Link to Gizmodo Article
To the Stars Academy of Arts and Sciences (TTSA)—the UFO research organization founded by former Blink 182 star Tom DeLonge—has struck a research deal with the U.S. Army filled with eye-popping references to exotic technologies.
This week, the group announced that it had entered a "Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) to advance TTSA's materiel and technology innovations in order to develop enhanced capabilities for Army ground vehicles." Officials at the CCDC's Ground Vehicle System Center subsequently confirmed to the Drive that such an agreement had been struck. The center did not immediately return Gizmodo's request for comment.
The document largely mirrors TTSA's claims to have made developments in "material science, space-time metric engineering, quantum physics, beamed energy propulsion, and active camouflage," and the Army's interest in "novel materials," but it does go into somewhat more detail. Towards the end of the document, the Army clearly states what it gains from conducting tests at "Government facilities" on TTSA's supposed tech:
The contract also states that TTSA's interest in the CRADA lies in obtaining third party assessments of how its technology performs in "Army ground vehicle environments and benchmark that capability against existing technology capabilities." It seems pretty clear cut this is an agreement in which the Army intends to vet that TTSA actually has something up its sleeve.If the Government can verify materiel solutions claims by the Collaborator, then significant advancements can be made in the capabilities of Army ground vehicle platforms in terms of security, force protection, and weight reduction.
Then it gets really weird. The Army said the government is interested in everything from "inertial mass reduction" technology to "electromagnetic metamaterial wave guides" and "quantum communications":
Further down in the document, the government lists "materiel technologies" that TTSA has agreed to provide, hinting that in addition to metamaterials, TTSA claims to have performed research on quantum communications and may possess prototypes of beamed energy propulsion vehicles and "active camouflage and directed photon projection" systems:Perform assessments, testing, and characterization of Collaborator-provided technologies. The Government is interested in a variety of the Collaborator's technologies, such as, but not limited to inertial mass reduction, mechanical/structural metamaterials, electromagnetic metamaterial wave guides, quantum physics, quantum communications, and beamed energy propulsion."
The document goes on to state that TTSA will "provide secure shipping of Collaborator technologies to the Government" (estimating the value of all items at $1 million), and that any testing or evaluation results will be shared with both parties.a) Metamaterial: Samples of mechanical and EM sensitive metamaterial collected, obtained, or developed as part of its Field Operations
b) Material Analysis: Written data, information, and analysis related to tested materials
c) Quantum Communication:
d) Beamed Energy Propulsion
- Related research to-date on theories, studies, mathematical formulas, and protoypes
- Future developments, prototypes, and hardware associated with the specific quantum product
e) Active Camouflage and Directed Photon Projection
- Launch vehicles, vehicle prototypes, and systems obtained or possessed
- Data associated with testing, developing, and improving persistence or stability of launch vehicles or launch systems
- Proposed application of these systems
- Projection systems
- Technology associated with these systems
- Material projection surfaces
- Proposed application of these systems
