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The bill centralizes federal resilience planning and technical support—potentially improving preparedness for communities and military installations—but creates new coordination obligations without explicit funding and leaves unresolved transparency, legal, and long-term continuity risks.
State, local, tribal, and territorial governments — and the rural and urban communities they serve — gain a coordinated National Resilience Strategy, centralized hazard data, and clearer federal technical assistance, making it easier to plan for sea level rise, drought, and other hazards and to access federal support for resilience projects.
Military installations domestically and abroad receive directed resilience planning to reduce mission disruption from natural hazards, improving continuity of operations for military personnel and national security readiness.
Federal investments and programs may become more efficient and less duplicative under centralized coordination, potentially saving taxpayer dollars and improving program outcomes.
State, local, tribal governments and federal agencies may incur new interagency coordination and administrative obligations without dedicated funding, imposing unfunded costs and straining already-tight budgets.
Ambiguity in legal authorities and a lack of detailed deadlines could slow implementation and produce uneven agency participation, reducing the effectiveness of resilience actions where they are most needed.
Excluding the Council from the Federal Advisory Committee Act may reduce transparency and federal oversight of the Council's operations, limiting external accountability and stakeholder trust.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Creates a Chief Resilience Officer at the NSC and requires interagency working groups to develop a National Resilience Strategy and coordinate federal resilience efforts.
Official title: Amend the National Security Act of 1947 to require the Federal Government to produce a national resilience strategy, and for other purposes.
Introduced July 20, 2026 by Christopher A. Coons · Last progress July 20, 2026
Creates a Chief Resilience Officer (CRO) within the National Security Council and requires an interagency process to coordinate federal resilience planning. The CRO must convene working groups, develop a National Resilience Strategy, coordinate resilience for natural hazards and military installations, and assess how federal investments promote resilience and reduce waste. The bill adds a new statutory provision to the National Security Act of 1947 establishing the CRO role, interagency working groups, and a Federal Partners Council on Resilience, and it requires agencies to detail personnel and provide resources to the effort when requested.