One of the most significant cross-program intelligence finds in the UAP disclosure ecosystem: John Greenewald Jr. at The Black Vault identified DARPA Program Element PE 0603286E — “Advanced Aerospace System Concepts” — which first appeared in the 2008 DARPA Fact File. This is the same year the DIA solicited private sector bids for the AAWSA Program (what became AATIP). The DARPA program’s stated objectives: “examine and evaluate emerging aerospace technologies and system concepts for applicability to military use.” Topics include: “methods of defeating enemy anti-aircraft attacks; munition technologies; novel launch systems; air vehicle control, power, propulsion, materials, and architectures.” This is word-for-word identical to the language in AATIP/AAWSAP program documentation. Budget: $100-180 million per year across its sub-programs, which include Tactically Exploited Reconnaissance Node, Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept, Tactical Boost Glide, and the Advanced Aerospace System Concepts line item specifically. The program continued to receive funding through at least FY2021 per DOD budget documents sent to The Black Vault. Whether this is a parallel research track to the classified UAP reverse-engineering programs described by Grusch, or entirely separate, cannot be confirmed from public records. What is confirmed: the same program language, the same time period, and the same institutional players (DARPA, DIA, AATIP) all running simultaneously during the period when, per Grusch’s sworn testimony, the US was actively running a multi-decade crash retrieval and reverse-engineering program.