Direct Report Offices

Missions:

All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office. All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office's (AARO) mission is to minimize technical and intelligence surprise by synchronizing scientific, intelligence, and operational detection identification, attribution, and mitigation of unidentified anomalous phenomena in the vicinity of national security areas.

OSD Red Team. The Charter Directive, DoDD 0-5105.88 established the OSD Red Team to serve as the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense Red Team, providing insights on adversaries' highest-level perspectives and potential actions to inform strategic-level DoD activities.  The OSD Red Team uses expert knowledge and reasoning to anticipate adversary viewpoints and decision making.