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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.
6 Organically garners primary research data for scientific and intelligence analyst consumption- through voluntary interviews with those who claim placement and access to UAP and UAP-related information; through collection of historical government and open- source data; and through other activities. HISTORICAL UAP-DATA ACQUISITION Leads UAP recovery planning and execution, in close collaboration with AARO S& T Group. Advises Commands on the secure and safe handling, storage, transport, and transfer of UAP Objects and Material, for AARO S&T exploitation. UAP OBJECT RECOVERY Partners with Joint Staff and counterintelligence elements in the development of UAP mitigation strategies- including but not limited to UAP incursions and engagement Advises Commands on AoR-specific UAP mitigation planning; on tactics, techniques, and procedures; and on relevant legal, policy, oversight, and compliance requirements. UAP MITIGATION Advises Theater, Defense, National-level, and foreign UAP operations—optimizing platform and sensor tasking across functions and in real- time, during Area of Responsibility (AoR) baselining and as anomalies are detected, observed. Manages the secure retention of UAP Data from operational platforms and its transfer to AARO. UAP DETECTION & TRACKING Guides codification of analytic information needs as reporting requirements by scientific and intelligence analysts Military operational elements, IC Mission Managers, and IC Functional Managers identify capabilities, capacities, and constraints available for reporting against scientific and intelligence analytic needs REPORTING REQUIREMENTS MGT Leads Integrated-Operations Strategy development-tailoring platform and sensor tasking and optimizing cross-functional tipping & cueing between Theater and IC assets. Guides development of integrated-operations plans; standardized reporting requirements; interoperable tactics, techniques, and procedures; and operational prioritization of platforms and sensors. INTEGRATED OPERATIONS STRATEGY 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 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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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.