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Purpose

a. This NASA Procedural Requirement (NPR) establishes Agency-wide requirements for the protection of Classified National Security Information (CNSI).

b. This NPR prescribes personnel responsibilities and procedural requirements for the management of CNSI to assist NASA Centers and Component Facilities in executing the NASA security program designed to protect people, property, and information.

c. In accordance with, Classified National Security Information, Executive Order (E.O.) 13526, and 32 CFR pt. 2001, this NPR establishes Agency procedures for the proper implementation and management of a uniform system for classifying, safeguarding, and declassifying national security information generated by, for, or in the possession of NASA.

Applicability

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

b. This NPR is applicable to all NASA civil service employees, NASA contractor employees, personnel completing work through Space Act Agreements or Memorandums of Agreement (MOA) or Memorandums of Understanding (MOU), those assigned or detailed under the partners, recipients of grants and cooperative agreements, visitors, and other binding transactions in which access to Classified National Security Information is required for performance of the work.

c. Chapter 5 is applicable to contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, and other binding transactions in which performance requires access to CNSI by the contractor, supplier, grantee, or its employees. It does not apply to agreements with other Federal agencies.

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

e. In this NPR, 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 materials.