2026-10-05 New Energy Times (HTML copy of the DIA LENR report)
Site: https://newenergytimes.com/v2/news/2009/DIALENRReport.shtml . New Energy Times is a LENR news site run by journalist Steven Krivit [memory, high], a party with an interest in the field's coverage. Bears on Claim 2 (DIA 2009 report: its sources and provenance).
Searched
Google "DIA-08-0911-003" (also returned copies on Wikimedia Commons, Stanford large.stanford.edu, lenr-canr.org, and an AFCEA SIGNAL article); then this page.
Found
- The report's origin: a workshop. The page states: "The DIA report was based on a workshop held on Aug. 4 and 5, 2009 at SPAWAR Pacific, in San Diego, Ca." and lists the presenters and talks [web, New Energy Times' statement; the DIA report itself does not say this]: Francis Tanzella (SRI); Michael McKubre (SRI; EPRI-sponsored studies; replication studies); Mitchell Swartz (many "LANR PHUSOR" talks, including "Heat after Death"); Pamela Mosier-Boss (20-year history of Pd/D co-deposition); Patrick McDaniel ("Reactions with 24 MeV Alphas", "Characterizing Nuclear Events in D-Pd Co-Deposition", "Widom-Larsen Theory"); Lawrence Forsley ("Mechanisms to Increase Nuclear Interaction Cross-Sections Without Breaking Physics"); Peter Hagelstein (MIT; SRI loading model; theory of excess heat); Wayne McGinnis (room-temperature superconductivity in loaded Pd-H). How it bears: it explains why 16 of the 54 notes trace to contributors (deep/DIA): the report's evidence base was largely a researchers' briefing to the agency. It also names three people (Tanzella, Swartz, Hagelstein) whose talks fed the report but who are not listed as contributors. The report's notes 22, 30, 44 and 45 ("Briefings presented at Navy SPAWAR San Diego, LENR meeting, 4-5 August 2009") agree with this account.
- Coordination line. The HTML copy carries "Coordinated with DIA/DRI, CPT, DWO, DOE/IN, US Navy SPAWAR/Pacific and U.S. NSWC/Dahlgren, VA." and "Prepared by: Beverly Barnhart, DIA/DI, Defense Warning Office" [web]. DOE/IN (DOE intelligence office) is a coordinating party; whether the coordination line is in the project's PDF should be checked against the PDF (not re-read in this run).
- Authenticity. The page reproduces an email of 23 Nov 2009 from "DIA Public Affairs" replying to a Wikipedia editor ("enric naval") who asked whether DIA-08-0911-003 was real: "This is a DIA document." [web; email as posted by New Energy Times, not independently verified].
- Full text of the 54 endnotes as on the page; they agree with deep/DIA's count of contributor-linked notes (e.g. notes 50 and 52 are "Personal correspondence" from McKubre and Forsley).
Official follow-up
No DIA follow-up report was found in this run. A later US government action in the same field, found by Google snippet only: ARPA-E announced on 17 Feb 2023 "$10 million in funding for eight projects working to determine whether low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR) could be the basis for..." energy technology (Exploratory Topic, announced 13 Sep 2022) [web snippets: https://arpa-e.energy.gov (news item of Feb 17, 2023); ARPA-E FY2022 Annual Report]. Not opened; see sites.md.