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

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1 that we were able to start seeing these UAPs only when we
2 opened up these filters.
3 Obviously, our military operators cannot be overloaded
4 with objects that are not conventional aircraft or missiles.
5 Can you nonetheless make sure that the raw data is being
6 captured and subsequently processed so that your office
7 knows what is really out there and is that going to cost
8 money? Will you expect to pay for that money out of AARO's
9 budget?
10 Mr. Kirkpatrick: One of the key tenets that we are
11 trying to do in our science plan is understand what those
12 signatures are. So we get all the raw, for example, radar
13 data prior to the scrubbing and filtering to allow it to
14 enter into our weapon systems and our detection systems.
15 We are now taking all that data and cross correlating
16 it to what pilots are saying they are seeing or other
17 observations from other operators.
18 What that allows us to do is then see if there are any
19 signatures in that data that I can pull out, generate what
20 we will call automatic target recognition algorithms that
21 allow us to then use that signature associated with a
22 observed UAP whatever that UAP may be.
23 We will then make those recommendations of what those
24 changes should be back to the department. So the deputy
25 secretary had asked me last October to make those