NATIONAL SECURITY MEMORANDUM/nSM-2
SUBJECT: Renewing the Nationwide Safety Council System
To help the President in finishing up his duties within the space of nationwide safety, I hereby direct that the Nationwide Safety Council system be organized as follows.
A. The Nationwide Safety Council
The Nationwide Safety Council (NSC) shall be the principal discussion board for consideration of nationwide safety coverage points requiring Presidential willpower. The features, membership, and duties of the NSC shall be as set forth within the Nationwide Safety Act of 1947, as amended, and this Nationwide Safety Memorandum.
The NSC shall advise and help the President in integrating all features of nationwide safety coverage. Together with its subordinate committees, the NSC shall be the President’s principal means for coordinating govt departments and businesses within the improvement and implementation of nationwide safety coverage, and in long-term strategic planning.
The NSC shall have as its members the President, Vice President, Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of Protection, and Secretary of Vitality, as prescribed by statute. As well as, the membership of the NSC shall embrace the Lawyer Basic, the Secretary of Homeland Safety, the Consultant of the USA of America to the United Nations, the Assistant to the President and Chief of Employees (Chief of Employees to the President), the Assistant to the President for Nationwide Safety Affairs (Nationwide Safety Advisor), the Assistant to the President and Director of the Workplace of Science and Know-how Coverage (OSTP Director), and the Administrator of the United States Company for Worldwide Improvement. The Director of Nationwide Intelligence and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Employees, as designated by statute, and the Director of the Central Intelligence Company, shall attend NSC conferences in an advisory capability. The Counsel to the President and Deputy Counsel to the President and NSC Authorized Advisor (NSC Authorized Advisor) shall be invited to attend each NSC assembly. The Assistant to the President and Deputy Nationwide Safety Advisor (Principal Deputy Nationwide Safety Advisor) shall attend each NSC assembly, and function Secretary.
Given the cross-cutting nature of plenty of vital nationwide safety points — reminiscent of homeland safety, world public well being, worldwide economics, local weather, science and expertise, cybersecurity, migration, and others — the NSC’s common attendees will embrace, as applicable: the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Labor, the Secretary of Well being and Human Providers, the Administrator of the Environmental Safety Company, the Director of the Workplace of Administration and Funds, the USA Commerce Consultant, the Nationwide Cyber Director, the Assistant to the President for Financial Coverage, the Assistant to the President for Home Coverage, the Chairman of the Council of Financial Advisers, the Assistant to the President for Homeland Safety and Deputy Nationwide Safety Advisor (Homeland Safety Advisor), the Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Nationwide Safety Advisor for Cybersecurity and Rising Applied sciences (Deputy Nationwide Safety Advisor for Cybersecurity), the Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Nationwide Safety Advisor for Worldwide Economics (Deputy Nationwide Safety Advisor for Worldwide Economics), the COVID-19 Response Coordinator, or the Particular Presidential Envoy for Local weather. The heads of different govt departments and businesses, and different senior officers, shall be invited to attend conferences of the NSC as applicable.
The NSC shall meet commonly and as required. The Nationwide Safety Advisor, on the President’s course and in session with different members of the NSC, shall be accountable for figuring out the agenda, guaranteeing that vital papers are ready prematurely, and recording and speaking NSC actions and Presidential choices in a well timed method.
B. The Principals Committee
The Principals Committee (PC) would be the senior interagency discussion board for consideration of coverage points affecting nationwide safety. The Nationwide Safety Advisor shall function Chair, and its common members would be the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Protection, the Lawyer Basic, the Secretary of Vitality, the Secretary of Homeland Safety, the Director of the Workplace of Administration and Funds, the Consultant of the USA of America to the United Nations, the Administrator of the USA Company for Worldwide Improvement, and the Chief of Employees to the President. The Director of Nationwide Intelligence, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Employees, and the Director of the Central Intelligence Company shall attend in an advisory capability. The Principal Deputy Nationwide Safety Advisor, the Counsel to the President, the NSC Authorized Advisor, and the Nationwide Safety Advisor to the Vice President shall be invited to attend each assembly of the PC.
Extra common attendees can be added to the PC when cross-cutting nationwide safety points are on the agenda. Relying on the difficulty, these attendees will embrace: the Secretary of Labor, the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Well being and Human Providers, the Administrator of the Environmental Safety Company, the USA Commerce Consultant, the Nationwide Cyber Director, the Assistant to the President for Financial Coverage, the Chairman of the Council of Financial Advisers, the Assistant to the President for Home Coverage, the OSTP Director, the Deputy Nationwide Safety Advisor for Cybersecurity, the Deputy Nationwide Safety Advisor for Worldwide Economics, the COVID-19 Response Coordinator, or the Particular Presidential Envoy for Local weather. When homeland security-related points are on the agenda, common attendees will embrace the Homeland Safety Advisor, who, on the discretion of the Nationwide Safety Advisor, might function Chair. The heads of different govt departments and businesses, together with further senior officers, shall be invited as applicable.
The PC shall meet commonly, and as known as by the Nationwide Safety Advisor. The Nationwide Safety Advisor shall decide the agenda in session with the opposite committee members, and shall be certain that vital papers are ready prematurely and that conclusions and choices are recorded and communicated in a well timed method. In reporting to the President, the Nationwide Safety Advisor will characterize attendee views and variations faithfully.
C. The Deputies Committee
The Deputies Committee (DC) shall evaluate and monitor the work of the NSC interagency course of (together with Interagency Coverage Committees established pursuant to part D beneath) and take into account and, the place applicable, resolve coverage points affecting nationwide safety. The DC shall additionally assist be certain that points being introduced earlier than the PC or the NSC have been correctly analyzed and ready for determination. The DC shall additionally focus vital consideration on coverage implementation and strategic planning. Periodic opinions of my Administration’s main overseas coverage initiatives shall be scheduled to make sure that they’re being carried out in a strategic, coordinated, well timed, and efficient method. Such opinions ought to take into account whether or not current coverage directives needs to be adjusted, refreshed, or rescinded.
The Principal Deputy Nationwide Safety Advisor shall chair the DC. Its members are the Deputy Secretary of State, the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, the Deputy Secretary of Protection, the Deputy Lawyer Basic, the Deputy Secretary of Vitality, the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Safety, the Deputy Director of the Workplace of Administration and Funds, the Deputy Consultant of the United States of America to the United Nations, the Deputy Administrator of the USA Company for Worldwide Improvement, the NSC Authorized Advisor, and the Nationwide Safety Advisor to the Vice President. The Deputy Director of Nationwide Intelligence, the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Employees, and the Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Company shall attend as advisors.
Extra common attendees can be added to the DC when cross-cutting nationwide safety points are on the agenda. Relying on the difficulty, these attendees will embrace: the Deputy Secretary of Labor, the Deputy Secretary of Commerce, the Deputy Secretary of Well being and Human Providers, Assistant Directors of the Environmental Safety Company, Deputy United States Commerce Representatives, the Deputy Nationwide Cyber Administrators, Deputy Administrators of the Nationwide Financial Council, Deputy Administrators of the Home Coverage Council, Affiliate Administrators of the Workplace of Science and Know-how Coverage, the Deputy COVID-19 Response Coordinator, or the Particular Presidential Envoy for Local weather. The Homeland Safety Advisor, the Deputy Nationwide Safety Advisor for Cybersecurity, and the Deputy Nationwide Safety Advisor for Worldwide Economics shall attend the DC when points related to their positions are on the agenda and, on the discretion of the Principal Deputy Nationwide Safety Advisor, might chair the DC. The Chair may additionally invite representatives of different govt departments and businesses, and different senior officers, to attend conferences of the DC as applicable.
The DC shall meet commonly, as known as by the Principal Deputy Nationwide Safety Advisor — or, on the discretion of the Principal Deputy Nationwide Safety Advisor, by a Deputy Nationwide Safety Advisor — in session with the members of the DC. A Deputy Nationwide Safety Advisor can be accountable for figuring out the agenda, guaranteeing that the mandatory papers are ready prematurely, and getting ready and circulating conclusions and choices in a well timed method. The DC shall be certain that all papers to be mentioned by the NSC or the PC absolutely analyze the problems, pretty and adequately set out the info, take into account a full vary of views and choices for determination, and absolutely assess the prospects, dangers, and implications of every.
D. Interagency Coverage Committees
Administration of the event and implementation of nationwide safety insurance policies by a number of businesses of the USA Authorities shall be completed by Interagency Coverage Committees (IPCs). The IPCs shall be the primary day-to-day fora for interagency coordination of nationwide safety coverage. They shall present coverage evaluation for consideration by the extra senior committees of the NSC system and guarantee well timed responses to choices made by the President. The IPCs shall be established on the course of the Nationwide Safety Advisor, and be chaired by his or her designees.
The IPCs shall convene regularly to evaluate and coordinate the implementation of Presidential choices of their coverage areas, and take into account and the place applicable resolve coverage points affecting nationwide safety. Tips shall be established governing the operation of the IPCs, together with participation and scope, mandate, and time frames for determination making.
An early assembly of the DC can be dedicated to establishing the IPCs and offering their mandates for reviewing insurance policies and creating choices of their respective areas, and the DC will meet yearly thereafter to evaluate the checklist of current IPCs and modify it, as vital. The IPCs will change the present system of Coverage Coordination Committees.
E. Basic
The Vice President and I could attend any and all conferences of any entity established by or beneath this memorandum.
This doc is one in a collection of Nationwide Safety Memoranda that, together with Nationwide Safety Examine Memoranda, shall change Nationwide Safety Presidential Memoranda and Area Coverage Directives as devices for speaking Presidential choices about nationwide safety insurance policies of the USA. This memorandum shall supersede all different current Presidential steerage on the group of the Nationwide Safety Council system. With regard to its utility to financial issues, this memorandum shall be interpreted in live performance with any Government Order governing the Nationwide Financial Council and with Presidential paperwork signed hereafter that implement both this memorandum or that Government Order.
JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR.
