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Approver

Date Approved

Description/Comments

10

Office of the Executive Secretariat

03/03/2023

Administrative updates were made to clarify requirements in section 5.2 for requesting extensions on expiration and suspense dates as follows:

- To ensure that the Director for the Office of the Executive Secretariat (OES) is notified when the monthly list of expiring directives is distributed; to establish the Director as the signature authority on memos notifying Officials-in-Charge when their respective directives approach expiration two months prior to; and that the Director be notified when directives approach expiration one month prior to.

- To eliminate memos requesting 30-day extensions on suspense dates, thereby allowing these requests to be e-mailed to OES DMT.

- To implement 3-tiered approval authorities for consideration on e-mails requesting 30-day extensions and waivers requesting extensions on suspense dates that have already been extended.

9

Office of the Executive Secretariat

02/13/2023

Administrative updates were made to align the directives function with the Office of the Executive Secretariat; clarify responsibilities for officials within the A Suite; and update office and position titles.

8

Directives Management Team

10/20/2022

Administrative edits made to following:

- Section 3.5 to respond to the Office of the Executive Secretariat's findings of inconsistencies with bolded text, punctuation placed behind chapter numbers, appendix letters, and figure and table letters and numbers, and font themes and sizes in Agency-level directives.

- Appendix C, Tables C-2 and C-3 to make compliance checklists consistent with recent administrative changes made to requirements.

7

Directives Management Team

03/02/2022

Administrative edits made to the following:

- Section 4.1.3 in Chapter 4 to clarify requirements for expedited reviews to emphasize that an expedited is successful when a prereview of a directive is coordinated first, and to provide responsible offices with a timeline template by which they can provide the number days at each step in the expedited timeline to DMT so that these days can be accurately calculated and reflected in NODIS.

- Appendix C, Tables C-1 and C-3 to make compliance checklists consistent with recent administrative changes made to requirements.

6

Directives Management Team

02/22/2022

Administrative edit made to paragraph 3.5.1a(4) in Chapter 3 to clarify requirements for lettering and numbering figures and tables in chapters and in appendices; a practice already used in complex Agency-level directives.

5

Directives Management Team

02/16/2022

Administrative edit made to paragraph 5.2.3a in Chapter 5 to allow designees to sign memos requesting 30-day extensions.

4

Directives Management Team

01/25/2022

Administrative edits made to clarify requirements for using an applicability statement for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Chapter 3, paragraph 3.6.2c(2)(b).

3

Directives Management Team

10/19/2021

Administrative edits made to change the responsible official's title from "Deputy Associate Administrator (DAA) for Mission Support" to "Director for Mission Support Operations" in paragraph 2.6 and subsequent paragraphs throughout. Updates were also made to the following paragraphs:
- 5.2.2a to provide a link to e-mail requests for extensions on expiration dates.
- 5.2.3a to provide a link to download the memo template to request 30-day extensions on suspense dates.
- 5.4.1 to provide a link to download the memo template to request transfer of a directive.

2

Directives Management Team

09/22/2021

Updated paragraphs 3.3.2c and 3.3.2d(1)-(2) to clarify format requirements for citing documents.

1

Directives Management Team

03/11/2021

Updated paragraph 4.4.2 to clarify the requirement that final drafts of NASA Interim Directives are coordinated with OGC for the legal review and the Human Capital Labor Relations Officer for the union review.