Project Halberd

Overview

 * Director: Rupert Ian Coswell


 * Main base location: Alexandria, Virginia.

Basic Detail
Several months after Gerald Ford assumed the presidency, he had put distance between himself and the Hellhounds as he was both unfamiliar with their full purpose after learning of their previous involvements and feared the repercussions of having their existence being found out under his term in office. Henry Kissinger had often agreed that the Hellhounds were likely too dangerous a measure in the long run and might have been better organized an idea had Kennedy taken more care to structure that division better.

Due to Ford's personal conflicts with the Hellhounds, he and Kissinger attempted to formulate a more military-accessible program that would effectively mimic the special weapons R&amp;D program that the Hellhounds had access to. The difference between the programs was that the new program would specialize in powerful, non-lethal weapon alternatives. Provided the program would produce effective enough results in four years, they would attempt phasing out the Hellhounds program with an improved international task force.

Project Halberd launched yet was met with difficulties with the many weapons and vehicle engineers as they would only happen to develop technologies and designs with details consisting of the wholly familiar. They would rarely, if ever, produce anything that would be slightly different from already-existing military instruments that may have already been tried and tested.

Despite the project not particularly meeting with the greatest expectations, the various divisions of the staff had at least managed to create just enough to provide new and insightful ways to improve on military defensive technology.

By the time Ronald Raegan had taken office, he saw to revising their goals due to the more current changes and altered the division's name to 'Blue Forge' to reflect the new ideology.

Divisions

 * Pollux: Alternative weapons engineering. (AWE)
 * Manager: Hassan Paroya


 * Castor: Vehicular designs. (VRM)
 * Manager: Ralph Hodges


 * Halcyon: Foreign engineering development. (FDE)
 * Tacitus: Human advancement applications. (BWP)
 * Regulus: Advanced Miliary applications. (VRT)
 * Division Head: Adrian Nolan


 * Helmsmen: Alternative Law Enforcement. (ALTCOP) (Indefinitely Suspended)
 * Administrator: Rupert Ian Coswell