Inside the 2008 AAWSAP Contract: A $21.9M DIA Award to Bigel

Inside the 2008 AAWSAP Contract: A $21.9M DIA Award to Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies

A September 22, 2008 Standard Form 1449 shows the Virginia Contracting Activity awarding contract HHM402-08-C-0072 to Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies, LLC, with a total award amount of $21,948,810.00 and line items including research reports and a Comprehensive Integrated Threat Assessment.

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October 8, 2026

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A Priced Federal Obligation Without Stated Research Scope

The Standard Form released as DOW-UAP-D111 is, on its face, a complete procurement instrument. 00. It states a contract type — firm fixed price — and a base year running from 22 September 2008 to 21 September 2009, with an option year to follow.

It itemizes deliverables and assigns each a dollar value. What it never does is describe what any of that money was for. That asymmetry is the central fact of this record.

The form is specific about obligation, recipient, period, and price, and silent about subject matter. The line items are administrative categories: monthly status reports, a project management plan, research reports, a comprehensive integrated threat assessment, travel, and other direct costs. Each is priced.

None is characterized. 12 — are referenced as the structure of the work but their descriptions are not included in the released text. 00 base-year value and no stated scope.

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DOW-UAP-D111, AAWSAP Solicitation and Original Order, September 2008

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