DOW-UAP-D130, AAWSAP DIRD, Technological Approaches to Controlling External Devices, March 2010

Department of War · 3/23/10 · Las Vegas, Nevada · Document

DOW-UAP-D130, AAWSAP DIRD, Technological Approaches to Controlling External Devices, March 2010 is indexed as a Department of War record with incident date 3/23/10 and location Las Vegas, Nevada. This document is a Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIRD), a technical reference format used by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) to capture baseline knowledge on a specific topic for later analytic use. DIRDs are best understood as reference and synthesis products rather than as original research. It is one of 38 DIRDs produced under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP) between 2009 and 2011. Because AAWSAP s scope permitted a broad range of supporting topics, not every DIRD in the series directly concerns aerospace systems or future threat assessment. The following summary reflects the DIRD s scope and framing at the time of writing and should not be read as implying current validation of the concepts discussed. This DIRD surveys brain-machine interface technologies intended to allow users to control external devices without conventional manual controls, and it evaluates both noninvasive and invasive approaches for turning neural or related physiological signals into usable commands. The report reviews the underlying neural signals, distinguishes between openand closed-loop control systems, and examines technologies including scalp-based electrical recording, magnetic and imaging-based methods, and implanted cortical interfaces, with particular attention to bandwidth, response time, signal quality, and practical usability. It concludes that, in the near term, the most practical systems are likely to be noninvasive electrical approaches that draw heavily on muscle and neural signals, while longer-term high-bandwidth control would likely require more advanced invasive interfaces capable of robust two-way communication with individual neurons. The document presents thought-based control of external devices as a research field with plausible assistive and specialized applications, while emphasizing that naturalistic, high-performance control remained constrained by major technical and physiological limits. Redactions have been made to protect the identity of eyewitnesses, the location of government facilities, or potentially sensitive information about military sites not related to UAP. No redactions have been made to any files released under President Trump's directive concerning information about the nature or existence of any encounter reported as a UAP or related phenomena.

Notable / anomalous element

• Electrophysiological recordings linearly on the light intensity. (native PDF text, page 27)
• Optobionic vision--a new genetically enhanced light on retinal prosthesis. (native PDF text, page 36)
• OPTICAL STIMULATION OF ACTION POTENTIALS A final invasive technology that utilizes light to gate action potentials shows promise (Reference 59). (native PDF text, page 29)
• In this simple arrangement, the reticular neurons acted as a processing element that determined the closed-loop response of the neuro-robotic system to a source of light. (native PDF text, page 26)

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• UNCLASSIFIED//F8R 8FFl6i,t.k Miili Ot!P X Technological Approaches to Controlling External Devices in the Absence of Limb-Operated Interfaces Prepared by: Acquisition Support Division (DW0-3) Defense Warning Office D irectorate for Analysis Defense Intelligence Agency Author: AAP Person 73 Administrative Note. (native PDF text, page 2)
• This product is one in a series of advanced technology reports produced in FY 2009 under the Defense Intelligence Agency, Defense Warning Office's Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program. (native PDF text, page 2)
• Comments or questions pertaining to l this document should be addressed to!AAP Person 1 AAWSA Program Manager, Defense Intelligence Agency, ATTN: CLAR/DWO-3, Bldg 6000, Washington, DC 20340-5100. ii UNCLASSIFIED/ /FQA &FFIGIAk Wiili,u11a (native PDF text, page 2)
• 1 Indirect Neuronal Signals The BOLD Effect. (native PDF text, page 3)
• 10 Open-Loop Direct Cortical Array Algorithm Modeling. (native PDF text, page 3)
• 11 Closed-Loop Peripheral Arrays Utilizing Visual Feedback. (native PDF text, page 3)
• 14 Chronic Neural Implants and fMRI. (native PDF text, page 3)
• 18 Hybrid Neuro-Robotic Systems for True Closed-Loop BMI. (native PDF text, page 3)

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