Presidential Policy Directive 21 (PPD-21), Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience explicitly calls for the development of an updated national plan.

In July of 2016, Presidential Policy Directive 41: United States Cyber Incident Coordination Policy (PPD-41) was issued by President Barack Obama. This new directive sets forth principles governing the Federal Government's response to any cyber incidents and provides architecture for coordinating the response to significant cyber incidents. Specifically, the PPD establishes three Federal lines of effort for any cyber incident: threat response; asset response; and intelligence support and related activities. This PPD also establishes lead Federal agencies responsibilities for coordinating Federal responses to significant cyber incidents.

The NIPP fulfills this requirement as it formalizes and strengthens existing critical infrastructure partnerships, and creates the baseline for how the public and private sectors will work together.

In addition, the National Plan fulfills requirements in Homeland Security Act of 2002 and is consistent with Executive Order 13636: Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity (2013); and aligns with the goal of Presidential Policy Directive 8 (PPD-8): National Preparedness (2011) and its supporting National Planning Frameworks: and two other policy documents: the President’s Climate Action Plan (2013); and the National Strategy for Information Sharing and Safeguarding (2013).

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