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Doc 2 (FOIA 22-F-1364)

Office of the Secretary of Defense · 2022 · 6 pages · text from the file's own layer

This 2022 release from the Office of the Secretary of Defense, under FOIA case 22-F-1364, is a briefing deck from the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) presented by its director, Sean Kirkpatrick. It sets out AARO's mission and vision and describes UAP concerns in US territory, near strategic capabilities and in foreign areas. It also covers integrated operations, research, analysis and strategic communications, and efforts to destigmatize reporting. The deck closes by listing the observer and phenomenon details needed for UAP analysis.

AARO is a uniquely-capable, Defense Department & Intelligence Community organization
that integrates operational, scientific, and intelligence capabilities to resolve UAP.
our mission
minimize technical and intelligence surprise
and reduce operational risks, 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
— Physical, technical, behavioral, and contextual
charactetstics 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 phenomena

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