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Office of the Secretary of Defense: 23_AARO_Brief_ATB

Department of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense. · 2023 · 8 pages · text from the file's own layer

This is a 2023 slide briefing from the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), presented by Director Seán Kirkpatrick for the Department of Defense and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, titled "The Defense Department's UAP Mission & Civil Aviation." It defines UAP and sets out AARO's mission, vision and lines of effort. It calls for educating aviators, destigmatizing UAP reporting and building civil reporting channels, and it lists the observation details analysts need. The slides were reviewed and released in full in February 2025.

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DoD PPR Approved Slide, Case 23-S-0802
U.S. Department of Defense &
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
UNCLASSIFIED
UNCLASSIFIED
AARO is a uniquely-capable, Defense Department organization that integrates
operational, scientific, and intelligence capabilities to resolve UAP.
our 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
our 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
key scientific and intelligence questions
 Physical, technical, behavioral, and contextual
characteristics of phenomena, their composition, and
their movement
 Capabilities, limitations, and vulnerabilities of
phenomena and any assessed technological gap
between phenomena and the United States
 Indications and characteristics of hazards, risks and/or
threats by phenomena to the United States, its people,
its equities, and/or its instruments of national power
 Attribution of phenomena to natural and/or artificial
sources
 Indications of foreign observation of and reaction to
phenomena
 The disposition of observed phenomena023
Page determined to be Unclassified
Reviewed by Chief of Staff, AARO
IAW FY24 NDAA, Section 1841 (a)(1)(C)
Date: 02/06/2025

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