Rewrite of the NASA FAR Supplement (NFS)

Parts 1801 through 1806, and clauses affected by these parts, are revised in their entirety. The numbering of NFS sections has been changed to indicate the exact section of the FAR being implemented or supplemented. The FAR numbering system is by part, subpart, section, and subsection, for example 1.105-2. Subdivisions below these numbers are designated by parenthetical alpha numerics in the following sequence: (a)(1)(i)(A). The NFS ``implements'' and ``supplements'' the FAR. Implementing coverage is that which directly carries out the FAR policies and procedures. Supplementing coverage is that additional information not required by the FAR but necessary to satisfy the specific needs of NASA. Numbering of NFS text implementing the FAR will be the same as that of the related FAR text when the NFS coverage is one paragraph. Implementing NFS coverage exceeding one paragraph is numbered by first identifying the corresponding FAR test to the lowest appropriate FAR number and then adding the NFS coverage. To indicate where the FAR subdivision ends and the NFS begins, the NFS coverage is identified by skipping a sequence in the (a)(1)(i)(A) alpha numeric subdivision scheme. For example, four paragraphs implementing FAR 1.602-3(c)(7) are numbered 1801.602-3(c)(7)(A), (B), (C), and (D) (instead of the 1801.602-3(b)(1) through (4) in the current NFS). In this case, the next available alpha numeric subdivision identifier (i) is skipped and the NFS coverage starts with the subsequent identifier (A). NFS text that supplements the FAR will be numbered the same as its FAR counterpart with the addition of a number 70 and up. For example, NFS supplement of FAR subsection 1.105-3 is numbered 1801.105-370. Supplemental text exceeding one paragraph is numbered using the prescribed alpha numeric sequence without skipping a unit. Parts 1801 through 1806 use the new numbering system. Other NFS parts will be transitioned as the NFS rewrite progresses. The new numbering system will require a short orientation period. However, it will prove to be a significant value to the user of the NFS in that it will clearly and precisely identify the associated FAR coverage, as well as clearly distinguish implementing from supplementing coverage.