Government & military
Kathleen Hicks
Defense official directing UAP reorganization
Photograph · Image credit
Who they are
Kathleen Hicks was Deputy Secretary of Defense when the department announced the establishment of the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group in November 2021. The released briefing card identifies her direction behind that change. Her connection is an organizational decision about UAP responsibilities, rather than personal authorship of sighting analyses.
She links the timeline’s modern UAP offices to the officials directing their formation.
Selected contributions
- Issued the direction underlying the announced AOIMSG organizational change.Source ↗
Primary records
Archival document · 2021
AOIMSG Establishment: OSD(PA) briefing card
This Defense Department briefing card explains the announced reorganization of UAP work and identifies Hicks’s direction to establish AOIMSG. It records the government’s public-affairs framing of the change.
Briefing card dated November 23, 2021; released later through FOIA case 22-F-0381.
Reading scope & citation
Reuses the input’s documented prior inspection: Relevant supporting passages inspected; not a blanket claim of cover-to-cover review This is a hosted copy of the named creator’s record; the host is not an independent confirming source. No fresh full-work reread in this directory pass.
In the timeline
- Nov 23, 2021The Defense Department announces AOIMSG
Biography sources & portrait credit
- AOIMSG Establishment: OSD(PA) briefing card ↗Department of Defense; The Black Vault FOIA copy
Portrait credit
United States Department of Defense. Public domain (U.S. federal government work). Via Wikimedia Commons.
Photograph. Cropped to 4:5, resized to 320 × 400 and converted to WebP.
Image source & identification ↗ · Public domain (U.S. federal government work) ↗
