[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 14, Volume 5]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 14CFR1203.202]



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                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE

 

                          SPACE ADMINISTRATION

 

PART 1203_INFORMATION SECURITY PROGRAM--Table of Contents

 

               Subpart B_NASA Information Security Program

 

Sec. 1203.202  Responsibilities.



    (a) The Chairperson, NASA Information Security Program Committee 

(Subpart I of this part), is responsible for:

    (1) Directing the NASA Information Security Program in accordance 

with NASA policies and objectives and applicable laws and regulations.

    (2) Ensuring effective compliance with and implementation of ``the 

Order'' and the Information Security Oversight Office Directive No. 1 

relating to security classification matters.



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    (3) Reviewing, in consultation with the NASA Information Security 

Program Committee, questions, suggestions, appeals and compliance 

concerning the NASA Information Security Program and making 

determinations concerning them.

    (4) Coordinating NASA security classification matters with NASA 

installations, the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy and 

other Government agencies.

    (5) Issuing Security Classification Guides for NASA programs and 

projects.

    (6) Developing, maintaining and recommending to the Administrator 

guidelines for the systematic review covering 30-year-old classified 

information under NASA's jurisdiction.

    (7) Reviewing and coordinating with appropriate offices all appeals 

of denials of requests for records under sections 552 and 552a of Title 

5, United States Code (Freedom of Information and Privacy Acts) when the 

denials are based on the records continued classification.

    (8) Recommending to the Administrator appropriate administrative 

action to correct abuse or violations of any provision of the NASA 

Information Security Program, including notifications by warning letter, 

formal reprimand and to the extent permitted by law, suspension without 

pay and removal.

    (b) All NASA employees are responsible for bringing to the attention 

of the Chairperson of the NASA Information Security Program Committee 

any information security problems in need of resolution, any areas of 

interest wherein information security guidance is lacking, and any other 

matters likely to impede achievement of the objectives prescribed 

herein.

    (c) Each NASA official to whom the authority for original 

classification is delegated shall be accountable for the propriety of 

each classification (see subpart H) and is responsible for:

    (1) Ensuring that classification determinations are consistent with 

the policy and objectives prescribed above, and other applicable 

guidelines.

    (2) Bringing to the attention of the Chairperson, NASA Information 

Security Program Committee, for resolution, any disagreement with 

classification determinations made by other NASA officials.

    (3) Ensuring that information and material which no longer requires 

its present level of protection is promptly downgraded or declassified 

in accordance with applicable guidelines.

    (d) Other Officials-in-Charge of Headquarters Offices are 

responsible for:

    (1) Ensuring that classified information or material prepared within 

their respective offices is appropriately marked.

    (2) Ensuring that material proposed for public release is reviewed 

to eliminate classified information.

    (e) Directors of Field Installations are responsible for:

    (1) Developing proposed Security Classification Guides.

    (2) Ensuring that classified information or material prepared in 

their respective installations is appropriately marked.

    (3) Ensuring that material proposed for public release is reviewed 

to eliminate classified information.

    (4) Designating Security Classification Officers at their respective 

installations, to whom responsibilities listed in paragraphs (e)(1), 

(2), and (3) of this section may be reassigned.

    (f) The Senior Security Specialist, NASA Security Office, NASA 

Headquarters, who serves as a member and Executive Secretary of the NASA 

Information Security Program Committee, is responsible for the NASA-wide 

coordination of security classification matters.

    (g) The Director, NASA Security Management Office, is responsible 

for establishing procedures for the safeguarding of classified 

information or material (e.g., accountability, control, access, storage, 

transmission, and marking) and for ensuring that such procedures are 

systematically reviewed; and those which are duplicative or unnecessary 

are eliminated.



[44 FR 34913, June 18, 1979, as amended at 45 FR 3888, Jan. 21, 1980; 48 

FR 5890, Feb. 9, 1983; 53 FR 41318, Oct. 21, 1988; 64 FR 72535, Dec. 28, 

1999]



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