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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.
7 4 3 2 Publishes and distributes final, peer-reviewed AARO Analytic Assessment in a manner discoverable by DoD, IC, policymakers, and other stakeholders Provides conclusions and feedback to UAP reporting sources (i.e., UAP observers) Publication and Feedback Compare location, characteristics, performance and signature data to open source and classified catalogues of known foreign capabilities and R&D programs; deconflict with sensitive US programs and activities; triage, categorize, and store for further analysis PRELIMINARY ANALYSES Leads an integrated DoD, IC, and S&T community process that employs rigorous tradecraft, sophisticated scientific methods, and an expert peer review to resolve cases with the highest confidence levels possible INTEGRATED ANALYTIC STRATEGY The Director will review all elements of the Analytic Assessment Case Package and the peer review findings to either approve the Assessment’s determination or disapprove it and send back to the IC and S&T Teams for additional analysis Director’s Review 1 Public, private, and industry laboratory partners leverage scientific and engineering methods and cutting-edge computing technologies to publish peer-reviewed, forensic, repeatable research on anomalous UAP signatures and material SCIENTIFIC ANALYSES Mission partners' defense, intelligence, and counterintelligence analysts employ intelligence tradecraft against all-source data, to produce rigorous analyses of UAP implications to US National Security INTELLIGENCE ANALYSES Prepare the AARO Analytic Assessment Case Package including original reports, sensor data, IC and S&T findings and analytic assessments. As necessary, convene both teams to discuss significant analytic difference. Package will be reviewed by members of the Strategic Technical Advisory Group for rigor, tradecraft, gaps, assumptions and argumentation ANALYTIC PEER-REVIEW 5 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
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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.