DoD:s invändning mot House NDAA-krav på UAP-rapportering

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23-F-0241 
Priority Department 
of Defense Language Appeal 
FY 2023 National Defen
se Authorization Bill 
Subject: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Reporting Procedures 
Appeal Citation: H.R. 7900, sec. 1663 
Language/Provision: Hou
se section 1663 would require the Department of Defense (DoD) to establish a secure system 
for receiving reports 
ofany event relating to Unidentified Aerial Phenomena ( UAP) as well as any government or 
government 
contractor activity or program related to UAP at all classification levels. The secure system would be 
administered 
by "designated and widely known, easily accessible and appropriately cleared" employees or contractors 
assigned to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), and information about the secure system, including clear 
public guidance for accessing and using the system, would be made available to the public on a DoD website. 
Additionally, the heads 
of all departments and agencies of the Federal Government that have supported UAP 
investigations, including the Secretary 
of Defense, would be required to conduct comprehensive searches all records 
relating to non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), orders, 
or other obligations relating to UAP and make them accessible to 
the congressional intelligence committees, congressional defense 
committees, and congressional leadership. 
Finally, the proposal would enable personnel to report through the secure system any information which might otherwise 
have implicated a written 
or oral NOA, order, or other instrument that could be interpreted as a legal constraint. The 
Senate Armed Services Committee included no similar provision in its version 
of the National Defense Authorization Act, 
but the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence included a similar provision in its mark 
of the Intelligence Authorization 
Act for 
Fiscal Year 2023, S. 4503, section 704. 
DoD Position/Impact: 
The Department objects to the House provision because, as written, it could intrude on the 
President's constitutional authority to manage classified information, 
information security, and information security 
systems. The requirements would also present unnecessary national security and counterintelligence risks by requiring 
the establishment of a publicly acknowledged system, with clear guidance to the public on how to access and use it, that is 
meant to provide for the sharing 
of classified and potentially compartmented information. The Department is concerned 
that establishing and managing such a system would be a resource-intensive undertaking that would detract critical 
personnel and financial resources from other important functions 
of the recently established AARO. 
The Department shares the goal of establishing a secure mechanism to encourage and protect individuals who provide 
potentially classified information regarding UAP or UAP-related programs to authorized perso
nnel in the AARO with the 
requisite need to know. However, the Department 
has existing authorities and mechanisms to enable such reporting that 
would fulfill the intent 
ofthe House provision without its associated concerns. For example, the Secretary of Defense 
may already authorize Department personnel to receive 
information, regardless of classification, in a protected manner 
consistent with Executive Ord
er 13526, Executive Order 12968, and corresponding DoD and Office of the Director of 
National Intelligence directives. 
The Department is also concern
ed that the re