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AppealedALT-2026-0033DIA · Defense Intelligence Agency

DIA briefing materials produced for the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program

Under administrative appeal.

Statutory clock

218 business days overdue

Perfected Sep 23, 2025

20 business days allowed · 5 U.S.C. § 552

20 business days from perfection to determination; 10-day extension for unusual circumstances. Expedited processing determination within 10 calendar days.

The records sought

Briefing slides, read-ahead packages and transmittal memoranda produced by or for the Defense Intelligence Agency in support of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, 2007–2012.

Date range: 1 January 2007 – 31 December 2012

Why it was asked

The programme's own reference list names thirty-eight products. Five have surfaced. This asks for the transmittals, which are administrative records and hard to withhold in full.

Timeline

  1. Quorum reached — $2,689 from 87 backers

    Docket

  2. Handed to the print vendor — Certified + electronic return receipt

    Dispatch

  3. Printed

    Carrier

  4. Accepted by USPS at Kansas City MO

    Carrier

  5. In transit — Washington DC Distribution Center

    Carrier

  6. Delivered

    Carrier

  7. Signed for by DIA mailroom

    Carrier

  8. Acknowledged — tracking FOIA-00382-2026

    Agency

  9. Statutory deadline passed with no determination

    Agency

  10. Follow-up sent — first chase

    Agency

  11. Follow-up sent — second chase

    Agency

  12. Follow-up sent — third chase

    Agency

  13. Disposition → Constructive denial

    Agency

  14. Administrative appeal filed

    Escalation

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