DOW-UAP-D111 — AAWSAP contract award, schedules and data rights
This 59-page AAWSAP contract identifies BAASS, the September 2008 award, scheduled reports and government data rights. The released copy also includes a $21.95 million total and performance dates extending into December 2010, so it should be read with the later modifications rather than as an untouched record of the original award. Most pages contain standard procurement terms.
- File
- Document · Release 06
- Date
- Sep 22, 2008
- Location
- Washington, D.C.
- Extent
- 59 pages
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Probed Assessment
The released contract establishes the BAASS award and its deliverables, but its cumulative funding and revised dates cannot all be assigned to September 2008.
Key takeaways
- The cover identifies a September 22, 2008 award to BAASS.
- The released copy displays $21,948,810 and schedules extending to December 2010.
- The schedule incorporates a September 3 BAASS proposal and lists reports and an integrated threat assessment.
- Data-rights and release-permission clauses govern contract outputs; they do not establish what scientific results were obtained.
Why it matters
The contract provides the administrative link between the research objectives, BAASS and the later modifications. Reading its revised schedules with P00002 and P00005 prevents cumulative figures from being misreported as exclusively original award terms.
Corroboration
The funding total matches the cumulative obligation stated in P00002, and the December 21, 2010 end date matches P00005. Those companion records support reading the released copy as incorporating later terms.
Open questions
- • Which versions of the original schedules preceded the revisions preserved here?
- • Which contracted reports and assessments remain outside the current release?
Probed separates this editorial assessment from the source claims below. It summarizes what the released artifact supports; it is not independent verification.
Official Description from War.gov
This document is an administrative or programmatic record related to the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP), a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)-administered program active from 2008 to 2012. AAWSAP’s official scope of work identified 12 technical research areas relating to potential aerospace threats over a time horizon of more than 40 years. As an administrative record, the file documents how AAWSAP was scoped, organized, tasked, funded, or described at a particular point in time. This September 2008 solicitation/contract/order document serves as the original contract award instrument for AAWSAP work performed by Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies, Inc. (BAASS), incorporating the contractor’s proposal by reference and translating the earlier Statement of Objectives (DOW-UAP-D110) into priced contract line items. The file breaks the base year into specific deliverable categories, including monthly status reports, program management plans for the 12 technical areas, research reports, a comprehensive integrated threat assessment, travel, and other direct costs, and corresponding option-year line items for follow-on performance.
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Tracker findings
The cover identifies BAASS and a September 2008 award
The named contractor and award date are clear administrative anchors for the AAWSAP record. They do not date every revised figure printed elsewhere in the released copy.
The displayed $21.95 million total is a cumulative figure
P00002 independently states this same total after adding option-year funds. The cover amount should therefore be read with the modifications, not described as an untouched original award amount.
The schedule includes an integrated threat assessment
The deliverable list places individual technical reports within a larger assessment program. A deliverable requirement does not establish public availability or acceptance of the finished product.
The option-year schedule contains December 2010 end dates
Those line-item dates extend beyond the schedule heading’s September endpoint. P00005 provides the relevant extension context.
Government data rights include express qualifications
The clause gives the government broad rights while retaining specified copyright qualifications. It should not be reduced to a claim that all outputs are automatically public.
Contractor publication requires written permission
The contract limits release of newly produced data without the contracting officer’s written permission. This is a contractual control, not evidence of any particular withheld discovery.
The solicitation anticipates award without discussions
The provision explains the contemplated selection procedure while expressly retaining the option to hold discussions if needed.
Release provenance
- Release
- Release 06
- Official ID
- release-06-file-003-dow-uap-d111-aawsap-solicitation-and-original-order-september-2008
- Cleared
- Sep 18, 2026
Referenced Timeline
AAWSAP solicitation issued
The released contract cover form identifies this solicitation issue date.
BAASS proposal dated
The schedule incorporates the BAASS proposal carrying this date.
LinkedBAASSAAWSAP contract award dated
The cover form identifies this award date; displayed cumulative funding and later schedules should not be treated as exclusively original 2008 terms.
Source Claims
Claims are attributed to the released source and remain distinct from Probed’s assessment and tracker findings.
The released contract identifies September 22, 2008 as its award date and names Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies as contractor.
BIGELOW AEROSPACE ADVANCED SPACE STUDIES, LLC
Virginia Contracting Activity issued and administered the contract, with the NSA Finance and Accounting Office designated for payment.
NSA Finance and Accounting Office
The released cover form displays a total award amount of $21,948,810.
$21,948,810.00
The schedule incorporates BAASS’s proposal dated September 3, 2008 by reference.
Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies, Inc (BAASS) proposal dated 9/3/2008 is incorporated by reference.
The contract schedule explicitly describes the contract type as firm fixed price.
Contract Type: Firm Fixed Price
The base-year schedule includes monthly status reports, project management plans, research reports and a comprehensive integrated threat assessment.
Comprehensive Integrated Threat Assessment
The base-year research-report line for twelve technical tasks is priced at $2,100,000.
Research Report for Tasks 3.a.1. - 3.a.12
The released option-year schedule prints performance end dates of December 21, 2010 despite a heading that ends the option year in September 2010.
Period of Performance: 09/22/2009 to 12/21/2010
The option-year schedule assigns $2,870,600 to the research-report line.
2,870,600.00
The included data-rights clause gives the government unlimited rights in delivered and first-produced data, subject to the clause’s copyright provisions.
Unlimited rights in all data delivered under this contract, and in all data first produced in the performance of this contract, except as provided in paragraph (c) of this clause.
The data-rights clause restricts the contractor’s release or publication of newly produced contract data without written permission.
without written permission of the Contracting Officer.
The solicitation provision states an intention to select the best-value proposal and to award without discussions, while reserving the right to hold discussions if necessary.
The Government intends to evaluate proposals and award a contract without discussions with offerors
The disputes clause requires diligent contract performance while a claim, appeal or request for relief is pending.
The Contractor shall proceed diligently with performance of this contract, pending final resolution of any request for relief, claim, appeal, or action arising under the contract
Source Material & Evidence
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