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National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 (FY2023 NDAA)
The claims the writer was given for National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 (FY2023 NDAA), in the order they were given.
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The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 tasked the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence, with establishing for the first time a secure mechanism for the authorised reporting of sensitive information to defence channels.
“The National Defense Authorization Act for FY2023 tasked the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence, with establishing for the first time a secure mechanism for the authorized reporting of sensitive information to defense channels.”
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The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 asks for reporting on "material retrieval, material analysis, reverse engineering, research, and development" involving Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP), currently and going back decades.
“In addition, the legislation asks for reporting on “material retrieval, material analysis, reverse engineering, research, and development” involving unidentified anomalous phenomena currently and going back decades.”
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David Charles Grusch helped draft the language on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) for the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 (FY2023 NDAA).
“and helped draft the language on UAP for the FY2023 National Defense Authorization Act”
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The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 was spearheaded by Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Marco Rubio and signed into law by President Joe Biden in December 2022.
“spearheaded by Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Marco Rubio and signed into law by President Biden in December 2022.”
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The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 provision states that any person with relevant Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) information can inform the United States Congress without retaliation, regardless of any previous non-disclosure agreements.
“The provision states that any person with relevant UAP information can inform Congress without retaliation, regardless of any previous non-disclosure agreements.”
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The legislation introducing the UAP reporting provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act 2023 survived the shift in Senate control to the Republican Party following the November 2022 mid-term elections.
“the legislation survived the power shifts giving the Republicans the control of the Senate after the November 2022 mid-term elections.”
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Democratic Senator Mark Warner, the former chairman of the Senate Select Committee for Intelligence, and his replacement, Republican Senator Marco Rubio, strongly and publicly supported the UAP legislation in the National Defense Authorization Act 2023.
“Both the former chairman of the Senate Select Committee for Intelligence, Democrat Senator Mark Warner and his replacement, Republican Senator Marco Rubio, strongly and publicly supported the UAP legislation.”
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Section 1632(a)(1)(B) of the National Defense Authorization Act 2023 requires the US Department of Defense to ensure reporting on any activity or program relating to unidentified anomalous phenomena, including with respect to material retrieval, material analysis, reverse engineering, research and development, detection and tracking, developmental or operational testing, and security protection and enforcement.
“S1632(a)(1)(B) of the NDAA...requires the DOD to ensure reporting on, 'any activity or program by a department or agency of the federal government or a contractor of such a department or agency relating to unidentifi ed anomalous phenomena, including with respect to material retrieval, material analysis, reverse engineering, research and development, detection and tracking, developmental or operational testing, and security protection and enforcement.'”
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On 2022-12-23, President Joe Biden signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act 2023 (NDAA), which contains Section 1673, headed 'Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Reporting Procedures'.
“Section 1673, intriguingly headed 'Unidentifi ed Anomalous Phenomena Reporting Procedures' (my emphasis), was tucked away in the thousands of pages of the 2023 budgetary appropriation authorisations for the US Department of Defense, the so-called National Defense Authorisation Act (NDAA).”
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The UAP provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act 2023 provide protections to ensure that no classified military and intelligence programs, including all Special Access Programs (SAPs), are compromised or made public.
“The UAP laws also provide protections to ensure that no classified military and intelligence programs, including all special access programs (SAPs) are compromised or made public.”
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If a UAP reverse-engineering program were authorised and overseen solely by Congress's so-called Gang of Eight as a Waived Unacknowledged Special Access Program (WUSAP), it would be required to stay secret under the National Defense Authorization Act 2023's UAP provisions.
“so long as it was 'authorised', perhaps by being oversighted solely by the Congress' so-called Gang of Eight as a WUSAP, it would be required to stay secret under these laws.”
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The National Defense Authorization Act 2023 requires that Congress must be notified within 72 hours after evidence has emerged of a UAP program that has not been explicitly and clearly reported to the congressional defense committees or the congressional intelligence committees.
“It requires that Congress must be notified within 72 hours after evidence has emerged of a UAP program that, '… has not been explicitly and clearly reported to the congressional defense committees or the congressional intelligence committees.'”
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Under the National Defense Authorization Act 2023, a UAP program does not have to be disclosed to Congress if those administering it conclude that the preponderance of available information indicates the observed object and associated events likely relate to a special access program or compartmented access program that has already been explicitly and clearly reported to the relevant committee.
“if those administering this program, '… conclude that the preponderance of information available regarding the disclosure indicates that the observed object and associated events and activities likely relate to a special access program or compartmented access program that, as of the date of the disclosure, has been explicitly and clearly reported …' to the relevant committee, then it does not have to be disclosed.”
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Section 1673 of the National Defense Authorization Act 2023 (NDAA) creates a secure method allowing current or former government employees or contractors to submit UAP-related information to the Pentagon's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) office, and through that office to the key congressional armed services and intelligence oversight committees.
“It creates a 'secure method' allowing current or former government employees or contractors to submit UAP-related information to the Pentagon UAP office, and through that office to get that information to the key congressional armed services and intelligence oversight committees.”
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Provisions requiring an independent agency such as the Government Accountability Office (GAO) or the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (DOD IG) to oversee UAP program reporting were included in the original draft UAP legislation but were dropped from the statute that finally passed as the National Defense Authorization Act 2023.
“There were provisions in the original draft UAP legislation that would have required an independent agency such as the congressional watchdog, the Government Accountability Offi ce (the GAO), or the DOD's Office of the Inspector General (the DOD IG) to keep the gatekeepers honest but those clauses were dropped from the statute that finally made it through the house.”
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The National Defense Authorization Act 2023 makes it illegal to take reprisal action against a whistleblower who makes an authorised disclosure of evidence of a concealed UAP program in government or the corporate world.
“One huge positive in the laws is that if a whistleblower does come forward with evidence of a concealed program hiding dark UAP secrets in government or the corporate world, it is illegal for anyone to take reprisal action against them if they make an authorised disclosure.”
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A provision granting whistleblowers who suffer reprisal a right to take civil action in the courts was included in the original draft of the UAP legislation but was deleted from the final version of the National Defense Authorization Act 2023.
“There was originally a provision in the draft proposed UAP laws which gave a right to such an aggrieved whistleblower to take civil action in the courts if such reprisals happened. But this protection was also inexplicably deleted from the fi nal legislation.”
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Under the National Defense Authorization Act 2023, the US Defense Secretary and the Director of National Intelligence are responsible for creating the procedures that will enforce the anti-reprisal laws for UAP whistleblowers.
“It has been left up to the Defense Secretary and Director of National Intelligence to create the procedures that will enforce the anti-reprisal laws.”
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The National Defense Authorization Act 2023 (NDAA) requires an exhaustive search across all federal government agencies for all records pertaining to non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) relating to UAP.
“Th is legislation requires there be an exhaustive search across all federal government agencies for all records pertaining to NDAs relating to UAPs.”
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The National Defense Authorization Act 2023 (NDAA) requires briefings on UAP non-disclosure agreement records be provided to oversight committees and congressional leadership no later than 2023-09-30 and for every year through to 2026.
“There is also a requirement that briefi ngs on such records be provided to the oversight committees and congressional leadership no later than 30 September 2023 and for every year through to 2026.”
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Under the National Defense Authorization Act 2023 (NDAA), witnesses who come forward with information about UAP secrets tied to a presidential executive order or national security order are deemed not to be violating any laws, but they have no such protection if they speak publicly about what they know.
“The law also ensures that, even if these dark UAP secrets are tied up with a presidential executive order or some dizzyingly draconian national security order, witnesses who come forward with information are deemed not to be violating any laws. But note well, if they speak publicly about what they know, there is no such protection.”
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United States Congress passed the National Defense Authorization Act 2023 (NDAA) provisions on UAP with bi-partisan support.
“By any measure, the fact that Congress has, with bi-partisan support, passed such extraordinary laws suggests very strongly that they have learned something in secret hearings to make them take the issue seriously.”
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President Joe Biden signed the National Defense Authorization Act 2023 (NDAA) into law on the Friday before the 2022 Christmas holiday shutdown.
“President Biden signed it into law on the Friday before the 2022 Christmas holiday shutdown, a huge news day, and most folk were distracted by other events.”
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Douglas Dean Johnson considers the National Defense Authorization Act 2023 (NDAA) UAP legislation to reflect a perception among key members of Congress that important information on the subject may have been appropriately classified but that much important data has been 'stovepiped' - sealed within specific projects or programs in ways that impeded meaningful progress and congressional oversight.
“He says, ‘I believe that the legislation reflects a perception, by some key members of Congress, that there is important information on this subject to which classification may have been appropriate, but that much important data has been “stovepiped” – sealed up within specific projects or programs in ways that have impeded meaningful progress towards coming fully to grips with the entire scope of UAP, and perhaps also stymied meaningful congressional oversight.”
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The National Defense Authorization Act 2023 requires the Secretary of the US Department of Defense to establish a secure mechanism for authorised reporting of any event relating to unidentified anomalous phenomena.
“It has required the Secretary of the US Defense Department to establish a secure mechanism for authorised reporting of any event relating to unidentifi ed anomalous phenomena.”
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The term 'anomalous' in the National Defense Authorization Act 2023's UAP provisions is new terminology, since Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) had previously been expressed as unidentified 'aerial' or 'aerospace' phenomena.
“That is a striking change off the top because 'anomalous' is new. UAP has previously been expressed as unidentified 'aerial' or 'aerospace' phenomena.”
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The James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 (FY 2023 NDAA) defined Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) as unidentified anomalous phenomena, including airborne objects that are not immediately identifiable, transmedium objects or devices, and submerged objects or devices that are not immediately identifiable.
“The FY 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) defined UAP as "unidentified anomalous phenomena," which include: (a) airborne objects that are not immediately identifiable, (b) transmedium objects or devices, and (c) submerged objects or devices that are not immediately identifiable.”
Unclassified Summary of Report No. DODIG-2023-109, "Evaluation of the DoD's Actions Regarding Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena," August 15, 2023 2024-01-24 char:3635-3913 administrative second hand
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The James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 (FY 2023 NDAA) contained additional requirements for the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) to establish a secure way for persons to report a Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) incident without being subject to a nondisclosure agreement or reprisal.
“The FY 2023 NDAA contained additional requirements for AARO to establish a secure way for persons to report a UAP incident without being subject to a nondisclosure agreement or reprisal.”
Unclassified Summary of Report No. DODIG-2023-109, "Evaluation of the DoD's Actions Regarding Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena," August 15, 2023 2024-01-24 char:8824-9001 administrative second hand
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The All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office will publish Volume II of the Historical Record Report in accordance with the date established in Section 6802 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023.
“AARO will publish Volume II in accordance with the date established in Section 6802 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 (FY23)”
Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), Volume I 2024-02-01 char:1235-1383 administrative second hand
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The Historical Record Report is provided by the Department of Defense in response to a requirement established in Section 6802(j) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023, which requires a written report detailing the historical record of the United States Government relating to UAP submitted to congressional defense and intelligence committees and congressional leadership not later than 540 days after enactment of the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023.
“This HR2 is provided by DoD in response to a requirement established in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for FY 2023, Section 6802(j), which states: "Not later than 540 days after the date of the enactment of the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023, the Director of the Office shall submit to the congressional defense committees, the congressional intelligence committees and the congressional leadership a written report detailing the historical record of the United States Government relating to unidentified anomalous phenomena."”
Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), Volume I 2024-02-01 char:16531-17082 administrative second hand
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To meet the direction of Section 1673 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023, AARO sent guidance and requests to the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community elements, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Homeland Security to review and provide any nondisclosure agreements pertaining to UAP.
“In the conduct of this review, and to meet the direction of Section 1673 of the NDAA for FY 2023, AARO sent guidance and requests to DoD, IC elements, DOE, and DHS to review and provide any NDAs pertaining to UAP (or its previous names).”
Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), Volume I 2024-02-01 char:86576-86806 administrative first hand