NSPM-12 continues the mid-2026 national-security memorandum cascade, expanding policy set outside Federal Register rulemaking norms.

Cryptographic security and quantum innovation orders expand national-security tech directives while the administration simultaneously rejects binding AI safety licensing.

E.O. 14412 directs agencies to secure the nation against advanced cryptographic attacks, expanding national-security tech mandates.

NSPM-11 adds national-security presidential memorandum authority outside ordinary notice-and-comment, concentrating sensitive directives in executive memoranda.