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Office of the Secretary of Defense: 029_2023_UAP_Mission_Slides

Department of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense. · 2023 · 12 pages · text from the file's own layer

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.

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
ANALYSESOPERATIONS SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS
driving shared awareness
across mission partners,
oversight authorities, and
stakeholders—normalizing
cross-sector partnerships and
building trust with
transparency
delivering peer-reviewed
conclusions through deliberate
syntheses of scientific and
intelligence method,
tradecraft, tools, and expertise
synchronizing and sequencing
Theater, IC, and other
capabilities for optimized,
cross-functional UAP
detection, tracking, mitigation,
and recovery
Mission, Vision, & Functions
AARO emerged from Congressional and Departmental recognition that UAP present
complex hazards and threats across service, regional, and domain boundaries.
revealing and exploiting
elusive and enigmatic
signatures through advanced
technologies and focused,
cross-sector partnerships
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VISION: unidentified, anomalous objects are effectively and efficiently
detected, tracked, analyzed, and managed by way of normalized DoD, IC,
and civil business practices; by adherence to the highest scientific and
intelligence-tradecraft standards; and with greater transparency and
shared awareness
MISSION: minimize technical and intelligence surprise, by synchronizing
scientific, intelligence, and operational detection, identification,
attribution, and mitigation of unidentified, anomalous objects in the
vicinity of national security areas
FOR DISPLAY ONLY
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Page determined to be Unclassified
Reviewed by Chief of Staff, AARO
IAW FY24 NDAA, Section 1841(a)(1)(C)
Date: 3/20/2025

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