Presidential Policy Directives [PPDs] Barack Obama Administration

In the Barack Obama Administration, the directives that are used to promulgate Presidential decisions on national security matters are designated Presidential Policy Directives (PPDs). Directives that are used to initiate policy review procedures are called Presidential Study Directives (PSDs)

Number
PPD 1 PPD 2 PPD 3 PPD 4 PPD 5 PPD 6 PPD 7 PPD 8 PPD 9 PPD 10 PPD 11 PPD 12 PPD 13 PPD 14

Presidential Policy Directive Title

Organization of the National Security Council System Implementation of the National Strategy for Countering Biological Threats (National Strategy) National Space Policy (Fact Sheet) Global Development (Fact Sheet) National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) National Preparedness

Date
02/13/09 11/23/09

06/28/10 09/22/10 01/26/11 03/30/11

Procedures Implementing Section 1022 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 (Fact Sheet)

02/28/12

Sources and Resources

The National Security Policy Process: The National Security Council and Interagency System by Alan G. Whittaker, Shannon A. Brown, Frederick C. Smith, and Ambassador Elizabeth McKune, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University, August 15, 2011 Presidential Policy Directive-2 (PPD-2) Implementing National Strategy for Countering Biological Threats, Public Intelligence, August 16, 2011 Obama Signs Policy Directive on Preparedness by Marc Ambinder, National Journal, April 5, 2011 Obama is "changing the way we do business" on development by Josh Rogin, The Cable, September 22, 2010

The 21st Century Interagency Process, National Security Advisory Gen. James L. Jones, March 19, 2009, via New NSC memo: Jones on the 21st century interagency process by Laura Rozen, The Cable, April 6, 2009 National Security Structure Is Set by Karen DeYoung, Washington Post, February 27, 2009 NSC Gets a Face Lift by Josh Gerstein, Politico, February 27, 2009

Presidential Directives and Executive Orders

President
Truman Eisenhower Kennedy Johnson Nixon Ford Carter Reagan Bush Clinton GW Bush Obama

Review Directive

Decision Directive
NSC NSC NSAM NSAM

NSSM NSSM PRM NSSD NSR PRD NSPD PSD

NSDM NSDM PD NSDD NSD PDD NSPD PPD

VARIOUS

Executive Orders

The National Security Council (NSC) is the principal forum for Presidential consideration of foreign policy issues and national security matters. Persuant to policy review directives, the NSC gathers facts and views of appropriate Government agencies, conducts analyses, determines alternatives, and presents to the President policy choices for decision. The President's decisions are announced by decision directives.

Related Resources

The National Security Council: A Legal History of the President's Most Powerful Advisers by Cody M. Brown, Project on National Security Reform, December 2008 Presidential Directives: Background and Overview by Harold C. Relyea, Congressional Research Service Legal Effectiveness of A Presidential Directive, as Compared to an Executive Order, Office of Legal Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice, January 29, 2000 National Security: The Use of Presidential Directives to Make and Implement U.S. Policy, General Accounting Office report NSIAD-92-72, January 1992 History of the National Security Council 1947-1997 State Department Historian - August 1997 Presidential Directives on National Security from Truman to Clinton from the National Security Archive Foreign Relations of the United States Volumes Online

Official Intelligence-Related Documents

National Intelligence Strategy of the United States of America, August 2009 Final Report of the WMD Commission, March 31, 2005 Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States Congressional Debates and Other Material Presidential Directives and Executive Orders Director of Central Intelligence Directives Department of Defense Directives on Intelligence Laws and Federal Regulations on Intelligence Congressional Research Service Reports

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