DOW-UAP-D114 — AAWSAP P00003: representative change and authority limits
P00003 changes the contracting officer’s representative for the AAWSAP contract on May 18, 2010; the released copy withholds the appointee’s identity. The amendment limits the representative’s guidance to existing work and bars changes to scope, schedule, quantities or total value. It records a zero-dollar administrative modification.
- File
- Document · Release 06
- Date
- May 18, 2010
- Location
- Washington, D.C.
- Extent
- 3 pages
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Probed Assessment
P00003 appoints a replacement contracting officer’s representative while limiting that representative to the existing contract terms.
Key takeaways
- The released copy withholds the new representative’s identity.
- Guidance cannot add work, extend schedules or raise quantities and value.
- The modification records no additional obligation.
Why it matters
The amendment clarifies who may guide performance and where that authority ends. Its administrative change should not be presented as an expansion of AAWSAP’s technical mission.
Corroboration
The amendment identifies the same contract as the surrounding series. Its operative restrictions are direct evidence; the redacted identity cannot be reconstructed from the released text.
Open questions
- • Does another released administrative record identify the representative without redaction?
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 May 2010 contract modification is an administrative change to contract HHM402-08-C-0072. The modification states that its purpose is to change the Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) designation for the AAWSAP contract and identifies the newly designated COR while specifying that guidance from the COR must comply with the contract’s governing terms. In effect, the file is best understood as an internal contract-administration update reflecting oversight realignment rather than a substantive change to AAWSAP’s research deliverables or program direction.
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File Context
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Tracker findings
The representative changes, but the identity is withheld
The operative clause establishes an appointment while leaving the individual unnamed in the public copy.
The representative cannot add new work
The guidance authority is bounded by the existing terms and specifications. This modification does not authorize an expanded research scope.
Guidance cannot extend the performance schedule
A separate contractual action would be needed to change the term; P00005 later supplies such an extension.
Quantities and total value are outside the guidance authority
The restriction separates day-to-day technical direction from changes to the government’s contractual commitment.
Release provenance
- Release
- Release 06
- Official ID
- release-06-file-020-dow-uap-d114-aawsap-contract-modification-p00003-may-2010
- Cleared
- Sep 18, 2026
Referenced Timeline
Representative designation changed
P00003 identifies May 18, 2010 as the effective date of the administrative change.
Source Claims
Claims are attributed to the released source and remain distinct from Probed’s assessment and tracker findings.
P00003 changes the contracting officer’s representative for contract HHM402-08-C-0072.
Change the COR designation on Contract HHM402-08-C-0072
The representative’s guidance must remain consistent with the contract’s statement of work.
Consistent with the Statement of Work for this Contract.
The representative cannot use guidance to assign new work or alter the contract’s expressed terms or specifications.
Not constitute a new assignment of work or change the expressed terms, conditions, or specifications incorporated in this Contract.
Guidance cannot provide a basis for extending the performance period or delivery schedule.
Not constitute a basis for extension to the period of performance or delivery schedule.
The amendment bars the representative’s guidance from increasing line-item quantities or the total contract value.
Not constitute a basis for increase in any CLIN quantities or in the total contract value.
The administrative modification records no additional obligated amount.
Modification Obligated Amount: $0.00
Source Material & Evidence
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