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NASA's scientific and technical information (STI) is an essential product of research, facilitates technology transfer, and enhances the competitive edge of U.S. companies and educational institutions. NASA's STI is an integral part of NASA's information transfer and is critical to NASA's mission and vital to the Nation. Designed to ensure fast, two-way information interchange, the STI Program helps NASA to avoid duplication of research, time, and cost and to make its wealth of information available to benefit its customers. NASA's Program Plan is an excellent reference point, particularly in terms of developing plans to meet ORD's scientific information management requirements and integrating those with other ORD processes. The NASA STI Program has strong ties to the information technology trends within and outside of NASA and is based on customer needs and partnership arrangements with both internal and external stakeholders. NASA's approach was to design and implement the STI Program based on customer and stakeholder needs; to stress partnerships among NASA Headquarters, the Principal Center at Langley, the Centers (both Center STI programs and Center organizations that produce STI), and external government and industry STI organizations; and to use evaluation and metrics to improve program performance. The Headquarters program is responsible for approving STI policy, advocating budgets, and external cooperative agreements. Identifying, tracking, and acquiring NASA's STI for the STI database are not solely the responsibilities of the STI Program. Other NASA organizations are responsible for contacting the STI Program at their Centers to determine how to get their project, mission, and organizational STI into the NASA STI database. It is the responsibility of every NASA employee and contractor to ensure that NASA's STI is preserved for the Nation and its citizens.

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