Sources: Jon Kosloski Biography

Bibliography for the biography exhibition page at /biographies/jon-kosloski/. Sources are numbered and grouped by category.

Primary government sources

1. All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office. “Dr. Jon T. Kosloski: Director.” Official biography, aaro.mil. Accessed 10 June 2026. URL: https://www.aaro.mil/About/Leaders/Biography-View/Article/3973108/dr-jon-t-kosloski/

2. U.S. Department of Defense. “Department of Defense Announces the New Director, All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office.” Press release, 26 August 2024. URL: https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3884318/department-of-defense-announces-the-new-director-all-domain-anomaly-resolution/

3. All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office. “Statement for the Record: Dr. Jon Kosloski, Director, All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities, November 19, 2024.” Published on aaro.mil. URL: https://www.aaro.mil/Portals/136/PDFs/Dr_Jon_Kosloski_Statement_for_the_Record_SASC_Open_Hearing_Nov2024.pdf

4. U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee. “Hearing: Open/Closed: To receive testimony on the activities of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office.” Hearing page, 19 November 2024. URL: https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/hearings/to-receive-testimony-on-the-activities-of-the-all-domain-anomaly-resolution-office

5. U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee. Transcript: “To Receive Testimony on the Activities of the All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office,” Tuesday, 19 November 2024. URL: https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/download/11-19-24_-sub---transcript

6. C-SPAN. “Oversight Hearing on All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office and UAPs/UFOs,” 19 November 2024. URL: https://www.c-span.org/program/senate-committee/oversight-hearing-on-all-domain-anomaly-resolution-office-and-uaps-ufos/652316

7. All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office. Opening Remarks, Dr. Jon Kosloski, 19 November 2024. URL: https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/aaro_opening_remarks.pdf

Named press coverage (cited inline)

8. DefenseScoop. “Top NSA researcher tapped to lead Pentagon’s UAP investigation hub,” 26 August 2024. URL: https://defensescoop.com/2024/08/26/leader-pentagon-uap-investigation-hub-jon-kosloski/

9. DefenseScoop. “‘The truly anomalous’: New AARO chief unveils Pentagon’s annual UAP caseload analysis, new efforts,” 14 November 2024. URL: https://defensescoop.com/2024/11/14/uap-aaro-chief-unveils-pentagon-annual-caseload-analysis-new-efforts/

10. MeriTalk. “DoD Appoints NSA’s Jon Kosloski to Head UFO Office,” 26 August 2024. URL: https://www.meritalk.com/articles/dod-appoints-nsas-jon-kosloski-to-head-ufo-office/

11. MeriTalk. “AARO Director Calls for Ongoing Support to Investigate UAPs,” November 2024. URL: https://www.meritalk.com/articles/aaro-director-calls-for-ongoing-support-to-investigate-uaps/

12. NewsNation. “Pentagon appoints new director of UAP investigative office AARO,” 26 August 2024. URL: https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/pentagon-director-ufo-uap-office-aaro/

13. NewsNation. “UAP hearing in Senate sees AARO director testify,” 19 November 2024. URL: https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/aaro-director-testify-uap-hearing/

14. ABC News. “UFO sleuths want fewer secrets in Trump-era investigations,” 4 June 2025. URL: https://abcnews.com/Politics/ufo-sleuths-fewer-secrets-trump-era-investigations/story?id=121811368

15. DefenseScoop. “Pentagon’s AARO quietly held an invite-only workshop to help shape the future of UAP research,” 16 March 2026. URL: https://defensescoop.com/2026/03/16/dod-ufo-workshop-uap-research-aaro/

16. StarTalk Radio. “The Truth About UAPs with Jon Kosloski,” 5 August 2025. URL: https://startalkmedia.com/show/the-truth-about-uaps-with-jon-kosloski/

Research gaps

• Birth date and personal biography: No birth date, birth location, or personal details are recorded in any government or named press source. Omitted from the biography.

• Education dates: Neither the AARO official biography nor any named press source provides dates for Kosloski’s undergraduate or doctoral degrees. The degrees are stated without dates.

• NSA career dates and specific assignments: The official AARO biography names the Research Directorate, Free Space Optics, crypto-mathematics, the language-agnostic search engine, and the Special Communications Enterprise Office, but provides no dates for any of these assignments. The career span at NSA is documented only as “most of my career” per Kosloski’s Senate testimony. Flagged for Cowork.

• NIST collaboration details: The AARO biography states Kosloski “worked with scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology to demonstrate the abilities of his designs.” No further detail (dates, publications, specific NIST facility) is on the public record. Flagged for Cowork; academic publication databases may yield additional primary sources.

• AARO FY2024 Consolidated Annual Report: Referenced in DefenseScoop reporting (14 November 2024) and in Kosloski’s Senate testimony. The full report was not independently retrieved for this biography. Flagged for Cowork to obtain and verify statistics cited.

• Tim Phillips acting directorship: The biography documents Phillips’s role as a procedural succession fact (acting director December 2023 to August 2024). His July 2025 ODNI termination is not referenced in this biography; that material belongs to the Phillips biography (next in the batch). Cross-reference consistency between the two biographies should be verified during Cowork review.

Sources compiled by Quill (Agent 1.4), 10 June 2026. Verification date for all URLs: 10 June 2026.