Governance and Integration of Federal Mission Resilience

The order establishes the Federal Mission Resilience Executive Committee — composed of the Secretaries of Defense and Homeland Security, the Director of National Intelligence, the National Security Advisor, the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, and the OMB Director — to coordinate implementation of a companion Federal Mission Resilience Strategy across the executive branch. The committee is directed to produce a charter, an implementation plan, and a set of policy-alignment recommendations on set deadlines. It also amends Presidential Policy Directive-40 to make the National Security Advisor the new National Continuity Coordinator.

The order amends Executive Order 13618 to transfer national security and emergency preparedness committee responsibilities to the new Executive Committee, delegates emergency communications authority under the Communications Act of 1934 to the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and repurposes an existing Joint Program Office to support the new committee. The order does not itself change any underlying continuity policy; actual changes depend on the plan and recommendations the committee produces.

Senior officials at the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Office of Management and Budget, and Office of Science and Technology Policy, as well as all executive branch agency heads responsible for maintaining continuity programs under Presidential Policy Directive-40.

Executive branch agencies must now coordinate continuity and risk management planning through a new senior committee rather than in agency silos. The practical effect is a governance reshuffling that determines who drives federal crisis-preparedness decisions and holds authority for national continuity coordination.

The Executive Committee, convened by the National Security Advisor, works in sequential stages: a charter identifying subordinate bodies and reporting mechanisms is due at 90 days; simultaneously, an implementation plan detailing near-, mid-, and long-term actions for preserving National Essential Functions is also due at 90 days. Policy-alignment recommendations follow at 120 days, all submitted to the President through the Chief of Staff. An existing Joint Program Office originally created by EO 13618 is repurposed to staff and support the new committee, providing an existing administrative infrastructure.