In 60 seconds
There is no single program. It started as one in 1947, under a control group in the National Security Council, but each service took its own share: the Air Force through Wright-Patterson and later NASIC, the Army through its R&D office and Dugway, the Navy through MITRE and NURO, and the labs through Sandia, Los Alamos and DOE. After 1978 the silos hardened. Gerb's point is that they barely cooperate, so the Army and the Air Force each tried to copy the same cloaking without telling the other, and a story that blames only the contractors misses most of it.
The claim, in our words · Gerb's reading, across 22 of our records
“Each service runs its own legacy program, stovepiped from the others, with no authority over all of them.”
How it branched
Each line is a branch, named at its end. Dots are the key moments below.
One program
A shared start under the NSC; the services take their shares.
Key moments
Silos
Review scatters the control group; each service keeps its own.
Key moments
No one in charge
NASIC, Dugway, Crane and the labs work apart, sometimes on the same thing.
Key moments
All 22 events, branch by branch, in the Workspace →