scope:

APPLICABILITY

a. This NPD applies to NASA Headquarters, NASA Centers, including Component Facilities, and Technical and Service Support Centers.

b. This NPD applies to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), (a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC)), other contractors, grant recipients, or parties to agreements only to the extent specified or referenced in the appropriate contracts, grants, or agreements.

c. This NPD is applicable to Government Furnished Equipment, Government- developed systems and hardware, and programmatic/mission-specific facilities.

d. Hardware leased by NASA or loaned to NASA by other Federal agencies and technology development or demonstration programs that does not provide mission, flight, or systems hardware is exempt.

e. In this NPD, all mandatory actions (i.e., requirements) are denoted by statements containing the term "shall." The terms "may" or "can" denote discretionary privilege or permission, "should" denotes a good practice and is recommended but not required, "will" denotes expected outcome, and "are" or "is" denotes descriptive material.

f. In this directive, all document citations are assumed to be the latest version unless otherwise noted.