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Agreements Always Requiring Headquarters Review:
Involve foreign entities either directly as a partner or indirectly (e.g., the activity is, or may appear to be based on the partner’s organizational affiliations, for the benefit of a foreign entity, pursuant to NPD 1370.1).
Involve classified activities with a Federal Government entity directly as a partner or indirectly as a beneficiary, no exceptions. Initiating offices should submit an abstract to Headquarters OIIR for Agency coordination through the appropriate classified system.
Involve Federal Government entities directly as a partner or indirectly as a beneficiary when:
1) the total estimated value is over $1 million; or
2) is an umbrella agreement (as defined in Section 1.9 of NAII 1050.1C); or
3) the NASA signatory is an official-in-charge of a Headquarters office or a Center Director
Involve agreements with current NASA Commercial Crew Program and International Space Station Commercial Cargo partners AND the proposed scope of work is related to those programs.
Involve exclusive or essentially exclusive arrangements as described in subsection II.A.1., Fairness, Transparency, and the Use of Competitive Procedures, of this guide.
Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs)
Reimbursable agreements priced as less than full cost (e.g., involve cost waivers, involve excluded costs under CSLA pricing authority).
Agreements Generally Requiring Headquarters Review:
(Consult with Collin Hieger for additional clarification)
Involve activities that are likely to attract significant external interest.
Impacts a NASA Mission Directorate’s activities, assets, or planning processes.
Require a large commitment of NASA resources or reimbursable funding.
Involve unusual policy waivers.
Involve unorthodox agreement approaches.
Involve potentially controversial activities.
Agreements Generally Not Requiring Headquarters Review:
Agreements with foreign government and foreign noncommercial entities that are initiated by a Headquarters Mission Directorate in coordination with the Headquarters OIIR (abstracts are still required for proposed agreements with foreign commercial entities).
Agreements with domestic partners for routine, long-standing activities that have been previously vetted with the appropriate Headquarters offices and any affected Centers.
Renewals, extensions or minor in-scope amendments of existing agreements that were previously vetted with the appropriate Headquarters offices and any affected Centers (new Annexes not previously vetted under an umbrella agreement do not qualify for this exception).
Routine agreements for astronaut appearances, lunar sample loan agreements, and fully reimbursable wind tunnel test services for domestic industry or other nonFederal governmental entities.
Agreements resulting from competitive processes when those processes provide for representation and awareness among affected NASA organizations.
Nonreimbursable Space Act Agreements with accredited U.S. colleges and universities for short-term research activities in NASA on-site labs or collaboration on student class design projects.
Fully reimbursable or nonreimbursable agreements for NASA to host short-term workshops or conferences.
If a proposed interagency agreement does not meet the criteria for an abstract, the agreement is still required to be reviewed by OIIR, consistent with NPD 1050.1 Authority to Enter Into Space Act Agreements. Accordingly, initiators must include OIIR on the routing for the draft agreement. The official-in-charge list is maintained by the executive secretariat.
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