---
title: "Harry Reid"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Harry Reid"
aliases: ["Sen. Harry Reid","Senator Reid"]
first_seen: "2026-07-26T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program","Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program (AATIP)","Defense Appropriations Acts (FY2008, FY2010)","Special Access Program"]
---


Then-Senate Majority Leader (D-NV) who, per AARO's 2024 historical-record report, directed the Fiscal Year 2008 and 2010 Defense Appropriations Acts funding that established AAWSAP/AATIP, and who in a 24 June 2009 letter unsuccessfully sought to have the program elevated to Special Access Program status. He is the vault's clearest link between named congressional action and the AAWSAP/AATIP program's funding and institutional trajectory.

## References
- [[claim-aawsap-22m-funded-via-fy2008-fy2010-defense-appropriations-acts]]
- [[claim-reid-2009-sap-request-for-aawsap-declined-by-lynn-per-clapper]]