Paul Kaminski
Paul G. Kaminski is a former senior U.S. defense acquisition official who served as Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology from October 3, 1994, to May 16, 1997 — the office referred to in UAP research as "Ostat" or "OUSD(AT)," and the specific office Vice Admiral Thomas Wilson investigated in 1997 according to the Wilson-Davis Memo. Kaminski holds an aeronautics doctorate and degrees from the U.S. Air Force Academy, MIT, and Stanford. He served as a permanent member of the Special Access Program Oversight Committee (SAPOC) in his OUSD(AT) capacity, and has more recently served on the board of directors of MITRE Corporation, as well as the boards of Axient and Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.
| Role | Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology (1994–1997); MITRE Corporation board member |
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Role in UAP Programs
UAP Gerb's Special Access Required Vol.2 identifies Kaminski as the Ostat/OUSD(AT) official in office at the time of Wilson's 1997 investigation into a crash retrieval and reverse engineering program, and states the presenter has "direct knowledge" that Kaminski was "a very senior individual within the UFO legacy program portfolio." The video connects Kaminski's SAPOC membership and later MITRE board seat to its broader thesis that senior officials who oversaw DoD Special Access Program governance in the 1990s went on to hold influential positions at federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs) alleged to be involved in non-human technology exploitation.