The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022, signed into law in December 2021, included a Gillibrand-Rubio amendment creating the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG) as the Pentagon's first statutorily mandated UAP coordination office.

The provision required the new office to synchronize UAP detection and reporting across DoD components, coordinate with the Intelligence Community, and submit annual unclassified reports to Congress. AOIMSG was renamed and expanded to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) by Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks on July 20, 2022.