NASA Procedural Requirements

NPR 1400.1I Effective Date: November 01, 2024 Expiration Date: November 01, 2029

Subject: NASA Directives Procedural Requirements

Responsible Office: Chief of Staff

Table of Contents

Preface

P.1 Purpose
P.2 Applicability
P.3 Authority
P.4 Applicable Documents and Forms
P.5 Measurement/Verification P.6 Cancellation

Chapter 1. NASA Directives

1.1 Overview
1.2 General Provisions Governing NASA Directives
1.3 Description and Hierarchy of NASA Directives

Chapter 2. Responsibilities

2.1 Administrator
2.2 Deputy Administrator
2.3 Associate Administrator
2.4 Chief of Staff
2.5 Director, Office of the Executive Secretariat (OES)
2.6 Officials-in-Charge of Headquarters Offices
2.7 Center Directors
2.8 General Counsel
2.9 Inspector General
2.10 Chief Financial Officer
2.11 Chief Human Capital Officer
2.12 Assistant Administrator for Procurement
2.13 Chief Information Officer
2.14 Director for NASA Office of JPL Management Operations
2.15 OES Directives Management Team (DMT)
2.16 OES Executive Operations Team (EOT)
2.17 OES Agency Governance Team (AGT)
2.18 OES Audit Liaison Team (ALT)
2.19 Directives Managers (DM)
2.20 Audit Liaison Representatives (ALR)

Chapter 3. Requirements for the Content and Structure of NASA Directives

3.1 Requirement Statements in NASA Directives
3.2 Responsibility Statements in Agency-level Directives
3.3 Document Citations in NASA Directives
3.4 Administrative Elements of NASA Directives
3.5 Format and Writing Styles
3.6 Content and Structure of Elements in NASA Policy Directives (NPD) and Center Policy Directives (CPD)
3.7 Content and Structure of Elements in NASA Procedural Requirements (NPR) and Center Procedural Requirements (CPR)
3.8 Content and Structure of Elements in NASA Interim Directives (NID) and Center Interim Directives (CID)
3.9 Content and Structure of Elements in NASA Policy Statements (NPS) and NASA Policy Instructions (NPI)

Chapter 4. Process Requirements for Establishing, Revising, Revalidating, Making Administrative Corrections, and Hyperlinking NASA Directives

4.1 Introduction
4.2 Establishing and Revising Directives
4.3 Revalidating and Making Administrative Corrections or Minor Changes to Existing Directives
4.4 Issuing NIDs and CIDs
4.5 Issuing NPSs and NPIs
4.6 Hyperlinking Other Documentation to the NASA Online Directives Information System (NODIS) Library or the Center-level Directive's Library Systems

Chapter 5. Process Requirements for Requesting Directives Cancellations, Extensions, Resolutions, Transfers, and Waivers

5.1 Requesting Cancellation of NASA Directives
5.2 Requesting Extensions on Expiration or Suspension Dates
5.3 Requesting Resolution of Impasses
5.4 Requesting Transfers of Directives
5.5 Requesting Relief from Requirements in NASA Directives

Appendix A. Definitions
Appendix B. Abbreviations and Acronyms
Appendix C. Verification Matrices
Appendix D. References

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