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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.
8 Directs exploitation of recovered enigmatic technologies, leveraging cross-sector partnerships and the latest developments in theoretical and applied physics, engineering Leads structured recording, synthesis, and sharing of signature and material analyses for data consistency across operational, analytic, and research partnerships UAP EXPLOITATION In close collaboration with AARO Operations and with research partners (e.g., DoE laboratories), integrates emergent technical capabilities into “real-world" operations and guides their application against UAP Comparatively analyzes newly- exposed signatures, characteristics, and behaviors with known phenomena, in support of AARO Analysts' preliminary assessment CAPABILITIES DEPLOYMENT Leads defense, intelligence, academic, and industry identification of existing and emergent technology capable of detecting, identifying, attributing, mitigating, and exploiting UAP Identifies, approves, and guides Research & Development investments from across sectors; recommends capability integration into Integrated UAP Mission Strategies CAPABILITIES DEVELOPMENT In partnership with the scientific community and the AARO Strategic Technical Advisory Group, analyzes US and foreign sensor data phenomenology and assesses applied and theoretical signatures Leads development of theorems for defining characteristics of known and anomalous phenomena, and guides operational and analytic tradecraft development UAP SIGNATURE ID DoD operational, analytic, and investigative elements, IC Mission Managers, and IC Functional Managers identify capability and capacity shortfalls, as they pertain to UAP detection, identification, attribution, and mitigation Sensor and exploitation instrumentation needs and gaps codified as capability requirements by AARO Operations and Analyses CAPABILITY GAP ID Leads Integrated S& T Strategy development revealing elusive signatures, advanced technological-exploitation tools and methods, and non-traditional partnership opportunities to arm the UAP Mission against emerging threats INTEGRATED SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 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
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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.