David Grusch
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first heard Jan 2026
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But because of some of these advanced UAS and anomalous detections, you know, has changed our threat picture.
And certainly the intelligence community is aware of this.
And there were, you know, legacy programs tackling this.
And I'll call it rice bowls or stovepipes.
And a lot of that data was not shared with me and my team at NGA.
And ironically, not even with the AERO office that's currently been instantiated at the Pentagon to try to tackle this issue from a over perspective.
So all I wanted to really, you know, talk about, we can obviously have a discussion after I, you know, mentioned this, but it's just whether those sources, you know, peer adversary breakthrough, some sort of unacknowledged platform, or a genuinely unresolved signature sets, you know, the strategic requirements still going to be the same.
And, and that's persistent sensing, rapid attribution, resilient networks and decision quality data machine speed are really going to be needed to
to affect this problem set in the future so we reduce strategic surprise and help build our space-enabled defense architecture worthy of the threat environment and likely the scientific discovery ahead now that the president has promised back in February to release all we know on some of these anomalous signature sets and things that we've recovered and exploited over the last couple of decades.
Yeah, having spent 15 years in the IC at the highest levels, you know, handled the presidential daily brief, I was cleared to most, you know, DoD special access programs.
I saw a sharing issue amongst that ecosystem, but also a 9-11-like intelligence sharing problem where there were certain centers of excellence that
that were sequestering this information.
And the government was starting to spend capital on this problem set overtly, but it turned out the government had, you know, decades and decades of information and, you know, recovered FMA, FME material.
And I thought that was a huge issue.
And once again, it wasn't being reported to Congress.
So back in 2022, I went to the ICIG, um,
with people that worked on those programs to blow the whistle, and I subsequently briefed the Senate and House Intelligence Committees in a classified environment, in a compartmented environment, on those details.
Yeah, I think there should be a public acknowledgement strategy.
Some of that needs to come from the White House in terms of how much that we acknowledge and reveal to the public.
But I would like to see greater integration with this problem set in our architectures.
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