The mission of this division is to provide policy and practice direction for the Agency's engineering community, including software and system engineering. The Technical Standards Program, the NASA Engineering Network (NEN), and the Space Asset Protection Program are also in this division. The Technical Standards Program provides ready access to current Voluntary Consensus Standards as well as NASA prepared standards that have been developed specifically for Agency use. Technical Standards reference any lessons learned and vice versa. NEN provides a single point as well as timely search access to over 3 million documents within the Agency and other technology related databases. NEN also hosts Communities of Practice for the Agency's Tech Fellows and Technical Discipline Teams providing timely access to discipline-specific material from across the centers. Space Asset Protection is a collaborative effort with several other government agencies with interests in space.
Documents managed by this office include:
- NPR 7123.1, NASA Systems Engineering Processes and Requirements
- NPR 7150.2, NASA Software Engineering Requirements
- NPR 7120.10, Technical Standards for NASA Programs and Projects