National Security Presidential Memorandum/NSPM-12

The White House

SUBJECT: National Policy for the Cybersecurity of National Security Systems

As President, it is my priority to ensure that the United States can conduct key military and intelligence missions in contested cyber environments and that our personnel have access to the modern, secure technology they need to accomplish these missions. The Department of War (DOW), Intelligence Community (IC), and Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) Agencies own or operate this technology as National Security Systems (NSS). It shall be the policy of the United States Government that these systems be defended to the greatest extent practicable and that executive department and agency (agency) heads be accountable for this defense through government-wide oversight mechanisms. Therefore, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, including section 3557 of title 44, United States Code, and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, it is hereby ordered:

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