GAO-22-105357's Figure 5 extends the FY2019–2021 OT consortia breakdown past the top categories to the full 12-CMO accounting — none of it fringe physics
claim-gao-2022-ot-consortia-breakdown-shows-conventional-categories-not-fringe-physics documents the top three technology-area categories GAO found in its FY2019–2021 breakdown of DoD's consortia-based Other Transaction obligations. GAO-22-105357's body letter continues past those three: "...$1.3 billion in space; and $1.0 billion in command, control, and communications consortia (see fig. 5)." Figure 5's accessible data table (pp. 22–23) itemizes the roughly $24.3 billion total by CMO and consortium. Under Advanced Technology International ($19.1B), eight further named technology-area consortia follow the four largest: countering weapons of mass destruction ($0.765B), spectrum ($0.593B), medical technology ($0.535B — distinct from the larger $8.0B medical defense consortium), undersea technology ($0.220B), information warfare ($0.203B), naval surface ($0.087B), shipbuilding research ($0.035B), and vertical lift ($0.010B). The remaining CMOs add nine more named rows: Consortium Management Group ($1.6B — command, control, communications $1.0B; a combined command-control-communications/energy-environment-demilitarization award $0.334B; energy, environment, and demilitarization $0.140B; naval aviation $0.137B), National Security Technology Accelerator ($1.2B — spectrum and trusted systems $0.630B; training and readiness $0.407B; space $0.166B; energy $0.010B), and System of Systems Consortium ($0.967B — system of systems $0.590B; sensors and communications $0.377B). A final $1.3 billion row aggregates eight other CMOs, which the table's footnote names (the Army itself, Applied Research Associates, Battelle Memorial Institute, Defense Automotive Technology Consortium, MoveAmerica, National Advanced Mobility Consortium, National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, and Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station) without per-consortium dollars. GAO's own text puts the full accounting at 12 CMOs representing 28 consortia.
Roughly twenty named technology areas across the full table, largest to smallest, and every one is a conventional area of defense acquisition — medicine, weapons, aircraft, spacecraft, communications, counter-WMD, spectrum, undersea systems, information warfare, ships, vertical-lift aircraft, energy, training, and manufacturing. None references antigravity, exotic propulsion, or any comparable fringe-physics domain, extending at the primary the same qualitative conclusion the top-three figures already supported.
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“$8.0 billion in medical defense (primarily for COVID-19 vaccine development); $5.0 billion in armaments; $2.6 billion in aviation and missiles; $1.3 billion in space; and $1.0 billion in command, control, and communications consortia (see fig. 5).”
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