scope:

Purpose

a. This directive establishes responsibilities and requirements for all NASA employees, including managers, supervisors, and job applicants for employment with NASA, who request, receive, coordinate, review, process, or decide requests for reasonable accommodations at NASA Headquarters (HQ) and the NASA Centers, including Component Facilities.

b. This NPR is intended to assist NASA in fulfilling its obligation to ensure that individuals with disabilities who are qualified, that is, able to perform the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation, and who request reasonable accommodation, receive a timely and proper response. ¹

c. Further, this NPR establishes criteria for collecting and annually reporting data on the numbers and types of reasonable accommodation requests received and processed at NASA Headquarters and the NASA Centers, including Component Facilities.

Applicability

a. This NPR is applicable to NASA HQ and NASA Centers, including Component Facilities and Technical and Service Support Centers.

b. In this directive, 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 is not required, "will" denotes expected outcome, and "are/is" denotes descriptive material.

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

¹ See Appendix A for definitions of key terminology, such as reasonable accommodation, essential functions, qualified, and individual with a disability.