Operational Security Act of 2025

The Operational Security Act of 2025 would create a new Office of Security Training and Counterintelligence inside the Executive Office of the President (EOP). The Office would be led by a Director appointed by the President with Senate confirmation and would staff its activities with career security professionals detailed from federal agencies (including potential detailees from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence). The Director must be a recognized security expert and eligible for access to Top Secret and sensitive compartmented information. The Office’s core mission is to provide security training, counterintelligence and insider-threat mitigation, and protection of classified and other sensitive information for EOP personnel, including guidance on the use of unclassified commercially available messaging apps and coordination with the National Archives and Records Administration to preserve records. The bill also creates a Security Training and Counterintelligence Advisory Board, a bipartisan body of four security-expert members (appointed by party leaders in both the Senate and the House). The Board would advise on best practices, issue an annual report to congressional intelligence committees, and elect a Chairperson who cannot be an EOP employee. These provisions aim to standardize and strengthen security practices across the EOP and provide ongoing external guidance and oversight.