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Jon T. Kosloski
Director 路 AARO (in post) PhD Electrical Engineering Former NSA Research Directorate 馃嚭馃嚫 United States
Bio
Jon T. Kosloski is the current Director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), appointed on 26 August 2024 on detail from the National Security Agency. He succeeded Acting Director Tim Phillips, who continued as Deputy Director under Kosloski until July 2025. Kosloski holds undergraduate degrees in mathematics and physics from California State University, San Bernardino, and a PhD in electrical engineering from Johns Hopkins University.
Prior to AARO, Kosloski held technical and leadership positions within the Research Directorate of the National Security Agency, where he led advanced networking and computing mission-oriented research, served as a free-space-optics expert, and provided technical advice to multiple Department of Defense agencies.
On UAP
Kosloski's public position since taking the AARO directorship has been measured. AARO under his leadership has continued the formal investigative methodology established under his predecessor Sean Kirkpatrick, with the office position remaining that no verifiable evidence of extraterrestrial activity or technology has yet been identified in the body of cases under review. AARO publishes annual reports to Congress, makes case-resolution data available in the FY24 Consolidated Annual Report on UAP, and continues to accept new reports through its established intake channel.
Kosloski's predecessor in the deputy role, Tim Phillips, gave a series of public interviews in 2025 that diverged substantively from the AARO formal position. Kosloski has not publicly addressed the Phillips disclosures or the circumstances of Phillips's July 2025 termination by ODNI.
Notable Public Statements
"AARO has not discovered any verifiable evidence of extraterrestrial activity, off-world technology, or objects that defy the known laws of physics."
"AARO continues to take all reports seriously, to apply rigorous scientific methodology, and to follow the data where it leads. The vast majority of cases AARO investigates resolve to mundane objects upon analysis."
Where to Find Them
In the Archive
Editorial note. Kosloski is the only sitting government official catalogued in The Disclosure Network from the AARO leadership lineage. This profile is built strictly from on-record statements: his Statement for the Record to the Senate Armed Services Committee, the FY24 Consolidated Annual Report on UAP, the November 2024 media roundtable transcript, and AARO's official communications. No editorial framing of motive or politics. The page will be updated as further public statements are issued. If anything on this profile needs correcting, please get in touch.
