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Exhibit B NORTHROP GRUMMAN Evidence strongly that someone interfered with my business relationship with Northrop Grumman. Background In 2013 Northrop Grumman Corp (NGC) held contest among its engineers to find promising ‘grass roots’ technology. The winners would receive internal NGC funding for special evaluation study. I was told that about 215 ideas were selected and 15 ideas were selected. My technology- then called IDENTISEIS and now called SEIDARM - was one of the 15 selected for further study. This started a five-year relationship with NGC that included numerous email exchanges, conference calls and a site-visit for a hands-on evaluation of IDENTISIES. (I have not received compensation from NGC during this entire period. No promises were made.) My primary contact was James Stewart who worked at NGC’s Huntsville, Alabama, facility. His work on IDENTISEIS was interrupted for six months while he was deployed to Afghanistan to support NGC’s force protection systems. The special evaluation study led NGC to investigate business opportunities with IDENTISEIS. In time, NGC engineers decided that IDENTISEIS would be a good match with for its radar-controlled camera systems called TASS - Tactical Automated Security System Radar detects human movement that is used to point the camera. However, radar is ineffective in areas with heavy brush and vegetation such as along the Rio Grande River in Texas. IDENTISEIS detects movement without the need for line-of-sight. EMAIL FROM JAMES STEWART, NORTHROP GRUMMAN I just got out of a meeting with Nate Metzger. He has just returned from McAllen Tx border. He surveyed over 28 miles of border with the CBP. He is even more excited about Identiseis after seeing the border. The CBP wants us to deploy ExTASS and TruckTASS to that exact border. Which after seeing the border Nate is convinced that our mobile TASS system will not be that effective. The border is full or sugar cane fields and dense forest. So neither the radar nor the thermal imaging day-night cameras will be much use. Neither can detect or provide and image thru dense foliage. He is further convinced that the place is perfect for BTI’s sensor.

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Exhibit B NORTHROP GRUMMAN

Evidence strongly that someone interfered with my business relationship

with Northrop Grumman. Background

In 2013 Northrop Grumman Corp (NGC) held contest among its engineers to find promising ‘grass roots’ technology. The winners would receive internal NGC funding for special evaluation study. I was told that about 215 ideas were selected and 15 ideas were selected. My technology- then called IDENTISEIS and now called SEIDARM - was one of the 15 selected for further study.

This started a five-year relationship with NGC that included numerous email exchanges, conference calls and a site-visit for a hands-on evaluation of IDENTISIES. (I have not received compensation from NGC during this entire period. No promises were made.)

My primary contact was James Stewart who worked at NGC’s Huntsville, Alabama, facility. His work on IDENTISEIS was interrupted for six months while he was deployed to Afghanistan to support NGC’s force protection systems.

The special evaluation study led NGC to investigate business opportunities with IDENTISEIS.

In time, NGC engineers decided that IDENTISEIS would be a good match with for its radar-controlled camera systems called TASS - Tactical Automated Security System

Radar detects human movement that is used to point the camera. However, radar is ineffective in areas with heavy brush and vegetation such as along the Rio Grande River in Texas. IDENTISEIS detects movement without the need for line-of-sight. EMAIL FROM JAMES STEWART, NORTHROP GRUMMAN

I just got out of a meeting with Nate Metzger. He has just returned from McAllen Tx border. He surveyed over 28 miles of border with the CBP. He is even more excited about Identiseis after seeing the border. The CBP wants us to deploy ExTASS and TruckTASS to that exact border. Which after seeing the border Nate is convinced that our mobile TASS system will not be that effective. The border is full or sugar cane fields and dense forest. So neither the radar nor the thermal imaging day-night cameras will be much use. Neither can detect or provide and image thru dense foliage. He is further convinced that the place is perfect for BTI’s sensor.

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As the record shows, plans for funding the integration of my technology with NGC’s radar camera systems had advanced to the point where a face-to-face meeting was planned to complete final arrangements. The meeting was to be held at the 9th Annual Border Security Expo in Phoenix, Arizona on April 28, 2015. EMAIL TO THE NY TIMES On May 17, 2019 I sent this email report to Times correspondent Simon Romero: Simon; As you have seen, I was working very closely with Northop Grumman for some time. In fact, I invested a lot of money in SEIDARM partly because I was convinced we had a future together. That all came crashing down on April 28, 2015. James Stewart had set up a meeting with a NGC fellow named McConnell (not totally sure of the name) at the Border Expo. Returning to our booth from a tour of the expo, my guys said a fellow had been there from the Northrop Grumman booth and said Mr. McConnell would be at our booth soon.

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I stayed at the booth with Mike and Gregg for more than an hour - but no McConnell. I asked them to go the Northrop booth to try to find McConnell. They returned confused. No one at the Northrop booth could help them.

I then emailed James Stewart at Huntsville and he said he couldn’t reach the NGC people at the expo.

We hung around after the expo closed - no Northrop.

After that date, other than Stewart, all contact with NGC was cut off. Stewart didn’t want to get into the situation.

Early last year Stewart suggested that I take a shot at AFWERX. I took his advice and worked my way into a demo. Seeing that I had been picked for the demo, two PhD NGC engineers showed up and we went from there. I asked one of the engineers what happened at the expo. He would only say that there had been a ‘palace coups’ and two high level managers working on my project were either let go or transferred. Best,

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Glenn SECOND EMAIL SENT TO NY TIMES REGARDING EXPO SENT ON MAY 27, 2019 Simon; It hadn’t caught my eye ‘till now, but Bob Ortega spoke to Mark Borkowski at the same Phoenix border-security expo that found me waiting at the alter for Northrop Grumman. DUMB REMARKS Borkowski told Ortega “There are a zillion things” the drones can do. This is one of the dumbest things I have ever heard a high government official say - and it was to a powerful reporter! Randolph Alles (recently fired by President Trump) "argues that the value of drug seizures involving the drones have outweighed the cost of the Predator B program.” Ortega screwers both Borkowski and Alles in his June 20, 2015 piece. He was exiled to Hawaii soon thereafter. FEELING THE HEAT? The April 2015 expo took place right about the time Borkowski was dishing out millions of dollars for the Integrated Fixed Towers installation at Nogales. He had to know they would never work - and that Spencer and Ortega would know as well. As American Border Patrol, I alone reported on the Nogales IFT deployment - without the power and prestige of a Northrop Grumman partner. Ortega couldn’t - he was in Hawaii. American Border Patrol -- September 13, 2015 A Time for Honest Assessment http://americanborderpatrol.com/15-FEATURES/150913/150913-Feature.html … We encourage Congress and the Governmental Accountability Office to take a close look at the acceptance testing of these Integrated Fixed Towers to make sure they are evaluated using measures of the degree to which they assist in establishing operational control of the border.

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It is time for an honest assessment of border security. Best, Glenn ++++++++++++++++ Is pricey Border Patrol drone program worth the cost? Aerial-surveillance competitors question whether alternatives might do more for less money. Bob Ortega, The Republic | azcentral.com Published 9:53 p.m. MT June 20, 2015 | Updated 11:37 a.m. MT June 21, 2015 CBP leaders insist that the Predator B drones have been a good investment and a useful tool. "We disagree strongly with the OIG," said Mark Borkowski, CBP's assistant commissioner in charge of acquisitions, in response to a question from The Republic at a border-security expo in Phoenix recently. "There are a zillion things" the drones can do, he said. Randolph Alles, the assistant commissioner who directs CBP's Office of Air and Marine, argues that the value of drug seizures involving the drones have outweighed the cost of the Predator B program. https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/arizona/investigations/2015/06/21/border-patrol-drone-program/28999735/?fbclid=IwAR0rHCj2JA1-pNxy3vg1k9KpapqupWlpJMijwaW0vIMW2_2F2O-LtMV4n7E END OF EMAIL BACK TO MY REPORT BORKOWSKI and the Expo - OPPORTUNITY AND MOTIVE? Borkowski had the opportunity to speak privately with Northrop Grumman at the Expo. He could have indirectly – or directly convinced NGC to end contacts with me regarding my technology. Did he? Did he have the motive? This might provide an answer

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Officials Concede Failures on Gauging Border Security By Julia Preston, New York Times

• March 21, 2013 • Both Democratic and Republican lawmakers were taken aback at a

hearing on Wednesday in the House of Representatives when Mark Borkowski, a senior Homeland Security official, said he had no progress to report on a broad measure of border conditions the department had been working on since 2010. The lawmakers warned that failure by the Obama administration to devise a reliable method of border evaluation could imperil passage of immigration legislation.

Obama administration officials said on Thursday that they had resisted producing a single measure to assess the border because the president did not want any hurdles placed on the pathway to eventual citizenship for immigrants in the country illegally.

SEIDEARM was originally invented to provide a single measure of border

security. Borkowski and was well aware of my invention and its capabilities, as I had briefed personally in 2013.

The NY Times reported that the White House resisted the idea of a single measure and that Borkowski was a major player in the discussion of the issue. There may have been another major player – Cecilia Munoz, Obama’s Domestic policy advisor. EMAIL TO NY TIMES CORRESPONDENT - JUNE 12, 2019 Simon; This morning Facebook sent me a one-year reminder of a story I posted on May 24, 2018. This was part of the graphic I posted in that blog one year ago

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It started me thinking,. As Domestic Policy Advisor to President Obama, could it be that I was on Cecelia Munoz’ radar? Could it be she was following my efforts to get DHS/CBP to use a proper metric to secure the border? Could it be she was behind this? New York Times, March 21, 2013 Obama administration officials said on Thursday that they had resisted producing a single measure to assess the border because the president did not want any hurdles placed on the pathway to eventual citizenship for immigrants in the country illegally. https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/22/us/officials-still-seek-ways-to-assess-border-security.html Could it be that Cecelia Munoz had a hand in government decisions regarding my technology? What about Northop Grumman? I had decided to not send you more emails, but I could not ignore this providential Facebook nudge. Best. Glenn Spencer END OF EMAIL BACK TO MY REPORT

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WHITE HOUSE INVOLVEMENT? If Cecilia Munoz wanted to follow my technology, it had been featured many times at www.americanborderpatrol.com. ABP report, dated May 31, 2014:

“For the past eighteen months a major Department of Defense contractor has been studying the potential of a border security system we have been calling the Sonic Barrier. “ Because of a legal agreement, I can't go into detail except to say that, after an extensive evaluation, this contractor has concluded that the "Sonic Barrier" may be the best border and perimeter security system ever devised.” http://americanborderpatrol.com/14-FEATURESABP/140531/140531Feature.html

Could the White House Domestic Policy Advisor have learned that the DOD contractor was Northrop Grumman? CAN THE TRUTH BE DISCOVERED? Is it possible that someone connected to the White House worked with Mark Borkowski to interfere with my relationship with Northrop Grumman? To be sure, someone did. There are plenty of witnesses. Mike King and Dr. Gregg Voss can testify about what happened at the Expo. James Steward (no longer with NGC) can provide names of the NGC mangers that were to speak with me – and can give details about plans for integrating NGC systems with SEIDARM.