Purpose

a. TEST This NASA Procedural Requirements (NPR) is to provide NASA Management, Center Directors, Chief Information Officers (CIO), Program Managers, and network administrators, with a step-by-step approach to preparing a Continuity of Operations Plan, which addresses long-term losses or disruptions of primary mission-essential operations, supporting facilities, Information Technology (IT) systems, and other essential interdependencies.

b. Required under Executive Order 12656 and Presidential Decision Directives (PDD) 63 and 67, continuity of operations plans provide for a planning and implementation framework that is designed to integrate and expand upon existing emergency preparedness processes established under NPD 8710.1A, Emergency Preparedness Program, NPR 8715.2, NASA Emergency Preparedness Plan Procedural Requirements, and the requirements of the Computer Security Act of 1987 and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-130, which will allow the Agency to properly and efficiently address the steps to be taken to maintain its mission-essential operations, or implement transfer of these mission essential operations to alternate location(s), in the event of an emergency event causing long-term contingencies, losses, or disruptions to normal operations.

Applicability

The provisions of this NPR apply to NASA Headquarters and NASA Centers, including Component Facilities, and to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to the extent specified in its contract.