Transcript: Briefing to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities - Open Hearing: April 19, 2023

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1 there tends to be a push to increase size and funding. We
2 want to make sure that you are able to meet your goals.
3 But what I also need to ensure is that we are not
4 duplicating or replicating existing functions and creating
5 redundancy within DOD and the interagency.
6 So what steps are you taking right now to make sure
7 that your particular office and function is unique to any of
8 the other agencies that might be involved in these types of
9 cases?
10 Mr. Kirkpatrick: Yeah, that is a great question.
11 So I would like to lay down here is one of my -- sort
12 of my mission and my goal and my vision here. So the vision
13 is at one point -- at some point in the future you should
14 not need an AARO.
15 If I am successful in what I am doing we should be able
16 to normalize everything that we are doing into existing
17 processes, functions, agencies, and organizations and make
18 that part of their mission and their role.
19 Right now, the niche that we form is really going after
20 the unknowns. If you -- I think you articulated it early on
21 this is a hunt mission for what might somebody be doing in
22 our backyard that we do not know about.
23 All right. Well, that is what we are doing. But at
24 some point we should be able to normalize that. That is why
25 it is so important the work we are doing with Joint Staff to