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These unclassified display slides from the Department of Defense's All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) are dated 2023, carry the name of Director Seán Kirkpatrick, and were reviewed for release in March 2025. They define unidentified anomalous phenomena and summarize how the FY23 NDAA expanded AARO's authorities. They also lay out AARO's mission, its operations, analysis, science and strategic communications functions, reporting trends from 1996 to 2023, and the office's goals and priorities for 2023.
“The Advance”3 pages
A L L - D O M A I N A N O M A LY R E S O L U T I O N O F F I C E O R G A N I Z A T I O N A L M A N A G E M E N T O P E R A T I O N S A N A L Y S E S S C I E N C E & T E C H N O L O G Y S T R A T E G I C C O M M U N I C A T I O N S ● Formalize organizational design, responsibilities ● Codify and staff unit manning document to full-operating capability ● Develop foundational, DoD and IC UAP policies, guidance ● Receive full complement of support contractors ● Arrange for FY25 transition to ARRO-specific IDIQ vehicle ● Build AARO budget requirements into FY25 PBR ● Establish the Department’s UAP- reporting standards ● Drive implementation of operational framework ● Guide development and deployment of persistent-surveillance capabilities ● Normalize ingestion, curation, and integration of multi-source UAP data ● Guide Joint Staff development of UAP mitigation and response standards and plans ● Streamline deconfliction of detected UAP and blue programs ● Review US Government’s UAP and UAP-related historical record ● Guide development of policies and practices for UAP-data and analyses downgrade/declassification ● UAP addition to intelligence prioritization ● Develop thresholds, criteria for anomalous determinants of each domain ● Guide UAP collection and reporting, through cogent operational and intelligence reporting requirements ● Drive implementation of analytic framework—including compliance with intelligence tradecraft standards, peer-review, and reporter-feedback ● Institutionalize UAP case- management—including transitioning cases to cognizant expertise and authorities ● Enable mission oversight by providing Congress with timely, relevant, and comprehensive UAP updates ● Develop comprehensive, searchable UAP database ● Guide architecture and network engineering ● Drive scientific analyses—including compliance with the scientific method, use of advanced approaches and tools, and rigorous peer-review ● Identify UAP signatures and indicators ● Guide calibration of military, intelligence, and other sensors, for improved detection of UAP signatures ● Draw upon special expertise outside of the Federal Government for development of theoretical models ● Establish interagency coordination on UAP public messaging ● Engage partners and allies about AARO’s work and mission ● Establish secure mechanism for reporting of any event related to UAP and any event of the U.S. government related to UAP retrieval, analysis, engineering ● Educate and inform the public AARO’s mission and findings, in line with DoD public statements (e.g., NASA study public meeting (May ‘23); open congressional hearing (April ’23); Transportation Research Board (Dec ‘23); and DoD UAP press event (Dec ’22)) ● Issue clear, public guidance for accessing mechanism for UAP reporting Office Goals & Priorities: 2023 DoI: 20230710 FOR DISPLAY ONLY UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED FOR DISPLAY ONLY 029 Page determined to be Unclassified Reviewed by Chief of Staff, AARO IAW FY24 NDAA, Section 1841(a)(1)(C) Date: 3/20/2025
Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 12 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.