011 attempted to transfer recovered nonhuman craft materials held by Lockheed since the 1950s to the DIA's AAWSAP program via a proposed waived USAP called Kona Blue. Ryder's position within the ATC — which covered guidance systems and advanced space sciences — positioned him as the Lockheed executive most relevant to both the custody and potential exploitation of recovered craft materials.