# 80 FR 11317: Establishment of the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center > Federal · Memoranda · In force URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/EXEC_2015-04443 ## Section - **Citation:** 80 FR 11317 - **Heading:** Establishment of the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center - **Jurisdiction:** Federal - **Kind:** Memoranda - **Status:** In force - **Text as of:** August 14, 2026 - **Source:** Compiled text - **Location:** Presidential Documents / Memorandum / 2015-04443 ## Text [Federal Register Volume 80, Number 41 (Tuesday, March 3, 2015)] [Presidential Documents] [Pages 11317-11318] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2015-04443] Presidential Documents Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 41 / Tuesday, March 3, 2015 / Presidential Documents ___________________________________________________________________ Title 3-- The President [[Page 11317]] Memorandum of February 25, 2015 Establishment of the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center Memorandum for the Secretary of State[,] the Secretary of Defense[,] the Secretary of the Treasury[,] the Secretary of Commerce[,] the Attorney General[,] the Secretary of Homeland Security[,] the Director of National Intelligence[,] the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff[,] the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency[,] the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation[, and] the Director of the National Security Agency By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby direct as follows: Section 1. Establishment of the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center. The Director of National Intelligence (DNI) shall establish a Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center (CTIIC). Executive departments and agencies (agencies) shall support the DNI's efforts to establish the CTIIC, including by providing, as appropriate, personnel and resources needed for the CTIIC to reach full operating capability by the end of fiscal year 2016. Threat Intelligence Integration Center (CTIIC). Executive departments and agencies (agencies) shall support the DNI's efforts to establish the CTIIC, including by providing, as appropriate, personnel and resources needed for the CTIIC to reach full operating capability by the end of fiscal year 2016. Sec. 2. Responsibilities of the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center. The CTIIC shall: (a) provide integrated all-source analysis of intelligence related to foreign cyber threats or related to cyber incidents affecting U.S. national interests; (b) support the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center, the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force, U.S. Cyber Command, and other relevant United States Government entities by providing access to intelligence necessary to carry out their respective missions; (c) oversee the development and implementation of intelligence sharing capabilities (including systems, programs, policies, and standards) to enhance shared situational awareness of intelligence related to foreign cyber threats or related to cyber incidents affecting U.S. national interests among the organizations referenced in subsection (b) of this section; sharing capabilities (including systems, programs, policies, and standards) to enhance shared situational awareness of intelligence related to foreign cyber threats or related to cyber incidents affecting U.S. national interests among the organizations referenced in subsection (b) of this section; (d) ensure that indicators of malicious cyber activity and, as appropriate, related threat reporting contained in intelligence channels are downgraded to the lowest classification possible for distribution to both United States Government and U.S. private sector entities through the mechanism described in section 4 of Executive Order 13636 of February 12, 2013 (Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity); and (e) facilitate and support interagency efforts to develop and implement coordinated plans to counter foreign cyber threats to U.S. national interests using all instruments of national power, including diplomatic, economic, military, intelligence, homeland security, and law enforcement activities. Sec. 3. Implementation. (a) Agencies shall provide the CTIIC with all intelligence related to foreign cyber threats or related to cyber incidents affecting U.S. national interests, subject to applicable law and policy omic, military, intelligence, homeland security, and law enforcement activities. Sec. 3. Implementation. (a) Agencies shall provide the CTIIC with all intelligence related to foreign cyber threats or related to cyber incidents affecting U.S. national interests, subject to applicable law and policy. The CTIIC shall access, assess, use, retain, and disseminate such information, in a manner that protects privacy and civil liberties and is consistent with applicable law, Executive Orders, Presidential directives, and guidelines, such as guidelines established under section 102A(b) of the National Security Act of 1947, as amended, Executive Order 12333 of December 4, 1981 (United [[Page 11318]] States Intelligence Activities), as amended, and Presidential Policy Directive-28; and that is consistent with the need to protect sources and methods. (b) Within 90 days of the date of this memorandum, the DNI, in consultation with the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Director of the National Security Agency shall provide a status report to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism on the establishment of the CTIIC the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Director of the National Security Agency shall provide a status report to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism on the establishment of the CTIIC. This report shall further refine the CTIIC's mission, roles, and responsibilities, consistent with this memorandum, ensuring that those roles and responsibilities are appropriately aligned with other Presidential policies as well as existing policy coordination mechanisms. Sec. 4. Privacy and Civil Liberties Protections. Agencies providing information to the CTIIC shall ensure that privacy and civil liberties protections are provided in the course of implementing this memorandum. Such protections shall be based upon the Fair Information Practice Principles or other privacy and civil liberties policies, principles, and frameworks as they apply to each agency's activities. Sec. 5. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this memorandum shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect: (i) the authority granted by law to an executive department, agency, or the head thereof; or (ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals. (b) This memorandum shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations. ority granted by law to an executive department, agency, or the head thereof; or (ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals. (b) This memorandum shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations. (c) This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person. (d) The DNI is hereby authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register. (Presidential Sig.) THE WHITE HOUSE, Washington, February 25, 2015 [FR Doc. 2015-04443 Filed 3-2-15; 8:45 am] Billing code 3910-A7 CONTENTS Federal Register&thnsp;/&thnsp;Vol. 80, No. 41&thnsp;/&thnsp;Tuesday, March 3, 2015&thnsp;/&thnsp;Contents [[Page iii]] Administrative Office of United States Courts NOTICES Hearing: Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Rules of Appellate Procedure, 11387 Agency for International Development NOTICES Privacy Act; Systems of Records, 11387–11393 Agricultural Marketing Service PROPOSED RULES Imported Table Grapes and Grapes Grown in a Designated Area of Southeastern California: Handling Requirements, 11346–11349 Oranges, Grapefruit, Tangerines, and Tangelos Grown in Florida: Marketing Orders, 11335–11346 Agriculture Department See Agricultural Marketing Service See Forest Service Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau PROPOSED RULES Viticultural Areas: Los Olivos District, 11355–11361 pes Grown in a Designated Area of Southeastern California: Handling Requirements, 11346–11349 Oranges, Grapefruit, Tangerines, and Tangelos Grown in Florida: Marketing Orders, 11335–11346 Agriculture Department See Agricultural Marketing Service See Forest Service Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau PROPOSED RULES Viticultural Areas: Los Olivos District, 11355–11361 Army Department NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals, 11425–11426 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention NOTICES Meetings: Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, 11441–11442 Children and Families Administration NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals, 11442 Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: ORR – 2 Quarterly Report on Expenditures and Obligations, 11442–11443 Civil Rights Commission NOTICES Meetings; Sunshine Act, 11394 Coast Guard PROPOSED RULES Vessel Documentation Renewal Fees, 11361–11362 Commerce Department See First Responder Network Authority See Foreign-Trade Zones Board See Industry and Security Bureau See International Trade Administration See National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commission of Fine Arts NOTICES Meetings: Commission of Fine Arts, 11413 Defense Department See Army Department See Navy Department NOTICES Arms Sales, 11413–11415 Revised Non-Foreign Overseas Per Diem Rates, 11415–11425 Energy Department See Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Environmental Protection Agency RULES Air Quality State Implementation Plans; Approvals and Promulgations: Missouri; St. Louis Inspection and Maintenance Program, 11323–11326 Texas; Approval of Substitution for Transportation Control Measures, 11321–11323 PROPOSED RULES Significant New Use Rules: Certain Chemical Substances; Comment Period Extension, 11361 n Environmental Protection Agency RULES Air Quality State Implementation Plans; Approvals and Promulgations: Missouri; St. Louis Inspection and Maintenance Program, 11323–11326 Texas; Approval of Substitution for Transportation Control Measures, 11321–11323 PROPOSED RULES Significant New Use Rules: Certain Chemical Substances; Comment Period Extension, 11361 Executive Office of the President See Presidential Documents Federal Aviation Administration RULES Special Conditions: Cessna Aircraft Company, Model 650, Citation VII Airplane; as modified by Universal Avionics Systems Corporation; Installed Rechargeable Lithium Batteries and Battery Systems, 11319–11321 Federal Communications Commission RULES Foreign Carrier Entry into the U.S. Telecommunications Market, 11326–11328 Implementation of the STELA Reauthorization Act, 11328–11330 NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals, 11434–11437 Federal Energy Regulatory Commission NOTICES Combined Filings, 11426–11432 Petitions for Declaratory Orders: Sunoco Pipeline LP, 11432 Preliminary Determinations of Qualifying Conduit Hydropower Facilities: Cub River Irrigation Co., 11432–11433 Preliminary Permit Applications: Paul Greyshock, 11433–11434 Waiver Requests: Enable Bakken Crude Services, LLC, 11434 [[Page iv]] Federal Railroad Administration NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals, 11518–11521 Federal Reserve System PROPOSED RULES Risk-Based Capital Guidelines: Implementation of Capital Requirements for Global Systemically Important Bank Holding Companies, 11349–11350 NOTICES Formations of, Acquisitions by, and Mergers of Bank Holding Companies, 11437 Federal Trade Commission NOTICES Proposed Consent Orders: Health Discovery Corp., 11437–11441 Fine Arts Commission See Commission of Fine Arts k-Based Capital Guidelines: Implementation of Capital Requirements for Global Systemically Important Bank Holding Companies, 11349–11350 NOTICES Formations of, Acquisitions by, and Mergers of Bank Holding Companies, 11437 Federal Trade Commission NOTICES Proposed Consent Orders: Health Discovery Corp., 11437–11441 Fine Arts Commission See Commission of Fine Arts First Responder Network Authority NOTICES Meetings: First Responder Network Authority Board, 11394–11395 First Responder Network Authority Board; Teleconference, 11395 Fish and Wildlife Service NOTICES Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.: South Coast Resource Management Plan Amendment; Upper Santa Ana River Habitat Conservation Plan and Land Exchange, 11463–11466 Food and Drug Administration NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Current Good Manufacturing Practices and Related Regulations for Blood and Blood Components, etc., 11444–11449 Investigational New Drug Applications, 11449–11454 Notification of a Health Claim or Nutrient Content Claim Based on an Authoritative Statement of a Scientific Body, 11443–11444 Meetings: Measuring Dystrophin in Dystrophinopathy Patients and Interpreting the Data; Public Scientific Workshops, 11454–11455 Pediatric Neurocognitive; Advancing the Development of Pediatric Therapeutics; Public Workshops, 11455–11456 Foreign Assets Control Office NOTICES Blocking or Unblocking of Persons and Properties, 11522–11524 Foreign-Trade Zones Board NOTICES Subzone Status; Approvals: Red Wing Shoe Co., Salt Lake City, UT, 11396 Spenco Medical Corp., Waco, TX, 11395–11396 Forest Service NOTICES Meetings: Black Hills National Forest Advisory Board, 11393–11394 Therapeutics; Public Workshops, 11455–11456 Foreign Assets Control Office NOTICES Blocking or Unblocking of Persons and Properties, 11522–11524 Foreign-Trade Zones Board NOTICES Subzone Status; Approvals: Red Wing Shoe Co., Salt Lake City, UT, 11396 Spenco Medical Corp., Waco, TX, 11395–11396 Forest Service NOTICES Meetings: Black Hills National Forest Advisory Board, 11393–11394 Health and Human Services Department See Centers for Disease Control and Prevention See Children and Families Administration See Food and Drug Administration See National Institutes of Health NOTICES Meetings: National Preparedness and Response Science Board, 11441 Homeland Security Department See Coast Guard NOTICES Ideation Prize Competition, 11459–11462 Indian Affairs Bureau NOTICES Funding Availabilities: Climate Change Adaptation and Coastal Management to Federally Recognized Indian Tribes, 11466–11467 Submission Deadlines: Completed Applications for Tribal Self-Governance Program in Fiscal Year 2016 or Calendar Year 2016, 11467 Industry and Security Bureau PROPOSED RULES U.S. Industrial Base Surveys Pursuant to the Defense Production Act, 11350–11355 Interior Department See Fish and Wildlife Service See Indian Affairs Bureau See Land Management Bureau See National Indian Gaming Commission See Ocean Energy Management Bureau NOTICES Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations under Cobell Settlement, 11462–11463 International Trade Administration NOTICES Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Investigations, Orders, or Reviews: Hand Trucks and Certain Parts Thereof from the People's Republic of China, 11396–11398 Justice Department NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Office on Violence Against Women Solicitation Template, 11468–11469 Proposed Consent Decrees under the Clean Air Act, 11469 nvestigations, Orders, or Reviews: Hand Trucks and Certain Parts Thereof from the People's Republic of China, 11396–11398 Justice Department NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Office on Violence Against Women Solicitation Template, 11468–11469 Proposed Consent Decrees under the Clean Air Act, 11469 Labor Department See Veterans Employment and Training Service PROPOSED RULES Retrospective Review and Regulatory Flexibility, 11334 NOTICES Meetings: Advisory Committee on Veterans' Employment, Training and Employer Outreach, 11469–11470 [[Page v]] Land Management Bureau NOTICES Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.: South Coast Resource Management Plan Amendment; Upper Santa Ana River Habitat Conservation Plan and Land Exchange, 11463–11466 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration NOTICES Inconsequential Noncompliance; Approvals: AGC Flat Glass North America, Inc., 11521–11522 National Indian Gaming Commission NOTICES Preliminary Fee Rate and Fingerprint Fees; 2015, 11467–11468 National Institutes of Health NOTICES Meetings: Center for Scientific Review, 11456–11458 Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 11459 National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, 11456–11457 National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, 11458–11459 erprint Fees; 2015, 11467–11468 National Institutes of Health NOTICES Meetings: Center for Scientific Review, 11456–11458 Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 11459 National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, 11456–11457 National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, 11458–11459 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration RULES Fisheries of the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and South Atlantic: Coastal Migratory Pelagic Resources of the Gulf of Mexico and South Atlantic; Trip Limit Increase, 11330–11331 Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska: Pacific Cod in the Aleutian Islands Subarea of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area, 11332–11333 Fisheries of the Northeastern United States: Northeast Groundfish Fishery; Fishing Year 2014; Interim Gulf of Maine Cod Management Measures; Correction, 11331–11332 PROPOSED RULES Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants: Listing the Tanzanian DPS of African Coelacanth as Threatened under the Endangered Species Act, 11363–11379 Endangered and Threatened Wildlife: Petition to List Common Thresher Shark as Threatened or Endangered, 11379–11386 NOTICES Exempted Fishing Permit Applications: Fisheries Off West Coast States and in the Western Pacific; Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery, 11398 Takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to Specified Activities: Shell Ice Overflight Surveys in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas, Alaska, 11398–11413 Navy Department NOTICES Exclusive Licenses: Survival Innovations, LLC, 11426 ES Exempted Fishing Permit Applications: Fisheries Off West Coast States and in the Western Pacific; Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery, 11398 Takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to Specified Activities: Shell Ice Overflight Surveys in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas, Alaska, 11398–11413 Navy Department NOTICES Exclusive Licenses: Survival Innovations, LLC, 11426 Nuclear Regulatory Commission NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: NRC Request for Information Concerning Patient Release Practices, 11471–11472 Facility Operating and Combined Licenses: Applications and Amendments Involving Proposed No Significant Hazards Considerations, 11472–11492 Applications and Amendments Involving Proposed No Significant Hazards Considerations, etc., 11492–11498 Meetings: Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards Subcommittee on Metallurgy and Reactor Fuels, 11499 Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards Subcommittee on Planning and Procedures, 11499–11500 Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards Subcommittee on Regulatory Policies And Practices, 11499 Meetings; Sunshine Act, 11500–11501 Ocean Energy Management Bureau NOTICES Oil and Gas Lease Sales: Western Gulf of Mexico Planning Area, Outer Continental Shelf, Sale 246, 11468 Overseas Private Investment Corporation NOTICES Meetings; Sunshine Act, 11501 Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Annual Reporting, 11501–11502 Presidential Documents ADMINISTRATIVE ORDERS Defense and National Security: Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center; Establishment (Memorandum of February 25, 2015), 11317–11318 ings; Sunshine Act, 11501 Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Annual Reporting, 11501–11502 Presidential Documents ADMINISTRATIVE ORDERS Defense and National Security: Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center; Establishment (Memorandum of February 25, 2015), 11317–11318 Securities and Exchange Commission NOTICES Meetings; Sunshine Act, 11502 Self-Regulatory Organizations; Proposed Rule Changes: NASDAQ Stock Market LLC, 11502–11517 Trading Suspension Orders: Agent155 Media Corp., et al., 11517 China Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al., 11517–11518 Small Business Administration NOTICES Disaster Declarations: California, 11518 Transportation Department See Federal Aviation Administration See Federal Railroad Administration See National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Treasury Department See Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau [[Page vi]] See Foreign Assets Control Office Veterans Affairs Department NOTICES Privacy Act; Systems of Records, 11524–11533 Veterans Employment and Training Service NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment Tracking Report, 11470–11471 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Reader Aids Consult the Reader Aids section at the end of this page for phone numbers, online resources, finding aids, reminders, and notice of recently enacted public laws. 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