Greenville, Texas
BIG SAFARI facility · Blue Devil II GFE available for other programmes
Q4 FY2012 destination of stopped Blue Devil II airship equipment, including government-furnished components. FY2014 USAF budget language: components available for other projects. Later inventory, including March 2014, is not published.
USAF PB2014 and DODIG-2013-128 place the packed hardware in a 645 AESG-managed facility here. This is a reuse node for BIG SAFARI, not a junkyard. Residual parts were absorbed into other Air Force programmes. Whether any of that GFE was issued onward — onto Gorgon Stare, Orion, or another host — by 8 March 2014 is still open.
Sources
- DODIG-2013-128; USAF PB2014
Related
Blue Devil I / II
Operational Block 1 WAAS + SIGINT · Block 2 residuals to BIG SAFARI
Where did Blue Devil residual components go?
Blue Devil II stopped; hardware to Greenville
Payload stop 4 Jan 2012 · pack-out May 2012 · storage Q4 FY2012
645 AESG / BIG SAFARI
USAF rapid acquisition — the office that binds this family
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