National Security Planning Guidance (NSPG)
National Security Planning Guidance (NSPG) : The 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) recommended the creation of a National Security Planning Guidance (NSPG), aimed at directing the development of both military and nonmilitary plans and institutional capabilities. The QDR advocates an NSPG that would set priorities and clarify national security roles and responsibilities to reduce capability gaps and eliminate redundancies. (DoD, Building Partnership Capacity: Quadrennial Defense Review Execution Roadmap, May 22, 2006, p. 7).