DIA's 2008 AAWSAP Solicitation and $21.9M Bigelow Aerospace Contract

DIA's 2008 Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program Solicitation

A declassified 2008 solicitation and contract award shows the Defense Intelligence Agency's Virginia Contracting Activity sought far-term forecasts of breakthrough aerospace threats — and ultimately awarded a $21.9 million firm-fixed-price contract to Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies.

Published

September 11, 2026

Declassified

Date not listed

Source agency

The Black Vault (FOIA archive)

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Opening summary

On September 22, 2008, the Virginia Contracting Activity at Bolling AFB issued a Standard Form 1449 solicitation/contract award document numbered HHM402-08-C-0072. The award went to Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies, LLC (BAASS) of Las Vegas, Nevada, under solicitation HHM402-08-R-0211, with a total award amount listed as $21,948,810.00. The contract is a Firm Fixed Price instrument covering a base year and at least one option year, and its line items include monthly status reports, a project management plan for Tasks 3.a.1–3.a.12, research reports for the same task set, a Comprehensive Integrated Threat Assessment, travel, and other direct costs.

This document is the companion to an earlier-released solicitation record for the same program — the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP). The prior record described what the government asked contractors to study; this award document shows what the government agreed to buy and at what price. Together they form a more…

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This article is based on two official or officially derived releases of the same procurement file: the award document released through https://www.war.gov/UFO/ and the prior solicitation record released through The Black Vault document archive at https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/advanced-aerospace-weapon-systems-applications-program-aawsap-original-bid-solicitation/. The award document is a Standard Form 1449 solicitation/contract/order for commercial items. Some fields contain redaction markers such as (b)(3) and (b)(6), indicating withheld information. Readers should verify garbled or encoded passages against the original PDFs. Official source documents referenced in this article: - https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/advanced-aerospace-weapon-systems-applications-program-aawsap-original-bid-solicitation/ - https://www.war.gov/UFO/

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