Inspector General announcement
On 3 May 2021, the United States' Department of Defense Office of Inspector General, announced a new project. "Evaluation of the DoD's Actions Regarding the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (Project No. D2021-DEVOSN-0116.000)." I image the two page announcement document below.
Role of the Inspector General
According to the DoD OIG's website:
"The Department of Defense Office of Inspector General was established in 1982. The mission of the DoD OIG, as established by the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended (5 U.S.C. Appendix); and implemented by DoD Directive 5106.01. "Inspector General of the Department of Defense," is to serve as an independent and objective office in DoD to:
Conduct, supervise, monitor and initiate audits, evaluations, and investigations relating to programs and operations of the Department of Defense.
Provide leadership and coordination and recommend policies for activities designed to promote economy, efficiency, and effectiveness in the administration of, and to prevent and detect fraud and abuse in such programs and operations.
Provide a means for keeping the Secretary of Defense and the Congress fully and currently informed about problems and deficiencies relating to the administration of such programs and operations and the necessity for and progress of corrective action."
This specific project
The two page memorandum is addressed to a wide range of recipients, namely:
Secretaries of the Military Departments
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering
Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security
Commander U.S. Central Command
Commander U.S. Northern Command
Commander U.S. Special Operations Command
Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Director Defense Intelligence Agency
Director, Defense Threat Reduction Agency
Director, Missile Defense Agency
Director, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Director, National Reconnaissance Office
Director, National Security Agency/Central Security Service
Director, Defense Technology Security Administration
Auditor General, Department of Navy
Auditor General, The Department of the Navy
Auditor General, Department of the Air Force.
The initial paragraph of the memorandum reads:
"We plan to begin the subject evaluation in May 2021. The objective of this evaluation is to determine the extent to which the DoD has taken actions regarding Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP). We may revise the objective as the evaluation proceeds, and we will consider suggestions from from management for additional or revised objectives.
It then goes on to request a point of contact for each of the addresses within five days.
The memorandum is signed by Randolph R. Stone, Assistant Inspector General for Evaluations, Space, Intelligence, Engineering and Oversight."
Products
When a review is complete the DoD OIG produces a report which is available on their website. Recent examples are to be found here and here. It also provides a semiannual report to the Congress.
A question
An obvious question arises; which is why has the DoD OIG decided to conduct an evaluation "...to determine the extent to which the DoD has taken actions regarding Unidentified Aerial Phenomena..."? At the moment, only time will tell.
Acknowledgement:
Thank you to Boston based, UFO historian and researcher, Barry Greenwood for pointing out the existence of this announcement.
They've suddenly realised that they need to figure out who knows what!
ReplyDeleteKeith, The notice likely stemmed from a 3-25-21 article in Politico by Bryan Bender that the UAP Task Force was being rebuffed by military services in the quest for UAP information, the net result being that the Task Force report might be delayed from its proposed June release date. It is said members of Congress complained about this and the Inspector General acted.
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