Pentagon's Black Budget Reaches Record Levels

I'm sure this will lead to all kinds of wild speculation regarding what type of crazy sci-fi tech the Pentagon is working on this year.

I say BRING IT ON!

Are they working harder to reverse-engineer alien technologies, gearing up HAARP for world conquest or maybe something simple like buying more $50,000 toilet seats? (who wouldn't want one of those?)

Pentagon’s Black Budget Tops $56 Billion

The Defense Department just released its king-sized, $708 billion budget for the next fiscal year. Much of the proposed spending is fairly detailed — noting exactly how many helicopters the Pentagon plans to buy and how many troops it plans on playing. But about $56 billion goes simply to “classified programs,” or to projects known only by their code names, like “Chalk Eagle” and “Link Plumeria.” That’s the Pentagon’s black budget.

Cobbling together this round figure for the military’s hush-hush projects is easier than it seems. The Pentagon’s separate ledgers for operations, research and procurement all contain line items for “classified programs.” Add those to the nonsensically-named programs, and you’ve got yourself an estimate for the Pentagon’s secretive efforts.

Last year, that budget grew to more than $50 billion – ”the largest-ever sum,” according to Aviation Week’s Bill Sweetman, a longtime black-budget seer. A few more billion were added for wartime operations, for a total of $54 billion. This year’s total would be $2 billion higher, a 3.7 percent increase.

Not all of the Pentagon’s secret projects got a budget boost, however. Funds for the Cobra Judy missile-watching radar system were cut nearly in half, from $61 million to $36.5 million. Similar, money for the Navy’s Link Evergreen project was cut to $41 million, from $123 million.


Wired.com

With code names like “Chalk Eagle” and “Link Plumeria” this stuff has got to be good!

What the heck is a Plumeria anyway?

And what is it linking to?


[edit on 2-2-2010 by FortAnthem]

Well, according to this link, both CHALK EAGLE and LINK PLUMERIA
are, and I quote:

0603576N CHALK EAGLE (tactical program)
0603748N LINK PLUMERIA (tactical program)

and this info comes to us as

all of the "leaks" above were extracted from unclassified military documents.

edited (again) to add:

see also:

www.abovetopsecret.com...
[edit on 2-2-2010 by Beamish]

[edit on 2-2-2010 by Beamish]

Plumeria as a tactical program. Hmmm...

Plumeria flowers are most fragrant at night in order to lure sphinx moths to pollinate them. The flowers have no nectar, and simply dupe their pollinators. The moths inadvertently pollinate them by transferring pollen from flower to flower in their fruitless search for nectar.

Wiki link

So, could it be a hollow promise with which to draw in colaborators/spies and use them as mules for "pollen" - false information etc. - with which they can supply to an enemy?

Pulmeria=disinformation?

Just surmising...

Ok, found this. Just Googled it...

Chalk Eagle is a classified U.S. Navy advanced development demonstration and validation program believed to involve surface naval warfare tactical reconnaissance and surveillance.

Link



[edit on 2-2-2010 by Beamish]

Originally posted by Beamish
Plumeria as a tactical program. Hmmm...

Plumeria flowers are most fragrant at night in order to lure sphinx moths to pollinate them. The flowers have no nectar, and simply dupe their pollinators. The moths inadvertently pollinate them by transferring pollen from flower to flower in their fruitless search for nectar.

Wiki link

So, could it be a hollow promise with which to draw in colaborators/spies and use them as mules for "pollen" - false information etc. - with which they can supply to an enemy?

Pulmeria=disinformation?

Just surmising...

It could also be a mean a huge waste of time and money!

I hear the governments pretty good at that.

They just waste more money on different methods to kill people. This is what you get when the Military is running the country.

They are all psychopaths that are in LOVE with killing people.

It's like the movie Hostel and Saw.

Link Plumeria USN, tactical RDT&E program

Chalk Eagle USN, tactical RDT&E program

who knows, maybe the plan is that they come up with mysterious sounding names like "CHALK EAGLE" and "LINK PLUMERIA" and have them as black projects so that no one knows that the money is really being spent on hookers and beer and partys way down in area 51 showing the little grey dudes a good time and getting them laid???