JP 1, Doctrine for the Armed Forces of the United States - Defense ...

Doctrine Governing Unified Direction of Armed Forces
(e) Functional NSC/IPCs. NSC/IPCs, each chaired at the Under or Assistant
Secretary level within the agency indicated, have been established for 15 various functional
topics. Some of them include: democracy, human rights, and international operations;
counterterrorism and national preparedness; defense strategy, force structure, and planning
(DOD); arms control; proliferation, counterproliferation, and HD; intelligence and
counterintelligence; international organized crime; contingency planning; space; and
international drug control.
(4) While the NSC serves as the principal forum for considering national security
policy issues requiring Presidential determination, the HSC provides a parallel forum for
considering unique HS matters, especially those concerning terrorism within the US.
For more information on the NSC, see CJCSI 5715.01, Joint Staff Participation in
Interagency Affairs, and National Security Presidential Directive-1, Organization of the
National Security Council System.
(5) Homeland Security Council. The HSC is responsible for advising and
assisting the President with respect to all aspects of HS, and serves as the mechanism for
ensuring coordination of HS-related activities of executive departments and agencies and
effective development and implementation of HS policies. Other subcommittees of the HSC
include:
(a) HSC Principals Committee. The HSC/PC is the senior (cabinet-level)
interagency forum for HS issues.
(b) HSC Deputies Committee. The HSC/DC is the senior subcabinet
interagency forum for consideration of policy issues affecting HS. The HSC/DC tasks and
reviews the work of the HSC interagency groups and helps ensure that issues brought before
the HSC/PC or HSC have been properly analyzed and prepared for action.
(c) HSC Interagency Policy Committees. The main forum for interagency
coordination of HS policy, HSC-IPCs coordinate the development and implementation of HS
policies by multiple departments and agencies throughout the USG and coordinate those
policies with state and local government. HSC-IPCs provide policy analysis for
consideration by the more senior committees of the HSC system and ensure timely responses
to Presidential decisions. There are 11 HSC-IPCs established for functional areas such as:
detection, surveillance, and intelligence (intelligence and detection); plans, training,
exercises, and evaluation (policy and plans); WMD consequence management (response and
recovery); key asset, territorial waters and airspace, and security (protection and prevention);
and domestic threat response and incident management (response and recovery).
For more information on the HSC, see CJCSI 5715.01, Joint Staff Participation in
Interagency Affairs, and Homeland Security Presidential Directive-1, Organization and
Operations of the Homeland Security Council.
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