NASA NPD 7500.1 REV C

Abstract

<strong>APPLICABILITY</strong> <br>a. This NPD is applicable to NASA Headquarters, NASA Centers, including Component Facilities, and Technical and Service Support Centers. <br>b. This language applies to JPL, other contractors, grant recipients, or parties to agreements only to the extent specified or referenced in the appropriate contracts, grants, or agreements. <br>c. This policy includes major modifications of systems already in full production or operational as of the effective date of this directive. <br>d. This includes Government Furnished Property, Government-developed systems and hardware, and programmatic/mission-specific facilities. <br>e. Hardware leased by NASA or loaned to NASA by other Federal agencies and technology development or demonstration programs that do not provide mission, flight, or systems hardware are exempt. <br>f. In this directive, all document citations are assumed to be the latest version unless otherwise noted. <br>g. In this directive, all mandatory actions (i.e., requirements) are denoted by statements containing the term "shall." The terms "may" or "can" denote discretionary privilege or permission, "should" denotes a good practice and is recommended but not required, "will" denotes expected outcome, and "are/is" denotes descriptive material.