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645 AESG / BIG SAFARI
USAF rapid acquisition — the office that binds this family
645 AESG / BIG SAFARI ran specialised rapid-development ISR. It executed MAGIC, developed Gorgon Stare, and took Blue Devil equipment into a facility it managed at Greenville, Texas. That is the documented organisational centre of this technology family, not a coincidence of names.
Angel Fire
Wide-area airborne surveillance · lineage into Blue Devil Block 1
USAF/SOCOM WAAS system. Congressional documentation describes Blue Devil Block 1 as integrating Angel Fire-derived wide-area imagery with signals intelligence on manned aircraft. Confirmed as the WAAS ancestor in this family, not as an MH370 collector.
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.
USAF 303rd AESW
Named MAGIC transition organisation in OSD PB2012
OSD planned to provide MAGIC core technologies to the 303rd Aeronautical Systems Wing for further development of a deployable long-endurance UAS. Confirmed as a named office; later 645 AESG / BIG SAFARI execution is a separate fact.
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 endurance-ISR programme. Air vehicle: Aurora Orion. Office: 645 AESG / BIG SAFARI — the same rapid-acquisition group that ran Gorgon Stare and took Blue Devil residuals. Confirmed as a multi-day ISR platform in that family. A specific MH370 operation is not established and is not ruled out.
Blue Devil I / II
Operational Block 1 WAAS + SIGINT · Block 2 residuals to BIG SAFARI
Block 1 was operational: manned aircraft carrying Angel Fire-derived wide-area imagery integrated with SIGINT. Block 2, the airship, was terminated — but its equipment, including GFE, was packed and sent to a BIG SAFARI facility in Greenville, Texas, available for other programmes. The technology did not vanish with the airship.
DARPA WAND
Wide Area Network Detection · coincident WAMI + RF
Live-fly WAMI and RF geolocation fusion in 2012, SOCOM transition, Trident Spectre demonstration. Named in FY2013 NDAA Sec. 927. Part of the overlapping multi-INT ecosystem around Blue Devil and Gorgon Stare. Not shown as an MH370 collector.
Aurora Orion RPA
Twin-diesel MALE UAS · China Lake first flight 24 Aug 2013
Selected air vehicle for MAGIC: a multi-day, medium-altitude remotely piloted ISR platform designed to carry multiple sensors. First flight (24 Aug 2013) had no mission system; the December 2014 endurance record carried ballast. Those two flights do not decide what was fitted on sorties 2–17, including March 2014.
Gorgon Stare
BIG SAFARI wide-area surveillance · podded, not MQ-9-only
Developed through BIG SAFARI. Increment 2 is ARGUS-derived EO plus Exelis IR. Congress treated the podded/open architecture as integrable on more than one aircraft type. MQ-9 is the documented host; an Orion fit by 8 March 2014 is open. 2013 OSD figure: 2 fps, not 6.
CyberSecurity Malaysia
National cyber agency · publicly described the 9 March intrusion in August 2014
Confirmed. Agency under the then Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation. CEO Amirudin Abdul Wahab is the named source for the 9 March spear-phish of investigation officials. Digital forensics support to the affected departments; work with police and Interpol.
Lockheed Martin Compact Fusion Reactor
Public Skunk Works programme · Thomas McGuire · not an MH370 finding
Confirmed as a public Lockheed Skunk Works fusion project, discussed openly around 2014, with patents including US9947420 (magnetic-field plasma confinement; filing family 2 April 2014). Quiet Exodus treats it as the power core of a clandestine spacetime platform. That leap is the thesis, not the patent.