All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office - Organizational Management Operations Analyses Science & Technology Strategic Communications

US Department of Defense2
⎯UAP ≠ unattributed balloon activity;
key emphases on “anomalous” factors
⎯Existence of UAP is direct consequence
of domain-awareness gaps
⎯UAP potentially represent advanced
capabilities operating in our
domain-awareness gaps
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ANOMALOUS
PHENOMENA
UAP are sources of anomalous detections in one or
more domain (i.e., airborne, seaborne,
spaceborne, and/or transmedium) that are
not yet attributable to known actors and
that demonstrate behaviors that are not
readily understood by sensors or observers.
“Anomalous detections” include but are not
limited to phenomena that demonstrate
apparent capabilities or material that exceed
known performance envelopes.
A UAP may consist of one or more
unidentified anomalous objects and may
persist over an extended period of time.
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US Department of Defense3
The FY23 NDAA modified and expanded on the previous year’s UAP provisions,
affecting authorities, organization, and reporting-requirements.
⎯Established AARO as US Government lead for UAP efforts
⎯Amends structure, distribution of responsibilities
⎯Requires annual report to be a joint, DoD & ODNI submission
⎯Adds Historical Record Report
⎯Adds UAP reporting procedures/protections
⎯Increases number of congressional committees overseeing
AARO activities
⎯Revises UAP acronym to stand for unidentified anomalous
phenomena
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A L L - D O M A I N A N O M A LY R E S O L U T I O N O F F I C E
O R G A N I Z A T I O N A L M A N A G E M E N T O P E R A T I O N S A N A L Y S E S S C I E N C E & T E C H N O L O G Y S T R A T E G I C C O M M U N I C A T I O N S
● Formalize organizational design,
responsibilities
● Codify and staff unit manning
document to full-operating capability
● Develop foundational, DoD and IC
UAP policies, guidance
● Receive full complement of
support contractors
● Arrange for FY25 transition to
ARRO-specific IDIQ vehicle
● Build AARO budget requirements
into FY25 PBR
● Establish the Department’s UAP-
reporting standards
● Drive implementation of
operational framework
● Guide development and
deployment of persistent-surveillance
capabilities
● Normalize ingestion, curation, and
integration of multi-source UAP data
● Guide Joint Staff development of
UAP mitigation and response
standards and plans
● Streamline deconfliction of
detected UAP and blue programs
● Review US Government’s UAP and
UAP-related historical record
● Guide development of policies
and practices for UAP-data and
analyses downgrade/declassification
● UAP addition to intelligence
prioritization
● Develop thresholds, criteria for
anomalous determinants of each
domain
● Guide UAP collection and
reporting, through cogent
operational and intelligence
reporting requirements
● Drive implementation of analytic
framework—including compliance
with intelligence tradecraft standards,
peer-review, and reporter-feedback
● Institutionalize UAP case-
management—including
transitioning cases to cognizant
expertise and authorities
● Enable mission oversight by
providing Congress with timely,
relevant, and comprehensive UAP
updates
● Develop comprehensive,
searchable UAP database
● Guide architecture and network
engineering
● Drive scientific analyses—including
compliance with the scientific
method, use of advanced
approaches and tools, and rigorous
peer-review
● Identify UAP signatures and
indicators
● Guide calibration of military,
intelligence, and other sensors, for
improved detection of UAP
signatures
● Draw upon special expertise
outside of the Federal Government
for development of theoretical
models
● Establish interagency coordination
on UAP public messaging
● Engage partners and allies about
AARO’s work and mission
● Establish secure mechanism for
reporting of any event related to
UAP and any event of the U.S.
government related to UAP retrieval,
analysis, engineering
● Educate and inform the public
AARO’s mission and findings, in line
with DoD public statements
(e.g., NASA study public meeting (May ‘23); open
congressional hearing (April ’23); Transportation
Research Board (Dec ‘23); and DoD UAP press
event (Dec ’22))
● Issue clear, public guidance for
accessing mechanism for UAP
reporting
Office Goals & Priorities: 2023
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