Office of the Secretary of Defense: 03_2024_DGI_Mission_Brief

UNCLASSIFIED
ALL-DOMAIN ANOMALY RESOLUTION OFFICE (AARO) 5
AARO SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Revealing and exploiting elusive and enigmatic signatures through advanced sensing technologies and focused, cross-sector partnerships.
KEY AARO S&T ACHIEVEMENTS
 Established community of interest with
key government, academic, and
industry partners.
 Guided design and deployment of
sensors engineered for detecting,
tracking, and identifying phenomena.
 Applied scientific analyses to emerging
and existing UAP reporting, introduced
scientific method, and helped resolve
complex cases.
 Identified and integrated sensors for
baselining detection capabilities,
including UAP objects’ range, size,
shape, characteristics, and composition,
relative to UAP reports on file.
 Measured RCS and IR data and
identified synthetic models for common
objects, which will be used for
simulation, verification, and training.
 Delivered material for characterization,
forensic identification, and molecular-
history information.
 Developed taxonomy and characteristics
of man-made and naturally occurring
objects to baseline known performance
bounds.
CAPABILITIES AND DEVELOPMENT
Leads defense, intelligence, academic, and industry identification of existing and emerging technology capable of detecting,
identifying, attributing, mitigating, and exploiting UAP. Identifies and guides research & development investments from across
sectors to close sensing gaps. Recommends capability integration into integrated UAP Mission strategies. In close collaboration with
AARO Operations and research partners (e.g., national 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 Analysis Team assessments.
INTEGRATED SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Leads S&T Strategy and identification of current and emerging capabilities for integration, revealing elusive signatures, advanced
technological-exploitation tools and methods, and non-traditional partnership opportunities to arm the UAP Mission against
emerging threats.
In partnership with the scientific community analyzes U.S. and foreign sensor data phenomenology, assesses applied and
theoretical signatures.
Leads development of theorems for defining characteristics of known and anomalous phenomena and guides operational and
analytic tradecraft development.
CAPABILITY GAP ID
Leads DoD operational, analytic, and investigative components, and collaborates with IC mission managers, and IC functional
managers to identify capability and capacity shortfalls as they pertain to UAP detection, identification, attribution, and mitigation.
Determine sensor hardware and software gaps to be codified as capability requirement.
UAP SIGNATURE ID
Directs exploitation of sensor data containing UAP and enigmatic technologies, if discovered, by leveraging cross-sector
partnerships and the latest developments in science and engineering.
Leads structured recording, analysis, and dissemination of signature and material analyses for data consistency across
operational, analytic, and research partnerships.
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UNCLASSIFIED03 Page determined to be Unclassified
Reviewed by Chief of Staff, AARO
IAW FY24 NDAA, Section 1841 (a)(1)(C)
Date: 2/5/2025