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Northrop Grumman and TRW legacy programs vol. 2 (UAP Gerb)

UAP Gerb vol. 2 traces Northrop Grumman and TRW corporate lineage, IRAD funding practices and alleged UFO legacy-program links.

Claims in this source

Each claim is graded on its own; this source is not graded.

ClaimVerdictAtRelation
Fouche said Northrop was core R&D partner on the TR-3BUnproven00:11:10reports
Stansel named Ruppelt as Kingman coordinating personnelUnproven00:19:15reports
Inman said CIA's Hineman had first-hand UFO crash-retrieval experienceUnproven00:20:49reports
Innovation Systems and Space Technologies merged into Space Systems in 2020Unproven00:34:58asserts
Northrop Grumman acquired Orbital ATK in 2018Documented00:34:58asserts
Northrop is one of three contractors at Air Force Plant 42 with classified RDT&EUnproven00:37:06asserts
TRW bought BDM International in December 1997Documented00:44:21asserts
O'Sullivan joined the board of PeratonUnproven01:40:03asserts
Christopher Mellon was Special Assistant to SecDef for Intelligence Policy 1997-98Unproven01:48:27asserts
DoD lets contractors recover IRAD as allowable indirect costs tied to DoD interestDocumented01:56:17asserts
TRW ran five separate IRAD cost schemes between 1990 and 1997Unproven02:09:20asserts
GAO investigated TRW in 1989 for misclassifying contract costs as IRADUnproven02:09:50asserts
Johns Hopkins APL is a Navy-sponsored UARCUnproven02:24:26asserts
Reported 42 underground levels at Tejon RCSUnproven02:37:27reports
Northrop purchased the 1,415-acre Tejon RCS land after leasing itUnproven02:38:28asserts
Tejon RCS property sold to EDF Power Solutions in November 2024Unproven02:40:01asserts
Grusch said Clapper and O'Sullivan controlled elements of crash retrievalUnproven03:16:16reports
Stephanie O'Sullivan began her career at TRW around 1982Unproven03:16:47asserts
Dempsey went from ODNI to Northrop Grumman government affairs VPUnproven03:17:50asserts
Eric Davis said a TRW woman was a primary source on legacy topicsUnproven03:21:30reports

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ToRoleYearsVerdictSource
Northrop Grummansubject—youtube.com

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