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DoD Establishes All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) to Coordinate Cross-Domain Detection and Attribution
The Department of Defense established the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security to synchronize cross-domain efforts to detect, identify, and attribute anomalous objects in space, air, underwater, and transmedium environments and to mitigate threats to safety and national security, with Dr. Sean M. Kirkpatrick named as director and an AARO Executive Council led by Ronald Moultrie to oversee surveillance, collection and reporting system capabilities and design, intelligence operations and analysis, mitigation and defeat, governance, science and technology, and transfer of data, while disestablishing the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force and transferring its data and materials to AARO, with a mandate explicitly encompassing anomalous, unidentified space, airborne, submerged, and transmedium objects, as announced in a Department of Defense release, signaling a coordinated cross-domain approach across multiple departments and agencies.
