“In 2005, Pasternak’s company was one of two to land a $3 million contract from the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, to do preliminary design work on a cargo-carrying airship.”

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/immigrant-engineer-ready-for-zeppelins-to-take-off/

Pasternak’s Worldwide Aeros Corp.

“The Californian company received $50 million (£38 million) from the US Department of Defense to build the prototype.” https://www.wired.co.uk/article/blimps-retake-the-sky

Sky Dragon Surveillance Blimps

“Pasternak was working on a deal to sell a surveillance package to Ukraine, so that its military could keep an eye on the Russians.”

https://www.usubc.org/site/recent-news/helium-dreams-a-new-generation-of-airships-is-born

https://twitter.com/federalistno78/status/1222612166848786432?s=21 https://twitter.com/FederalistNo78/status/1222612166848786432

2014. “Aeros announced a project in Russia looking at using two Aeroscraft to avoid building an access road, resulting in a savings of more than $140M... When you can move equipment...without an ice road, the time and cost savings will be significant...”
https://www.miningandenergy.ca/technology/article/lighter_than_air_helium_airships_can_ship_heavy_cargo_to_remote_areas/

Castle AFB (previous Aero site)

Project Loon

“Google this week launched 30 balloons into the stratosphere in the first step toward creating what it calls a "network in the sky...."

“Using wind data from the NOAA, the balloons are maneuvered...” https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/06/google-flies-internet-balloons-in-stratosphere-for-a-network-in-the-sky/