NASA Procedural Requirements

NPR 3100.1C Effective Date: December 21, 2020 Expiration Date: December 21, 2025

Subject: Management of the Senior Executive Service (SES)

Responsible Office: Office of the Chief Human Capital Officer

Chapter 8. Other Provisions

8.1 Mobility

8.1.1 The SES is considered a national asset. Mobility involves using a full range of assignment authorities to leverage the skills of executives for greater mission accomplishment and to prepare them for higher levels of service.

8.1.2 Mobility encompasses both temporary and permanent job assignments involving change from previous assignment patterns. This can include details, short-or long-term reassignments and transfers, use of IPA authority, sabbaticals, formal training, and other ways to expose executives to challenges or otherwise expand their capacity to serve.

8.1.3 SES rules require an executive to move when the Agency's need requires it. An executive who declines a management-directed reassignment may be removed through adverse action procedures.

8.2 SES Ethical Standards

8.2.1 SES members are held to the absolute highest level of ethics. Every member of the SES is entrusted with the senior management and execution of programs established by our national leadership.

8.2.2 Initial appointees to the SES from outside the Federal Government shall receive an ethics briefing within thirty days of appointment.

8.2.3 SES members shall complete annual ethics briefings, supplemented with additional training as required, and complete a public financial disclosure report annually, as well as when entering and leaving the SES.

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