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NASA Ball NASA
Procedural
Requirements
NPR 2200.2E
Effective Date: December 17, 2021
Expiration Date: December 17, 2026
COMPLIANCE IS MANDATORY FOR NASA EMPLOYEES
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Subject: Requirements for Documentation, Approval and Dissemination of Scientific and Technical Information

Responsible Office: Office of the Chief Information Officer


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Chapter 2. Dissemination of NASA Scientific and Technical Information

2.1 Scientific and Technical Information

2.1.1 STI is the analyses of data and facts and resulting conclusions of basic and applied scientific, technical, and related engineering research and development.

2.1.2 NASA STI is derived from NASA activities.

a. NASA STI includes information authored by a NASA employee as part of the employee’s official duties, or STI coauthored by a NASA employee and a non-NASA employee.

b. Contractors, grantees or cooperative agreement holders shall adhere to data and publishing rights requirements specified in their respective agreements.

c. Contracting and grant officers preparing agreements shall ensure any restrictions or limitations placed on NASA contractors and grantees regarding the publication, dissemination, or presentation of STI produced under a contract, grant or any other agreement are consistent with NASA Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement, 48 CFR pt. 18; 2 CFR 200, Uniform Adminstrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards; and Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards, 2 CFR 1800.

d. Types of NASA STI may include technical publications and reports; abstracts; journal articles, including preprints and accepted manuscripts; meeting, workshop, and conference publications and presentations; conference proceedings; and preliminary STI, including any of these examples that will be uploaded to a public website or that exist in visual documentation formats.

2.1.3 NASA disseminates STI pursuant to public access policies consistent with NPD 2230.1, Research Data and Publication Access, and in keeping with Federal laws, regulations, and Agency policy that require safeguarding restricted or sensitive information.

2.2 Obtaining STI Release Authorization

2.2.1 Authors, meaning NASA employee authors or any NASA employee seeking to disseminate NASA STI as defined herein, shall not release NASA STI through any public channel or media without submitting and obtaining an approved NF-1676.

a. Authors shall complete the NF-1676 review process prior to internal or external release of STI where foreign persons may be present.

b. Authors who complete the NF-1676 review process shall ensure that information is properly reviewed, marked, disseminated, and archived by NASA.

2.2.2 Completion of the NF-1676 review process ensures NASA does not release information to which public access may be prohibited, restricted, or limited in accordance with Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), 32 CFR pt. 2002. Refer to NID 2810.135, Controlled Unclassifed Information, for more information on CUI.

2.2.3 All authors who intend to publish and disseminate NASA STI under the direction of NASA, meaning deliverable obligations required under the terms of a contract, grant, or other cooperative agreement requirements, shall do so via the NF-1676.

a. All contractor, grantee and cooperative agreement recipients shall coordinate with technical management or the CO/COR/GO/GTO and Center STI personnel to select a suitable publishing channel for releasing the STI.

2.2.4 All NASA employees producing or authoring STI shall uphold the responsibility to review data for compliance with the laws and regulations governing STI distribution restrictions. See NID 2810.135 and NPR 2190.1, NASA Export Control Program.

2.3 Exclusions from NPR 2200.2

Not all information released by NASA falls under the purview of STI. Exclusions to NPR 2200.2 requirements are:

a. Software releases, see NPR 2210.1, Release of NASA Software. Go to https://software.nasa.gov for more information and to access a list of center software points of contact.

b. Freedom of Information Act requests, see Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552.

c. Data sets independent of published/publishing NASA STI, see NPR 2190.1, as these data do require an export control review.

d. Mishap investigations, see NPR 8621.1, NASA Procedural Requirements for Mishap and Close Call Reporting, Investigating, and Recordkeeping.

e. Policy/procedural or operational documentation, see NPR 1400.1, NASA Directives and Charters Procedural Requirements.

f. Safety standards, reference Agency-level safety and mission assurance standards.

g. Education and public outreach, see NPD 2521.1, Communications and Material Review.

h. New technology/invention disclosure, see NPR 2091.1, Inventions Made by Government Employees.

i. Technology transfer, see NPR 7500.2, NASA Technology Transfer Requirements.

j. STI specifically covered under a Space Act Agreement (SAA), see NPD 1050.7, Authority to Enter into Partnership Agreements.

k. STI released or published by NASA civil servants when the STI is produced on their own behalf, using information (NASA or otherwise) already available to the public, and not part of their official Government duties (such as in the case of graduate coursework, theses, or dissertations). To confirm this status, consult with Center STI personnel.

2.4 Declassified STI

2.4.1 Center personnel responsible for declassified STI shall send those publications to the NASA STI Program with a properly completed and signed NF-1676.

2.4.2 Center personnel responsible for declassified STI shall properly mark those publications as unclassified (revised cover, title page, and page markings) and include documentation authorizing the declassification as outlined in NPR 1600.2, NASA Classified National Security Information.

2.4.3 Center personnel responsible for declassified STI shall ensure compliance with NID 2810.135 should CUI requirements apply to the unclassified document.



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