Historik och ursprung för programmet Kona Blue

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The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office 
History and Origin of KONA BLUE
The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) first learned of the KONA BLUE 
program from interviews conducted as part of its historical review. 
 Multiple interviewees 
identified KONA BLUE as a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sensitive compartment 
established to protect the retrieval and exploitation of "non-human biologics." AARO researched 
the information provided by the interviewees and learned KONA BLUE was a Prospective 
Special Access Program (PSAP) that had been proposed to DHS leadership but was never 
approved or formally established. KONA BLUE never received any materials or funding, and 
there is no information beyond the proposal presentation marked with the KONA BLUE name. 
AARO traced the origin of the proposal for KONA BLUE to the Advanced Aerospace 
Weapon System Application Program (AAWSAP)/Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification 
Program (AATIP) program, which was managed by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) 
from 2009-2012 and funded through congressional earmarks. Bigelow Aerospace, headquartered 
in Nevada, served 
as the primary contractor executing funds for the program and delivered 
multiple reports during the period of their contract. DIA terminated the program due to a cited 
lack of merit and 
lack of utility in the products Bigelow produced for DIA’s mission. 
When DIA canceled AAWSAP/AATIP, several individuals involved with that program 
advocated for DHS to take the effort over and fund 
a new version of AAWSAP/AATIP under the 
code name “KONA BLUE.” According to the proposal, KONA BLUE would continue the work 
previously undertaken by DIA’s AAWSAP/AATIP to investigate, identify, and analyze sensitive 
materials and technologies, to include advanced aerospace vehicles. In 2011, the DHS Under 
Secretary for Science and Technology (S&T) established KONA BLUE as a PSAP based on 
claims that relevant information and material existed and required this level of protection. The 
Under Secretary (S&T) also cited congressional interest in the subject and possible impacts on 
homeland security as part of the justification for the program. Six months later, however, the 
Deputy Secretary of DHS disapproved KONA BLUE as a Special Access Program (SAP), and 
further directed its immediate termination citing concerns about the adequacy of justification for 
the program, and sufficiency of information central to the proposal development, including 
personnel and budget requirements. 
It is critical to note that while some DHS personnel believed 
that relevant information 
and material would be delivered to DHS upon establishment of the SAP, no data or material of 
any kind was ever transferred to or collected by DHS under the auspices of KONA BLUE. 
Information associated with the activities conducted under the auspices of AAWSAP/AATIP 
remains within DIA’s archived holdings. 
This archived PSAP proposal and associated documents have been declassified in 
partnership between DoD and DHS and are being released to the public in accordance with both 
agencies’ commitment to transparency. 
Other than a single instance of Attorney-Client material redacted from page 38 by DHS, 
all redactions were made by the Department of Defense.