In a quiet briefing deck, a rare glimpse is offered into how the United States government — through the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) — funneled classified funding into the study of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) under the guise of aerospace research. The presentation, dated around 2009–2010, reveals the formal logistics behind AAWSAP (Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program) — the shadowy predecessor to the better-known AATIP — and its contracting relationship with Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS). The document confirms the award of Contract HHM402-08-C-0072, designated as a small business contract, with a stated funding of $12 million. While the public record initially framed the project as an aerospace systems analysis, the internal slides show the real objectives: - Investigation of advanced propulsion systems - Collection and analysis of anomalous materials - Infrastructure planning for classified research facilities The contract structure was designed to appear mundane — covering "engineering services" — but the presentation’s language and embedded tasks confirm it was about far more than aircraft. One slide outlines progress made on two major infrastructure projects: 1. A high-security underground vault designed to store "exotic material or tissue" 2. Newly purchased buildings for BAASS as part of personnel expansion The vault, designed with 3-foot-thick concrete walls, steel blast doors, and camouflaged construction, was set to be embedded at Bigelow’s Las Vegas campus. It was not just a storage site — it was engineered to hold recovered hardware and biological samples from unknown sources. This aligns directly with claims made in recent whistleblower testimony alleging retrieval and housing of non-human craft and entities. The slides clearly emphasize that the contract was managed under Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) protocols. All associated documents and analysis were to be conducted within a SCIF — a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility — and no public release of SCI was authorized without direct approval from the Contracting Officer Representative. Additionally, the document confirms compliance with DOD Manual 5200.2 and restrictions surrounding nuclear-related data and foreign national access — a clear indication of high-stakes materials. Perhaps most compelling is the inclusion of analysis work related to "anomalous" propulsion and performance characteristics. Using fluid dynamics modeling and high-speed flow analysis, the presentation showcases simulations of the so-called "Tic Tac" craft — including data visualizations at 1,500 mph with supersonic inlets. One slide even includes a table detailing the accelerations of the Tic Tac, estimating peaks at over 7,000 g — an impossibility by conventional aerospace engineering standards. This data strongly supports the claim that the U.S. military believes it has observed or modeled objects that exceed known physics constraints. The contract was coded under "Special studies and analysis – not R&D," which allowed it to evade typical procurement scrutiny. The slide deck makes clear that even building permits and public documentation for facilities were masked to appear as conventional infrastructure — all while the real mission remained behind closed doors. "Surface structures protruding from the ground will be extensively camouflaged," the document states. This suggests a pattern of scientific misdirection — where real work on exotic technologies is publicly represented as innocuous engineering. One memo in the deck is addressed to James T. Lacatski, a DIA official long associated with early UAP investigations. His involvement confirms that the effort was not rogue or speculative, but sponsored directly by senior military intelligence. It was Lacatski’s team, after all, who visited Skinwalker Ranch and produced the first known DIA assessments on non-human technology recovery operations. The presentation ends with status updates — security guidance, classification restrictions, and planning for long-term contract options. Nothing in this document references extraterrestrials explicitly. It doesn’t have to. From the architecture to the SCIF requirements to the Tic Tac analysis, it is an admission by omission. This was not a program speculating on the hypothetical. It was an active, classified, intelligence-backed operation to study things that aren’t supposed to exist.