---
title: "All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO)"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "concept"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office"
aliases: ["AARO"]
first_seen: "2026-07-26T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program (AATIP)","Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program","Defense Intelligence Agency","unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP)","Department of Defense historical-record reporting"]
---


A U.S. Department of Defense office established July 2022 to lead the DoD's investigation of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), including the historical record of prior government involvement. Its congressionally-mandated "Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, Volume I" (February 2024, NDAA FY2023 §6802(j)) is the vault's first Tier 1 primary-document source on the AAWSAP/AATIP program, and it matters here as the authoritative institutional voice on questions — naming, funding, chronology — that prior vault captures had only been able to answer from press coverage.

## References
- [[claim-aawsap-established-2009-aatip-never-official-program]]
- [[claim-aatip-name-persisted-post-2012-as-unofficial-activity]]
- [[claim-aawsap-22m-funded-via-fy2008-fy2010-defense-appropriations-acts]]
- [[claim-aawsap-scope-covered-12-advanced-aerospace-technology-areas]]
- [[claim-kona-blue-was-failed-dhs-successor-to-aawsap-aatip]]
- [[claim-reid-2009-sap-request-for-aawsap-declined-by-lynn-per-clapper]]