National Coordination on Resilience for Security Act of 2026

Key Points

• The bill creates a Chief Resilience Officer inside the National Security Council to coordinate federal efforts to prepare for natural disasters and environmental risks like wildfires, floods, and sea level rise.
• Federal agencies must produce a National Resilience Strategy within two years of enactment, updated every three years, covering both community and military installation resilience.
• A new 24-member Partners Council on Resilience, made up mostly of state, local, tribal, and private sector representatives, will advise on how to help communities, especially rural and underresourced ones, become more resilient.
• An Adaptation and Resilience Clearinghouse will be created within one year to give local governments a central place to find data and technical help for resilience projects and grant applications.
• The Council is specifically exempted from the open-government requirements of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, meaning some of its work may not be subject to the usual public transparency rules.
• All of these new requirements automatically expire after 10 years or after the third Government Accountability Office assessment report, whichever comes first.