The office will also attempt to study objects that appear to travel between air, space and water.
With that in mind, the Department of Defense announced the creation of this new office in apublished Wednesday . The office is known as the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, or AARO, and was established within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security. The new office will be led by, who previously served as the chief scientist at the Defense Intelligence Agency's Missile and Space Intelligence Center.
The office has six primary lines of effort: surveillance, collection and reporting; system capabilities and design; intelligence operations and analysis; mitigation and defeat; governance; and science and technology. The objects of interest the office will attempt to detect and identify will include"anomalous, unidentified space, airborne, submerged and transmedium objects." Transmedium in this sense refers to objects or craft that can travel between domains, such as being able to transition from airborne flight to spaceflight, or from
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