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PA EST AOI Mgmt Sync Group 05-16-23 (FOIA 22-F-0249)

Office of the Secretary of Defense · 2023-05-16 · 31 pages · text from the file's own layer

This Office of the Secretary of Defense FOIA release (case 22-F-0249), dated May 16, 2023, collects public affairs material about the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG). It contains Deputy Secretary Kathleen Hicks' November 23, 2021 memo creating the AOIMSG and an executive council to succeed the Navy's UAP Task Force. It also holds press releases, briefing cards with talking points and answers, a spokesperson statement and news clips.

  • p. 18 …Multiple reporters (including Spencer Ackerman, Forever Wars/The Daily Beast; Tom Rogan, Washington Examiner; Courtney Kube…
https://www.defense.gov/News/Advisories/Advisory/Article/2870014/deputy-secretary-of-defense-hicks-
travels-to-m ichiga n-colorad o-h awa ii-ca liforn i/
* U.S.-Sweden-Finland Meeting. PTDO DUSD(P) Dr. Karlin met with Sweden Defence Policy Director Johan
Lagerlof and Finland Deputy Director General for Defence Policy Janne Kuusela to discuss a range of global and
regional security challenges facing Europe, and to underscore the importance of security and stability in the
Nordic and Baltic region. The full readout is posted at
https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2868722/readout-of-performing-the-duties-of-
deputy-under-secretary-of-defense-for-polic/.
THREE-DAY FORECAST (all events subject to change)
(b)(5)
QUERIES OF NOTE
* AOIMSG. Following up on a question by Travis Tritten, Military.com, from the Dec. 8 on-camera press
briefing, provided the following statement to media via the broad DPO media distribution lists: "As directed
by Deputy Secretary Hicks in her memo, we're currently t ransitioning the UAP Task Force and its ongoing
efforts to the AOIMSG. We're also working on additional implementing guidance on the AOIMSG, as well as
the Airborne Object Identification and Management Executive Council (AOIMEXEC), for Deputy Secretary
Hicks' approval, per her memo. Once that guidance is approved and published, the t ransition from UAPTF is
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