Presidential Policy Directives (PPD's)

The previous page provided you with an overview of the HSPD's issued during the Bush Administration. Under the Obama Administration, the following unclassified PPD's were issued.

• PPD - 1 Organization of the National Security Council System (February 13, 2009)
• PPD - 2 Implementation of the National Strategy for Countering Biological Threats (November 23, 2009)
• PPD - 8 National Preparedness (March 30, 2011)
• PPD - 14 Procedures Implementing Section 1022 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 (February 28, 2012)
• PPD - 19 Protecting Whistleblowers with Access to Classified Information (October 10, 2012)
• PPD - 20 U.S. Cyber Operations Policy (October 16, 2012)
• PPD - 21 Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience (February 12, 2013)
• PPD - 27 United States Conventional Arms Transfer Policy (January 15, 2014)
• PPD - 28 Signals Intelligence Activities (January 17, 2014)
• PPD - 30 U.S. Nationals Taken Hostage Abroad and Personnel Recovery Efforts (June 24, 2015)
• PPD - 35 United States Nuclear Weapons Command and Control, Safety and Security (December 8, 2015)
• PPD - 40 National Continuity Policy (July 1, 2016)
• PPD 41 United States Cyber Incident Coordination (July 26, 2016)
• PPD 43 United States-Cuba Coordination (October 14, 2016)

PPD - 8 and PPD 21 will be discussed in-depth in a future lessons.