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Project Almanac
Project Almanac (2015) is a found-footage teen science fiction film directed by Dean Israelite, produced by Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes for Paramount. Teens build a time machine from a dead father's blueprints; released January 30, 2015, grossing $22.3 million.
Project Ara
Project Ara was a Google effort, begun at Motorola, to build a modular smartphone with swappable components; it was suspended in 2016 without a consumer product.
Project Azorian
Project Azorian, also known as Project Jennifer, was a secret CIA operation during the Cold War to raise the sunken Soviet submarine K-129, lost with all hands in 1968.
Project B (basketball)
Project B is a Singapore-based global 5v5 basketball league founded in 2023, running a Formula One-style touring Grand Prix across Asia, Europe, and the Americas from January 2027, with high-salary, equity-holding WNBA and international women's stars.
Project Babylon
Project Babylon, also known as the Project Babylon Supergun, was an Iraqi weapons program of 1988 to 1990 to build very large guns, coordinated by artillery designer Gerald Bull.
Project Black
Project Black is a $1.45 billion private equity fund, the first from Ariel Investments' Ariel Alternatives arm, closed in 2023 and led by Leslie Brun with Mellody Hobson.
Project Blue Book
Project Blue Book was the U.S. Air Force's official UFO investigation program (1952-1969), following Projects Sign and Grudge; it examined 12,618 sightings, left 701 unidentified, and closed after the Condon Report.
Project Blue Book (TV series)
Project Blue Book is an American historical drama television series on History, created by David O'Leary and executive produced by Robert Zemeckis, dramatizing the Air Force's real 1950s UFO investigations.
Project Burgund
Project Burgund (Projekt Burgund): a 1940 Heinrich Himmler SS plan to create an autonomous SS state in eastern France's Franche-Comté, resettle South Tyrolean Germans there, rename towns Bozen and Brixen, and make it an SS model state; abandoned by end of 1940.
Project CARS
Project CARS: racing simulation series by Slightly Mad Studios (CARS = Community Assisted Racing Simulator), WMD-crowdfunded, launched May 2015; sequels 2017 and 2020; delisted, series ended under EA/Codemasters.
Project Chanology
Project Chanology (Operation Chanology) was Anonymous's 2008 protest campaign against the Church of Scientology, triggered by takedown attempts on a leaked Tom Cruise video, combining DDoS attacks, pranks, and global Guy Fawkes-masked street protests.
Project charter
A project charter is a document, issued by a project's sponsor, that formally authorizes the project and gives the project manager authority to apply organizational resources to it.
Project Chrono
Project Chrono is an open-source, multi-physics simulation engine written in C++ and used to model mechanical systems, vehicles, and robots, led by Wisconsin-Madison and Parma.
Project commissioning
Project commissioning is a quality-focused process of verifying and documenting that a facility's systems are designed, installed, tested, and operated to meet the owner's project requirements.
Project Cybersyn
Project Cybersyn (Spanish: Synco) was a cybernetic economic coordination system developed for Chilean president Salvador Allende between 1971 and 1973, directed by Stafford Beer and ended by the 1973 military coup.
Project DEAL
Projekt DEAL is Germany's national consortium, run by the German Rectors' Conference since 2014, negotiating Publish-and-Read open-access agreements with Wiley (2019), Springer Nature (2020), and Elsevier (2024) at a EUR 2,750 per-article fee.
Project Echo
Project Echo was NASA's first communications satellite program, in which large inflatable balloon satellites bounced radio signals between ground stations, beginning with Echo 1 in 1960.
Project Esther
Project Esther is a Heritage Foundation policy paper released October 7, 2024, framing pro-Palestinian groups as a Hamas Support Network and proposing legal and immigration measures; critics and 2025 reporting link it to Trump administration actions.
Project Excalibur
Project Excalibur was a United States research program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the 1980s to develop a nuclear-explosion-pumped X-ray laser for ballistic missile defense.
Project finance
Project finance, also called project financing, funds large capital-intensive projects through a legally separate special purpose vehicle, with lenders repaid from the project's revenues and limited recourse to sponsors' assets.
Project for the New American Century
Project for the New American Century (PNAC), a neoconservative Washington think tank founded by William Kristol and Robert Kagan in 1997, dissolved 2006; known for its 1998 Iraq regime-change letter to Clinton and the 2000 Rebuilding America's Defenses report.
Project Gemini
Project Gemini, also called the Gemini program, was NASA's second human spaceflight program, running from 1961 to 1966 as a bridge between Mercury and Apollo.
Project GLOW DC 2026
Project GLOW DC 2026 is the fifth edition of Project GLOW, a two-day electronic dance music festival at the RFK Festival Grounds in Washington, DC, held May 30–31, 2026.
Project GLOW DC 2027
Project GLOW DC 2027 is the sixth edition of a two-day EDM festival at the RFK Festival Grounds in Washington, D.C., on June 5 and 6, 2027.
Project Gotham Racing 2
Project Gotham Racing 2 (PGR2), Bizarre Creations racing game for Xbox, released November 18, 2003 by Microsoft Game Studios; 100+ cars, 10 cities, Kudos style-scoring system, eight-player Xbox Live, Metacritic 90.
Project Grayburn
Project Grayburn is a procurement program of the UK Ministry of Defence to replace the SA80 (L85) service rifle with about 150,000 to 180,000 rifles, still in its concept phase.
Project Greek Island
Project Greek Island was the code name for a secret US government bunker built under the Greenbrier resort in West Virginia to house Congress during nuclear war.
Project Greenlight
Project Greenlight: HBO documentary series (2001-2015, four seasons, later Bravo for season 3) from Matt Damon and Ben Affleck in which contest-winning first-time directors make a feature film; revived as A New Generation on Max in 2023.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg, founded by Michael Hart on July 4, 1971, is the oldest digital library, offering about 79,600 free public-domain eBooks via Distributed Proofreaders volunteers, with EPUB3 accessibility work and AI audiobooks distinguishing it from Standard Ebooks.
Project Gutenberg (无双) (2018 film)
Project Gutenberg (無雙) is a 2018 Hong Kong counterfeiting crime thriller by Felix Chong, starring Chow Yun-fat and Aaron Kwok; it grossed over RMB 1 billion and won 7 Hong Kong Film Awards including Best Film.