scope:

This instruction provides the organizational construct to facilitate the sharing of information among NCPC members who have identified threats through traditional analyses and to address modern challenges falling outside the scope of a traditional OPNAV code for action. The intent is to identify any strategies used by countries of concern to exploit vulnerabilities in existing foreign investment vetting processes and regulations. Examples of non-traditional emerging challenges include: foreign investment transactions involving sophisticated peer and near-peer state competitors; malign non-state actors; countries of concern access to advanced or disruptive technologies; and proximity to Navy training, testing, and operating areas within the United States and overseas.

This instruction facilitates the development of actions required to protect critical technology and infrastructure, to include task critical assets (TCA) and critical suppliers both within and outside of the traditional defense industrial base. These actions will align with the Office of the Secretary of Defense and Joint Staff efforts to pursue any strategy that prevents the degradation of the Navy's warfighting and technological advantage to near-peer competitors. Leveraging existing Department of Defense (DoD) authorities and capabilities will enable NCPC to identify vulnerabilities in foreign industrial bases that can be exploited, degraded, manipulated, or otherwise negatively impact the Navy.

Purpose. Per references (a) through (d), this instruction establishes policy and issues responsibilities for the Navy Capability Protection Cell (NCPC) to assess those areas where adversaries are most aggressively targeting the Navy's warfighting advantage and to coordinate strategic courses of action (COA) to safeguard Navy equities.