scope:

APPLICABILITY

a. This NPD is applicable to NASA Headquarters and NASA Centers, including Component Facilities and Technical and Service Support Centers. This language applies to the JPL, a Federally Funded Research and Development Center, other contractors, recipients of grants, cooperative agreements, or other agreements only to the extent specified or referenced in the applicable contracts, grants, or agreements.

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 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.