scope:

Purpose

a. This directive describes the responsibilities and requirements for creating, revising, reviewing, approving, publishing, and cancelling NASA directives and Agency-level charters.

b. This directive provides specific instructions pertaining to development, content, and processing of NASA directives and Agency-level charters.

Applicability

a. This directive is applicable to NASA Headquarters and NASA Centers, including Component Facilities and Technical and Service Support Centers (Agency-wide).

b. In this directive, all mandatory actions (i.e., requirements) are denoted by statements containing the term "shall." The terms "may" denotes a discretionary privilege or permission, "can" denotes statements of possibility or capability, "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, "Agency-level directives" (e.g., NPDs, NPRs, and NIDs) refers to directives with Agency-wide applicability.

d. In this directive, "Center-level directives" (e.g., CPDs, CPRs, and CIDs) refers to directives with Center-specific applicability.

e. In this directive, "NASA directives" refers to both Agency-level and Center-level directives.

f. In this directive, "NASA Charters" (e.g., NCs) refers to those charters that govern Agency-level councils, boards, committees, panels, and working groups.

g. In this directive, "Center charters" refers to those charters that govern specific Center councils, boards, committees, panels, and working groups.

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

i. This directive is applicable to NASA directives developed or revised after the effective date of this NPR.