scope:

APPLICABILITY

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

b. This NPD applies to all NASA employees and contractors to the extent provided in their contracts, including part-time and full-time employees.

c. This NPD also applies to NASA grantees conducting scientific research.

d. This language applies to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a Federally Funded Research and Development Center.

e. This NPD applies to awardees from non-NASA organizations and their subcontractors that publish scientific research or compile unclassified digital data sets (excluding excepted data) resulting from RD&T programs funded through a NASA grant, cooperative agreement, contract, or other agreement.

f. This NPD applies to basic and applied scientific research projects across all NASA organizations implemented after the issuance of this NPD, and to both intramural and extramural research projects regardless of funding mechanism (grants, cooperative agreements, contracts, space act agreements, or internal Agency funding processes).

g. This NPD does not apply to excepted data, which are data that will not be made public by definition in Attachment A.

h. In this directive, all mandatory actions (i.e., requirements) are denoted by statements containing the term "shall." The terms: "should" denotes a good practice and is recommended, but not required; "will" denotes expected outcome; and, "are/is" denotes descriptive material.

i. Nothing in this NPD is intended to replace or supplant the existing NASA Scientific and Technical Information process, including submission of NASA form 1676.

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