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The Manfield amendments were a huge blow to Project Whorl. Panic set in among the Trustees as they scheduled urgent meetings with top officials from the Nixon administration, including the president himself. Out of those meetings came a brilliant idea. The Gang of Eight has to be briefed on all special access programs, even those that are waived an... See more
Condorman • A Conceptual View of a UAP Reverse Engineering Program
Each quarter we try to study an admirable company and discuss it with our Operating Group managers and board members. We focus on high performance conglomerates that have demonstrated at least a decade of superior shareholder returns.
Ryan • Mark Leonard Letters
The project would attempt to invent an anti-gravity system from the ground up instead of reverse engineering it. This project began in 1955 with the establishment of the Research Institute for Advanced Studies (RIAS) at the Glenn L. Martin Company, which later became Martin-Marietta and ultimately merged with Lockheed in 1995 to form the modern com... See more
Condorman • A Conceptual View of a UAP Reverse Engineering Program
In late 1970, Lockheed was near bankruptcy because of the large debt they had built up to fund the L-1011 Tristar commercial aircraft program. They approached the Nixon administration for a $250 million loan guarantee to avoid insolvency. That is about $1.9 billion in today’s dollars. Here was an opportunity to transfer the assets to a private defe... See more
Condorman • A Conceptual View of a UAP Reverse Engineering Program

A classic and embarrassing tale of the R&D office (DARPA) not being connected to the warfighter.
This program was dead on arrival. A vehicle the size of a 747 with only about half the payload capability.
Designed for "Ground Effect flight", but also to be able to climb up to 10,000 ft, and ... See more

Anduril is now making giant fucking autonomous submarines. We're so back.
Full Article: First Ghost Shark Debuts in Australia - On Schedule & On Budget
Anduril, the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), the Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA) and Defence Science and Technology Group (D... See more