{"id":146739,"date":"2023-09-02T11:41:12","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T15:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=146739"},"modified":"2023-09-02T11:43:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T15:43:24","slug":"deputy-secdef-watches-the-unknown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=146739","title":{"rendered":"Deputy SecDef Watches the Unknown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-146740 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/hicks-dod.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"293\" height=\"234\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Secretary Kathleen Hicks<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Hicks takes direct oversight of Pentagon\u2019s UAP office; new reporting website to be launched<\/h3>\n<p><strong><em>In separate discussions over the last week, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks and a Pentagon spokesperson briefed DefenseScoop on the near-term vision for the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>BY BRANDI VINCENT<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks recently moved to personally oversee the Pentagon\u2019s unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) investigation team formally known as the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, DefenseScoop has exclusively learned. And a new website will soon be launched where incidents can be reported.<\/p>\n<p>Hicks now holds regular meetings with AARO\u2019s inaugural director, Sean Kirkpatrick \u2014 who she\u2019s also repositioned to report directly to her.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon\u2019s second-in-charge took action late last month, partly to help speed up AARO\u2019s development and launch of a congressionally mandated public website where the organization will be expected to disclose its unclassified work and findings and offer a secure mechanism via which users can submit their own reports of possible UAP observances.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/defensescoop.com\/2023\/08\/30\/hicks-takes-direct-oversight-of-pentagons-uap-office-new-reporting-website-to-be-launched\/\">Defense Scoop<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office? Here I thought that the Defense Acquisition University was the ultimate DOD self-licking ice cream cone. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary Kathleen Hicks Hicks takes direct oversight of Pentagon\u2019s UAP office; new reporting website to be &hellip; <a title=\"Deputy SecDef Watches the Unknown\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=146739\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Deputy SecDef Watches the Unknown<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":146740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,213,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-big-pentagon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/146740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}