The Positioning: Who Is Registered to Be Paid if Disclosure Becomes a Line Item

Blackgrove reports that it identified twenty prominent UAP principals and twenty associated entities, while the claimant-owned entities had received no identified federal awards as of August 3, 2026.

We identified twenty such principals and twenty associated entities. We can account for every dollar those entities have received from the United States government, and for the entities owned by the UAP claimants themselves the figure is zero.

The brief reports that Radiance Technologies held 120 Advanced Technical Exploitation Program II task orders worth $254.1 million, including 92 associated with contracting-office prefix FA8604.

Radiance Technologies holds 120 task orders worth $254.1M under the National Air and Space Intelligence Center's Advanced Technical Exploitation Program II, 92 of them on contracting-office prefix FA8604

Blackgrove assesses that the concentration of former UAP program officials across legislative, advisory and corporate roles is documented and material, while a coordinated-action interpretation remains unestablished.

Blackgrove assesses that the concentration of former UAP program officials across legislative, scientific-advisory and corporate positions is documented and material, and that its interpretation as coordinated action is unestablished.

The brief says its entity data came from System for Award Management records and its award data came from USAspending records screened at the award-description level.

This brief is built from primary records. Entity identifiers, physical addresses, incorporation states, entity start dates, registration status, NAICS codes and named points of contact are taken from System for Award Management entity registrations.

The source cautions that its public award dataset cannot reveal classified or special-access activity and that an absent unclassified award description does not establish the absence of activity.

Classified and special-access work is not in this data. Absence of an award description is not absence of an activity. It is absence of an unclassified award description.

Blackgrove explicitly says the report cannot establish whether recovered non-human material exists, whether named people committed misconduct, or whether the observed pattern was coordinated.

This brief cannot support: any conclusion about whether recovered non-human material exists; any allegation of conflict of interest, self-dealing or unlawful conduct by a named person; valuation of any private entity; a judgment about classified or special-access activity

The report says StarDustX Materials registered in SAM on May 26, 2026 under analytical-instrument, testing-laboratory and nanotechnology research codes and reported one employee.

StarDustX Materials first registered in SAM on 26 May 2026, active through June 2027, under NAICS 334516 (analytical laboratory instrument manufacturing), 541380 (testing laboratories) and 541713 (nanotechnology research and development).

Blackgrove argues that maintaining a SAM registration has little carrying cost, making selected industry codes and named officers more informative than registration alone.

Registration in SAM carries no fee, and annual renewal costs administrative time and nothing more. Because the carrying cost is close to zero, the mere existence and maintenance of these registrations implies considerably less about intent than it is usually made to carry.

The report notes that the two claimant-linked registrations nearest the policy calendar predated the legislative vehicle, a sequence consistent with commercial anticipation but also with ordinary firm formation by believers in a growing field.

The two registrations most closely tied to UAP claimants were taken out before, not after, the legislative vehicle that could create a market for them. That is consistent with commercial anticipation. It is equally consistent with ordinary firm-formation

The brief characterizes the Sol Foundation, Disclosure Foundation and New Paradigm Institute as a division of labor spanning academic legitimacy, legislation and public mobilization.

Three organisations carry most of the public argument for disclosure. They are frequently described as a movement. On the records they are better described as a division of labour

The report says the three principal disclosure organizations converge on using eminent domain to reclaim alleged anomalous materials held by private contractors.

The three bodies converge on a single mechanism: the use of eminent domain to reclaim anomalous materials held by private contractors.

Blackgrove describes the alignment between Karl Nell’s public reclamation advocacy and StarDustX’s materials-testing registration as unmanaged but public, and explicitly says it found no concealment or identified rule violation.

This is a coherence finding, not a concealment finding. The paper carries the author’s name and rank. The corporate role appears in a public federal database. Nothing has been hidden, no rule known to us has been broken

The report says Washington Headquarters Services issued a notice of intent for a multi-year, firm-fixed-price subscription to National UFO Historical Records Center data and analysis, with capability statements due August 17, 2026.

The notice of intent to sole source, solicitation NUFOHRC_20260731, posted 31 July 2026 by Washington Headquarters Services, describes a multi-year firm-fixed-price subscription for historical UAP data and analysis

Blackgrove argues that the instrument chosen for the NUFOHRC acquisition affects public ownership of digitized records, allocation of build risk and cost transparency, while directing those questions at AARO and Washington Headquarters Services rather than the vendor.

A prospective vendor does not select the contract vehicle; the contracting authority does. Every question raised in this section is directed at AARO and Washington Headquarters Services.

The brief reports that SanCorp Consulting received an AARO Support Services award dated August 22, 2022 and later Washington Headquarters Services task orders, including a January 28, 2026 order for administrative, analytic, scientific, IT and subject-matter support.

Its award HQ003422C0094, dated 22 August 2022, is described as AARO Support Services at $4.06M, followed by HQ003424C0046 at $5.76M and a series of Washington Headquarters Services task orders

After screening award descriptions from thirteen legacy contractors and research centers, Blackgrove says large-scale technical-exploitation language clustered only at Radiance’s NASIC work in the examined dataset.

The only place in this dataset where technical-exploitation language clusters at scale remains Radiance on NASIC. That asymmetry survived a deliberate attempt to break it.

The report says subaward records show Redwire receiving Lockheed Martin work and Radiance receiving Northrop Grumman and CACI money, weakening a simple challenger-versus-incumbent account.

Redwire’s largest single identified commercial relationship in this data is with Lockheed Martin. Radiance takes Northrop Grumman and CACI money. The firms cast as challengers are already inside the incumbents’ supply chains

The brief distinguishes a House records channel from an executive-branch witness channel and argues that the ODNI waiver does not void private contractor non-disclosure agreements.

July 2026 divided the disclosure question into two administrative tracks. They have different gatekeepers, different legal instruments and different dates ... A non-disclosure agreement between a contractor and its own employee is a private contractual instrument

When comparing David Grusch’s 2023 House disclosures with the 2026 StarDustX registration, the brief explicitly states that the later corporate registration does not make the earlier filing false.

A sworn disclosure describes the state of affairs on its date. The StarDustX registration postdates the 2023 form by nearly three years. A gap between a 2023 filing and a 2026 registration is not a false statement

Blackgrove says its ordinary-belief and ordinary-careers null hypothesis is not rejected because the claimant-owned entities showed no identified federal revenue, leaving the available records unable to distinguish normal careers from an unsuccessful or not-yet-converted commercial strategy.

H0 is not rejected by this assessment. The evidence that would be required to reject it is money, and there is almost none. Across the claimant-owned entities the total identified federal revenue is zero.