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The U.S. Army has confirmed that it has signed a cooperative research deal with former Blink 182 frontman Tom DeLonge‘s To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science, more commonly known as TTSA. Far better known for its activities investigating reports and sightings of UFOs, which are increasingly referred to as unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs, this new agreement covers research into metamaterials and other high technology fields that border on the realm of science fiction.
On Oct. 17, 2019, TTSA announced the Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with Army’s Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC), which is now part of that service’s Futures Command. The public affairs office at CCDC’s Ground Vehicle System Center (GVSC), situated at the Detroit Arsenal in Warren, Michigan, subsequently confirmed to The War Zone that this CRADA exists and that it will be responsible for executing it.
CRADAs are unlike typical contracts and “no money exchanging hands at all” between the Army and TTSA under this present agreement, a public affairs officer at the GVSC told The War Zone. There is also “no articulated deliverable” and if a product comes out of this process, it will most likely be a written study or another similar type of report.
The ostensible goal is for Army researchers to work directly with individuals from TTSA in exploring various high technology developments, sharing resources, and any results. “TTSA’s technology solutions, which leverage developments in material science, space-time metric engineering, quantum physics, beamed energy propulsion, and active camouflage, have the potential to enhance survivability and effectiveness of multiple Army systems,” TTSA’s own press release says.
TTSA bills itself as a “revolutionary collaboration between academia, industry and pop culture to advance society’s understanding of scientific phenomena and its technological implications.” It also has an Entertainment Division that publishes works of fiction about UFOs and the paranormal, serves as the holder of intellectual property rights related to DeLonge’s new band, Angels & Airwaves, and is responsible for merchandising associated with all of these enterprises. The actual origins of the organization are murky, to say the least.
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“Our partnership with TTSA serves as an exciting, non-traditional source for novel materials and transformational technologies to enhance our military ground system capabilities,” Dr. Joseph Cannon, the Deputy Product Manager for Science and Technology in the Vehicle Protection Systems division of GVSC, said in a statement. “At the Army’s Ground Vehicle Systems Center, we look forward to this partnership and the potential technical innovations forthcoming.”
This reference to “novel materials” strongly suggests that at least part of the CRADA is concerned with metamaterials. This term refers to engineered composites that have properties that do not appear in nature. It is the structure of these new materials, more than their composition that gives them these attributes, including the ability to have unique impacts on electromagnetic waves.
“This cooperative research agreement brings additional, critically important expertise that is necessary to advance the state-of-the-art in both our near and long-term technology areas of study,” Steve Justice, TTSA’s Chief Operating Officer and director of the organization’s Aerospace Division, who previously held the same title at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works advanced design bureau, added in his own statement. “While the Army has specific military performance interests in the research, much of the work is expected to have dual-use application in support of TTSA’s path to commercialization and public benefit mission.”
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Though the Army, as well as the U.S. military as a whole, are certainly interested in advanced and novel materials, including metamaterials, for a wide variety of applications, along with the other technologies mentioned, it is entirely unclear what TTSA has actually offered to share with the service through this CRADA. TTSA, which The War Zone has been following extremely closely, has not publicly said that it has actually developed any advanced technology for any purpose from what we can tell and it is unclear what institutional experience the organization may have with this kind of work.
However, we do know that in 2018, TTSA revealed that it had “entered into two statements of work with EarthTech International, Inc. (‘ETI’) to prepare plans, perform scientific analysis and advise the company on materials analysis (‘SOW-MSSA’) and beamed energy propulsion launch systems (‘SOW-BELS’),” in a semi-annual financial report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). TTSA planned to pay ETI no more than $35,000 and $25,000 for these projects, respectively. The organization notably touted its work in both of these areas in the press release about the Army CRADA.
“We are in the process of evaluating and planning projects in the Aerospace and Science Divisions, in particular regarding materials, an essential precursor to STME [Space Time Metric Engineering], and Beamed Energy Propulsion Launch Systems (‘BELS’),” the same SEC report claimed. When it comes to novel materials, ETI’s job was to “prepare a plan and advise on the collection and scientific evaluation of materials samples the company obtained through reliable reports of advanced aerospace vehicles of unknown origin.”
In July 2019, TTSA announced that it had acquired unspecified metamaterials as part of its Acquisition and Data Analysis of Materials program, or ADAM. The organization had already previously claimed to have obtained a number of unknown “samples” as part of that effort, which officially began last year. The new items in question, purportedly from “an advanced aerospace vehicle of unknown origin,” have been floating around the UFO community for years after the late Art Bell, who had been the host of the paranormal radio program Coast to Coast AM, first claimed he had acquired them from an anonymous source. Bell died on April 13, 2018.
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How they got from Bell to TTSA isn’t entirely clear. TTSA initially implied it had acquired them from Linda Moulton Howe, who has written extensively about and reported on UFOs and other conspiracy theories, including the various purported activities at the notorious Skinwalker Ranch in Utah, for decades. A 2019 SEC report, however, said that Tom DeLonge, as an individual, had sold them to the organization for $35,000. It doesn’t say if DeLonge had gotten them straight from Howe or through someone else.
It is unclear if this $35,000 was related to the funds previously set aside for ETI’s work on metamaterials. The 2019 SEC filing had also described the items in question as “Bismuth/Magnesium-Zinc metal” and “Aluminum,” raising questions about just what TTSA had actually purchased.
Earlier this month, Luis Elizondo, TTSA’s Director of Global Security & Special Programs, went on Fox News‘ “Tucker Carlson Tonight” and said that the organization was already conducting tests on these objects. Reports in the past have identified Elizondo as the head of the U.S. Military’s still-murky Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) program, which explored various UAP sightings, but subsequent information has called his exact relationship to the program into question.
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It is also worth noting that the 2018 SEC filing said that TTSA’s Aerospace Division Director, Justice, who is now managing the organization’s end of the CRADA with the Army, was also supposed to be monitoring ETI’s performance on the materials analysis and beamed energy propulsion projects. ETI’s founder and current company President is Harold “Hal” Puthoff, Ph.D, who is also TTSA’s Vice President Science & Technology.
Puthoff is well known for conducting work into the paranormal under contract to the Central Intelligence Agency and Defense Intelligence Agency, including on remote viewing, during the 1970s and 1980s. He also has connections to the now-defunct National Institute for Discovery Science, or NIDSci, which explored things such as UFO sightings, extraterrestrials, and other fringe topics, including Skinwalker Ranch. Nevada real estate mogul and hotelier Robert Bigelow, also renowned for his interest in UFOs and paranormal phenomena, was NIDSci’s founder. Bigelow had also bought Skinwalker Ranch, using it for a time as a sort of paranormal research laboratory, but sold it, at least publicly, to a company called Adamantium Holdings in 2016.
Bigelow Aerospace notably conducted work under contract for AATIP’s predecessor, the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP). It has since emerged that AAWSAP, via Bigelow Aerospace, had overseen the production of numerous written study reports on advanced technology, including virtually all of the topics mentioned in the TTSA press release regarding the CRADA. ETI received contracts to write reports under the AAWSAP program, with Puthoff and Eric Davis, Ph.D., another company employee, authoring them, something The War Zone has covered in detail in the past. Some of the reports that have emerged publicly so far are little more than literature reviews and at least one was on a topic that a major scientific body advising the U.S. government had already deemed to be junk science.
Diagram from a report titled “Traversable Wormholes, Stargates, and Negative Energy,” that ETI’s Eric Davis wrote under contract to AAWSAP.
So, is the Army going to be working with TTSA to investigate the properties of the metamaterials it claims to have acquired over the years, including from purported UFOs, and whether they may have any potential U.S. military applications? It’s unfortunately hard to say for sure at this point, though there are certainly indications that this is the case.
It’s true that the Army is getting this cooperation for free, but we still don’t know the motivations behind it or what the service thinks TTSA actually has to offer. It does come at a time when the U.S. Navy has also been sponsoring seemingly fantastical patent applications for inventions such as compact fusion reactors and room temperature superconductors. DeLonge has his own curious and somewhat unexplained connections to the U.S. government and TTSA is made up of a curious group of decorated insiders from the military-industrial complex and the intelligence services.
In addition, it certainly helps raise the profile of Tom DeLonge’s organization, which was also at the center of a major History Channel mini-series called “Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation,” earlier this year. For years now, the organization has been trying to raise millions of dollars in investments. In July they circulated an announcement about a new round of stock offers worth up to $30 million in total.
We have already reached out to the Army to hopefully get more information about this cooperative deal with TTSA and just what it is looking to actually get out of it.
Source: The Drive
What We Know About The Army Teaming Up With Rockstar Tom DeLonge’s UFO Research Company
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/30481/what-we-know-about-the-army-teaming-up-with-rockstar-tom-delonges-ufo-research-company
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SAN DIEGO, Oct. 17, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science (TTSA) announced today a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command to advance TTSA’s materiel and technology innovations in order to develop enhanced capabilities for Army ground vehicles.
TTSA’s technology solutions, which leverage developments in material science, space-time metric engineering, quantum physics, beamed energy propulsion, and active camouflage, have the potential to enhance survivability and effectiveness of multiple Army systems. TTSA will share its discoveries with Ground Vehicle System Center (GVSC) and Ground Vehicle Survivability and Protection (GVSP) and the U.S. Army shall provide laboratories, expertise, support, and resources to help characterize the technologies and its applications.
“Our partnership with TTSA serves as an exciting, non-traditional source for novel materials and transformational technologies to enhance our military ground system capabilities,” said Dr. Joseph Cannon of U.S. Army Futures Command. “At the Army’s Ground Vehicle Systems Center, we look forward to this partnership and the potential technical innovations forthcoming.”
Steve Justice, TTSA’s COO and Aerospace Division Director added that, “This cooperative research agreement brings additional, critically important expertise that is necessary to advance the state-of-the-art in both our near and long-term technology areas of study. While the Army has specific military performance interests in the research, much of the work is expected to have dual-use application in support of TTSA’s path to commercialization and public benefit mission.”
About The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command: The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) provides the research, engineering, and analytical expertise to deliver capabilities that enable the Army to deter and, when necessary, decisively defeat any adversary now and in the future. The CCDC vision is to be the scientific and technological foundation of the Future Force Modernization Enterprise through world-leading research, development, engineering, and analysis.
About To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science: To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science (TTSA) is a public benefit corporation that was established in 2017 as a revolutionary collaboration between academia, industry and pop culture to advance society’s understanding of scientific phenomena and its technological implications. TTSA works to achieve their mission via an entertainment, science and aerospace consortium that engages with global citizens to investigate the outer edges of science and unconventional thinking to push human knowledge and ultimately, our collective capability forward.
Source: CISION PR Newswire
To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science Announces CRADA with The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command to Advance Materiel and Technology Innovations
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/to-the-stars-academy-of-arts–science-announces-crada-with-the-us-army-combat-capabilities-development-command-to-advance-materiel-and-technology-innovations-300940211.html
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Management Update
In 2018, the first full year of the company’s operations, we focused on infrastructure and personnel while pursuing significant research and development projects related to the company’s mission. We have continued to grow our business and have been able to achieve the following during Interim 2019:
· Began the process of creating actionable plans to progress on some of its near-term goals, namely Beamed Energy Propulsion Launch System (“BELS”) and Space-Time Metric Engineering (“STME”).
· Continued to strengthen relationships and strategic discussions with potential U.S. government clientele and partners
· Continued mainstream press efforts surrounding credible eye witness accounts of unidentified aerial phenomena, including active fighter pilots going on record for the New York Times.
· Our effort to educate the U.S. government and policymakers on the Hill allowed for the first official Department of Defense policy for reporting unidentified aerial phenomena to be drafted within the Navy, with the Navy acknowledging the need for pilots to report unidentified aircraft.
· Our company, its mission and research achieved high awareness, visibility and reach with the U.S. broadcast of History’s docuseries Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation featuring key TTSA cast members, which had over a million viewers per episode.
· The acquisition of metamaterials for the A.D.A.M. (Acquisition & Data Analysis of Materials) Research Project with the goal of expanding the scope of scientific evaluations to determine function and possible applications with partners.
· Our publishing department released exclusive, advanced limited editions of Sekret Machines Vol. 2: Man of the Gods, Man and War Series, as well as the advanced collector’s edition of Cathedrals of Glass: Valkrys Wakes.
· With the announcement of a new Angles & Airwaves song and tour, an entire new line of Angels & Airwaves soft goods and accessories were released to our website.
· The To The Stars ecommerce store had an increase of 7% gross sales.
· The Strange Times TV series began development at TBS.
· The animated short film Who Here Knows Who Took My Clothes was released on Mashable.com to promote the children’s book of the same title.
· We conducted a successful restructuring of the company’s capitalization table and were able to secure debt forgiveness of a portion of our debt obligations.
During Interim 2019, the company released the following new products and services:
· The VAULT database (formerly the Community of Interest), an artificial intelligence-empowered database to be housed in SCOUT (Signature Collection of Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Tracker), which is the company’s initiative to build the world’s most comprehensive intelligence tool for collecting, analyzing, and reporting unidentified aerial phenomena. Development and commercialization strategies have been created and discussions with potential partners are ongoing.
· SCOUT, which is the company’s interactive public mobile application that will facilitate real-time uploads, downloads, alerting, and analysis for contribution to The VAULT. The company has acquired an existing mobile app for the interactive-module and has completed iOS development and is working on the Android version, both estimated to be released in late Fall 2019.
· We Don’t Need to Whisper. Original full-length album on two special edition colored vinyl records was released in April 2019.
· I-Empire. Original full-length album on two special edition colored vinyl records was released in April 2019.
· A+E’s History Channel, ‘Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation’ six-part docuseries premiered on May 31, 2019. The company allowed its personnel to be key cast members in the series.
· Angels & Airwaves released their new single ‘Rebel Girl’ and announced their first tour in seven years for Fall 2019 on April 30, 2019. In response, the Entertainment Division expended its Angels & Airwaves merchandise offering due to the increase in visibility and traffic from band activity.
· The company entered into a collaborative marketing agreement with TruClear Global to cooperate on joint development projects as well as to provide advanced technology solutions to U.S. government clientele.
Projects Planned
We plan to continue to pursue the above listed projects and initiatives. Assuming that the maximum amount of financing sought in our current Regulation A offering is raised, over the next 12 months the company intends to:
· Continue pre-production planning for the feature film ‘Monsters of California.’ This includes development plans for expanding the intellectual property into additional media formats and merchandise.
· Continue with the plans to publish ‘Sekret Machines’ Non-Fiction Series, Book 2: Man on Oct 29th 2019. This book is the stunning continuation of an intensive study of UFO phenomena in which the hard science, technology, and the human mind are explored as they relate to our world.
· Invest in expanding the To The Stars entertainment merchandise brand.
· Leverage our exposure from the TV docu-series, working title Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation, to further our educational efforts about unidentified aerial phenomenon on a global scale.
· Invest in content communications to educate the public about TTSA’s products and mission.
· Launch UNIDENTIFIED apparel on our ecommerce site through a merchandise licensing agreement with A+E Networks.
· Launch the SCOUT mobile application to expand the reach and collection of data for The VAULT.
· Continue our effort to educate and influence policy at all levels of the Department of Defense and U.S. government in order to further research studies of unidentified aerial phenomenon.
· Complete the evaluation stage and begin the development phase on the BELS and STME projects.
· Expand the scope of our efforts to collect and analyze materials under the A.D.A.M. Research Project that could lead to discoveries and commercial applications.
· Focus on potential business development opportunities and seek out commercially viable products that take advantage of our extensive in-house relationships and expertise that could lead to revenue growth in every division of the business.
We would need to seek more funds to complete these projects after 12 months.
The company is currently evaluating different funding mechanisms, including additional corporate structuring, to allow the Entertainment, Science and Aerospace Divisions to accelerate progress, scale and expand, including institutional monies, foundations, private equity and angel investment.
Source: SEC Edgar archives
SEC FORM 1-SA filed by To the Stars Academy for the fiscal semiannual period ended: June 30, 2019
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1710274/000114420419046318/tv530141_1sa.ht
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Source: company website
To The Stars… Academy of Arts & Sciences
https://dpo.tothestarsacademy.com/
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