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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.
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.
FY2013 NDAA Sec. 927 — integrated SIGINT / WAMI plan
Congressional Record 12 Dec 2012 · ISR Task Force plan due 1 Jan 2013
Statute required a plan for operationally integrated SIGINT able to detect, track and precisely geolocate high-band devices and immediately cue imagery. Named Army Guardrail / ARGUS A160, USAF Blue Moon QRC and DARPA WAND. Consult NSA and USSOCOM.
Blue Devil, MAGIC, Orion, BIG SAFARI — 2014 window
Briefing collages, 18 September 2026
Nic Moneypenny published investigation collages placing Blue Devil (including an egg-shaped airship), MAGIC, Aurora Orion, BIG SAFARI, Lockheed and DARPA in the same 2013–14 spending window as MH370, with Freescale’s last gyro presentation among the plates.
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.
273 records in the file.