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19 organisation records
645 AESG / BIG SAFARI
USAF rapid acquisition and special-mission integration
Executor of MAGIC. Also owned Gorgon Stare and took Blue Devil II into storage at Greenville, Texas. Presence makes the payload/PED trail more important than the Orion airframe alone.
Aurora Flight Sciences
HALE/MALE autonomy house · Orion prime
Founded 1989. Chiron optionally piloted aircraft 1996. Global Hawk structures since 1995. Centaur optionally piloted DA42 from 2010. AACUS autonomous helicopter demo February 2014. ALIAS is later drop-in copilot work.
Australian Transport Safety Bureau
Lead of the 2014–2017 southern Indian Ocean search
Drew and exhausted the 120,000 km² underwater box. Operational-search report is the engineering baseline for later Ocean Infinity boxes.
CSIRO
Debris-drift modelling
Reverse-drifted the Réunion flaperon and later debris to weight 7th-arc latitudes.
DGA-TA / French judiciary
Flaperon examination, Toulouse
Confirmed the Réunion flaperon as 9M-MRO. Part remains in French judicial custody.
DSTG
Defence Science and Technology Group · Bayesian path analysis
Produced the posterior along the 7th arc used to site the official underwater box.
ICAO
GADSS tracking standards after MH370
15-minute position reporting in normal flight; faster in distress. The regulatory aftershock.
Inmarsat
Classic Aero I-3 · Perth Ground Earth Station
The communications company that became the principal witness to MH370’s last six hours.
Joint Agency Coordination Centre
Australia · southern Indian Ocean search coordination
Stood up to run the multinational southern search after the SATCOM pivot.
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
ISIS systems integrator, Palmdale
Prime on ISIS Phase 3. Confirmed industrial role; no MH370 collection evidence.
Malaysia Airlines
Operator of MH370 / 9M-MRO
Declared the flight missing at 23:24 UTC while the SDU was still a live Inmarsat terminal.
Ocean Infinity
Private seabed search · 2018 and 2025–2027
No-find-no-fee searches along the 7th arc. 2018 ~112,000 km². 2025–26: 7,571 km² of a 15,000 km² box. Contract extended to 30 June 2027.
Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems
ISIS radar · MTS for USAF UAVs · large classified SAS bookings
Radar on ISIS; MTS-B is an Orion payload lead. 2013 SAS booked $210m MTS for USAF UAVs and $862m classified. Those totals do not establish an MH370/MAGIC contract.
Voice370 / next-of-kin advocates
Family groups pressing for continued search and disclosure
Public advocates including Grace Nathan have argued for resumed underwater search and timely family briefings.
ISIS
Integrated Sensor Is Structure · DARPA/USAF airship radar
Same PE as MAGIC. Lockheed integrator, Raytheon radar, ~$400–462m. Stratospheric airship with very large low-power radar. Confirmed programme; no evidence of MH370 collection.
MAGIC
Medium Altitude Global ISR and Communications
USAF programme built around Aurora Orion. Objective: multi-day persistence at 20,000 ft with ≥1,000 lb ISR payload. Executed by 645 AESG / BIG SAFARI. Confirmed programme; MH370 link not established.
Blue Devil I / II
Multi-INT ISR · BIG SAFARI ecosystem · cancelled airship
Block I: King Air C90s with WAMI + SIGINT + FMV in Afghanistan. Block II: same sensor idea on a 5–7 day airship; stopped 2012; hardware to Greenville. Residual parts absorbed into other Air Force programmes.
Aurora Orion RPA
Twin-diesel MALE UAS · China Lake first flight 24 Aug 2013
Airframe for MAGIC. First flight carried no mission system. December 2014: 80-hour remotely controlled flight with 1,000 lb ballast. Confirmed air vehicle; payload stack for March 2014 remains open.
Gorgon Stare
645 AESG wide-area airborne surveillance for MQ-9
Increment 2 (ARGUS-derived EO + Exelis IR) deployed to Afghanistan in early 2014 and reached IOC. 2010 Aviation Week said it could potentially be carried on MAGIC. Organisationally adjacent; no confirmed Orion installation.