Network Graph: 94 Intelligence Entities
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (organisation) - Primary center for U.S. FRC research, from its earliest days to the modern era. - Connected to: Project Sherwood (Key Institution For), Early FRX-A/B/C Experiments (Conducted), LANL Vortex-Gravity Workshop (Hosted Workshop), Dr. Thomas Intrator (Employed), Dr. Glen A. Wurden (Employed), Dr. Toru E. Weber (Employed), Dr. Scott C. Hsu (Employed), M. Tuszewski (Employed), Dr. Hui Li (Employed), W.T. Armstrong (Employed), R.K. Linford (Employed), Air Force Research Laboratory (Collaborated on MTF With), Gabriel Ivan Font (Recruited From)
- Air Force Research Laboratory (organisation) - Partner in the MTF program, provided the Shiva Star liner implosion facility. - Connected to: MSNW LLC (concluded public funding)
- NASA MSFC (organisation) - Origin of the "gray track" propulsion-focused precursor (FAST/PTX program). - Connected to: NASA FAST/PTX Experiment (Sponsored)
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research (organisation) - U.S. government funding agency that managed key HPM research programs. - Connected to: Dr. John Luginsland (Employed As)
- National Science Foundation (organisation) - Cultivator of the "edge physics" gray track cohort through its SBIR program. - Connected to: NSF "Edge Physics" Meeting (Hosted), UnLAB LLC (Funds), Field Propulsion Technologies (Funds), Global Energy Corp. (Funds)
- Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (organisation) - Premier U.S. fusion research center; a key node for international knowledge transfer.
- Central Intelligence Agency (organisation) - Assessed executive agent for the MH370 asset denial operation. - Connected to: MH370 Asset Denial Operation (Led Operation)
- Joint Special Operations Command (organisation) - Provided specialized enabling support to the CIA-led MH370 operation. - Connected to: MH370 Asset Denial Operation (Supported)
- Naval Air Systems Command (organisation) - Institutional home of the "Applied R&D" track and the Pais patents.
- Lockheed Martin Skunk Works® (organisation) - Prime contractor for the "black track" CFR orb platform. - Connected to: Skunk Works® CFR Program (Owner Of), Freescale Semiconductor (Critical Supplier To), CFR Orb Flight Tests (Platform Tested In), Boeing (Contracts Flight Tests To), General Atomics EMS (Supplier), Teledyne e2v (Supplier), American Superconductor (Supplier), CBH Technologies (Supplier), MSNW LLC (likely prime contractor for)
- Boeing (organisation) - Assessed to be the lead contractor for the CFR orb's flight test operations.
- Leidos (organisation) - Major U.S. defense contractor, current employer of key HPM program manager John Luginsland.
- MSNW LLC (organisation) - Dr. Slough's "gray track" R&D firm for the Fusion Driven Rocket. - Connected to: MSNW "Goes Dark" (Subject Of), undefined (developing)
- Helion Energy (organisation) - Public-facing "commercial track" for FRC energy, co-founded by Slough.
- TAE Technologies (organisation) - Major commercial FRC company, destination for key LANL talent.
- Freescale Semiconductor (organisation) - Original developer of the CFR control system SoC; acquired by NXP. - Connected to: MH370 Asset Denial Operation (Target Asset From)
- The Carlyle Group (organisation) - Key investor in the 2006 Freescale LBO, providing a defense/intel nexus. - Connected to: Freescale Semiconductor LBO (Led)
- UnLAB LLC (organisation) - NSF-funded "edge physics" gray track firm (Charles Chase) focused on quantum vacuum energy.
- Field Propulsion Technologies (organisation) - NSF-funded "edge physics" gray track firm (Richard Banduric) focused on novel electrodynamics.
- Global Energy Corp. (organisation) - NSF-funded "edge physics" gray track firm (Larry Forsley) focused on Lattice Confinement Fusion.
- EarthTech International (organisation) - Dr. Hal Puthoff's research institute, intellectual anchor for the "edge physics" cohort.
- CBH Technologies (organisation) - Specialized "gray track" R&D cell for advanced plasma diagnostics.
- Woodruff Scientific (organisation) - "Gray track" computational hub providing simulation services to the FRC ecosystem. - Connected to: Los Alamos National Laboratory (Collaborates With), TAE Technologies (Client)
- BAE Systems (Manassas, VA) (organisation) - Successor contractor for the rad-hard SoC after 2014.
- General Atomics EMS (organisation) - Key supplier of military-grade capacitors and pulsed power systems.
- Teledyne e2v (organisation) - Key supplier of high-power thyratron switches for pulsed power systems.
- American Superconductor (organisation) - Key supplier of High-Temperature Superconductor (HTS) wire for FRC magnets.
- PRC FRC Program (CAEP/CAS) (organisation) - China's parallel program, accelerated after 2014. - Connected to: MH370 Asset Denial Operation (Threat Actor Driving), PRC Yingguang-I Design (Developed)
- Russian FRC Program (TRINITI) (organisation) - Russia's parallel program, hidden under a dual-use cover. - Connected to: S.V. Ryzhkov (Led Academic Track)
- Israeli FRC Program (Technion) (organisation) - Israel's clandestine effort, leveraging international knowledge acquisition.
- nT-Tao (organisation) - Israeli commercial fusion startup acting as a "modern LAKAM" for knowledge transfer. - Connected to: Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (Formal Collaboration)
- James L. Tuck (person) - Manhattan Project veteran and a key leader of Project Sherwood at LANL. - Connected to: Project Sherwood (Led Early Experiments In)
- W.T. Armstrong (person) - Key LANL physicist on the early FRX-A/B/C experiments in the 1980s. - Connected to: Early FRX-A/B/C Experiments (Led)
- R.K. Linford (person) - Pioneering LANL scientist and leader on the early FRX programs. - Connected to: Early FRX-A/B/C Experiments (Led)
- M. Tuszewski (person) - Pioneering LANL physicist, key figure from FRX-C to FRX-L, later at TAE Technologies. - Connected to: Early FRX-A/B/C Experiments (Key Physicist On), TAE Technologies (Transferred Knowledge To)
- Dr. Thomas Intrator (person) - Lead scientist for the LANL FRX-L experiment and mentor for the MTF program.
- Dr. Glen A. Wurden (person) - Key LANL scientist, led the FRC lifetime extension breakthrough on FRCHX.
- Dr. Toru E. Weber (person) - Lead scientist on the LANL MSX experiment, co-author with Slough.
- Dr. Scott C. Hsu (person) - LANL scientist on MSX, later ARPA-E Program Director.
- Dr. Hui Li (person) - Lead LANL theorist on 3D turbulent magnetic reconnection. - Connected to: FRCHX Experiment (Provided Theory For)
- Gabriel Ivan Font (person) - Plasma Physicist, key human vector from LANL to Skunk Works®. - Connected to: Lockheed Martin Skunk Works® (Transferred Knowledge To)
- Thomas McGuire (person) - Lead inventor of the Skunk Works® CFR. - Connected to: Skunk Works® CFR Program (Led), Lockheed Martin Skunk Works® (Lead Inventor At)
- Col. Matthew P. Giese (person) - USAF/Boeing test pilot, represents the bifurcated flight test model. - Connected to: Boeing (Chief Test Pilot)
- Dr. Michael L. Garrett (person) - Engineer linking CBH Technologies (diagnostics) to Skunk Works®. - Connected to: CBH Technologies (Employee), Thomas McGuire (Co-Inventor With)
- Dr. John Slough (person) - Founder of MSNW and Helion, central figure in the "gray track". - Connected to: NASA FAST/PTX Experiment (Led Research On), MSNW LLC (Founded), Helion Energy (Co-founded)
- Anthony Pancotti (person) - Key engineer, human bridge between MSNW and Helion. - Connected to: MSNW LLC (Propulsion Lead At), Helion Energy (Head of R&D At)
- Dr. David Kirtley (person) - CEO of Helion Energy, leader of the "commercial track". - Connected to: Helion Energy (CEO & Co-founder)
- Charles Chase (person) - Founder of UnLAB, former Skunk Works® program manager. - Connected to: UnLAB LLC (Founder), Lockheed Martin Skunk Works® (Former Employee)
- Richard Banduric (person) - Founder of Field Propulsion Technologies. - Connected to: Field Propulsion Technologies (Founder)
- Larry Forsley (person) - Founder of Global Energy Corp. - Connected to: Global Energy Corp. (Founder)
- Dr. Hal Puthoff (person) - Intellectual anchor of the "edge physics" cohort. - Connected to: EarthTech International (Founder)
- Dr. John Luginsland (person) - AFOSR Program Manager for HPM, later at Leidos. Key U.S. government node. - Connected to: AFOSR/ONR HPM Program (Managed), Leidos (Employed By)
- Dr. James Sheehy (person) - NAE CTO, executive champion of the Pais patents. - Connected to: Naval Air Systems Command (CTO Of), Pais Patents Filed (Championed)
- Dr. Salvatore Pais (person) - Inventor of the NAVAIR "Applied R&D" track patents. - Connected to: Naval Air Systems Command (Researcher At)
- Joanne Maguire (person) - Former EVP of Lockheed Martin Space Systems, joined Freescale board in 2013. - Connected to: Freescale Semiconductor (Board Oversight)
- Dr. Anna Brady-Estevez (person) - NSF Program Director and "network weaver" for the edge physics cohort. - Connected to: NSF "Edge Physics" Meeting (Chaired)
- Prof. Yakov Krasik (person) - Head of Technion P4 Lab, central node of the Israeli human capital pipeline. - Connected to: Israeli FRC Program (Technion) (Central Node Of), Dr. Vladislav Vekselman (Mentored)
- Dr. Vladislav Vekselman (person) - Krasik's student, transferred knowledge to PPPL and TAE Technologies. - Connected to: Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (Transferred Knowledge To), TAE Technologies (Collaborated With)
- Oded Gour-Lavie (person) - Retired IDF Rear Admiral, CEO of nT-Tao. - Connected to: nT-Tao (CEO & Founder)
- S.V. Ryzhkov (person) - Lead Russian academic on the "thermonuclear motor" concept.
- The Manhattan Project (event) - 1942-1946. Forged the cadre of physicists who would later lead U.S. fusion research. - Connected to: James L. Tuck (Key Physicist On)
- Project Sherwood (event) - c. 1951-1970s. U.S. post-war fusion research where field-reversal was first observed. - Connected to: Early FRX-A/B/C Experiments (Observed Field-Reversal During)
- Early FRX-A/B/C Experiments (event) - c. 1978-1988. Pioneering LANL research that established the foundational physics of FRCs. - Connected to: FRX-L Experiment (Scientific Precursor To)
- LANL Vortex-Gravity Workshop (event) - 1979. Earliest known theoretical inquiry into plasma-gravity interactions. - Connected to: Dr. Hui Li (Informed Theoretical Track Of)
- FRX-L Experiment (event) - c. 2001-2003. LANL experiment that proved the viability of the high-density FRC plasma target. - Connected to: Dr. Thomas Intrator (Led By), Dr. Glen A. Wurden (Key Scientist)
- NASA FAST/PTX Experiment (event) - c. 2002-2005. NASA program that pioneered FRCs for in-space propulsion. - Connected to: MSNW LLC (Technology Vectorized Into)
- Freescale Semiconductor LBO (event) - 2006. Creation of a corporate shield for the control system team.
- FRCHX Experiment (event) - c. 2007-2013. Integrated LANL/AFRL experiment to compress an FRC with a liner. - Connected to: Dr. Glen A. Wurden (Led Lifetime Research On), Los Alamos National Laboratory (Led By), Air Force Research Laboratory (Hosted At)
- Skunk Works® CFR Program (event) - c. 2010-Present. The "black track" program to develop the CFR orb, led by Thomas McGuire.
- MSX Experiment (event) - c. 2013-2015. LANL testbed that solved the critical FRC lifetime problem. - Connected to: Dr. Toru E. Weber (Led By), Dr. Thomas Intrator (Mentored), Dr. Scott C. Hsu (Mentored)
- PRC Yingguang-I Design (event) - 2013. Design of China's first FRC device, signaling active competition.
- MH370 Asset Denial Operation (event) - March 8, 2014. U.S. covert action to neutralize the Freescale team. - Connected to: BAE Systems (Manassas, VA) (Necessitated Successor Role Of)
- Pais Patents Filed (event) - 2015. Start of the "Applied R&D" track.
- MSNW "Goes Dark" (event) - 2017. MSNW's public funding ceases as it transitions to a clandestine OTA.
- CFR Orb Flight Tests (event) - August 2024. Public sightings and financial losses indicate the start of the flight test phase.
- NSF "Edge Physics" Meeting (event) - November 2024. Coalescence of the new gray track cohort. - Connected to: Charles Chase (Featured Speaker), Richard Banduric (Participant), Larry Forsley (Participant), Dr. Hal Puthoff (Featured Speaker)
- AFOSR/ONR HPM Program (event) - Multi-year research into High Power Microwaves, linking US and Israeli scientists. - Connected to: Prof. Yakov Krasik (Funded Collaboration With)
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