National Security Memorandum 22 (NSM-22)
White House memorandum defining the 16 sectors of U.S. critical infrastructure that the federal government treats as protection priorities (energy, water, transportation, communications, financial services, healthcare, food and agriculture, etc.).
Relevance to UAP / counter-UAS vault
- Provides the eligibility scaffold for the FAA’s proposed UAFR rule (May 2026, src-faa-drone-rule-critical-infrastructure-2026-05): only facilities within an NSM-22 sector qualify for a Standard UAFR.
- Ties FAA airspace policy directly to broader homeland critical-infrastructure protection — meaning the same memo that frames cyber, physical security, and supply-chain protection now anchors a slice of national-airspace regulation.