Modification of Requirement for Office to Address Unidentified
Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena
At a time when cross-domain transmedium threats to United
States national security are expanding exponentially, the Com-
mittee is disappointed with the slow pace of DoD-led efforts to es-
tablish the office to address those threats and to replace the former
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force as required in Section
1683 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year
2022. The Committee was hopeful that the new office would ad-
dress many of the structural issues hindering progress. To accel-
erate progress, the Committee has, pursuant to Section 703, re-
named the organization formerly known as the Unidentified Aerial
Phenomena Task Force and the Aerial Object Identification and
Management Synchronization Management Group to be the Un-
identified Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena Joint Program Office.
That change reflects the broader scope of the effort directed by the
Congress. Identification, classification, and scientific study of un-
identified aerospace-undersea phenomena is an inherently chal-
lenging cross-agency, cross-domain problem requiring an integrated
or joint Intelligence Community and DoD approach. The new Office
will continue to be led by DoD, with a Deputy Director named by
the Intelligence Community. The formal DoD and Intelligence
Community definition of the terms used by the Office shall be up-
dated to include space and undersea, and the scope of the Office
shall be inclusive of those additional domains with focus on ad-
dressing technology surprise and ‘‘unknown unknowns.’’ Temporary
nonattributed objects, or those that are positively identified as
man-made after analysis, will be passed to appropriate offices and
should not be considered under the definition as unidentified aero-
space-undersea phenomena.
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