---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 1203.201"
title: "14"
number: "1203.201"
heading: "Information security objectives."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/1203.201"
---

# §1203.201. Information security objectives.


The objectives of the NASA Information Security Program are to:

- (a) Ensure that information is classified only when a sound basis exists for such classification and only for such period as is necessary.
- (b) **Prevent both the unwarranted classification and the overclassification of NASA information.**
- (c) **Ensure the greatest practicable uniformity within NASA in the classification of information.**
- (d) Ensure effective coordination and reasonable uniformity with other Government departments and agencies, particularly in areas where there is an exchange or sharing of information, techniques, hardware, software, or other technologies.
- (e) Provide a timely and effective means for downgrading or declassifying information when the circumstances necessitating the original classification change or no longer exist.

## Notes

### Amendments

[44 FR 34913, June 18, 1979, as amended at 78 FR 5117, Jan. 24, 2013]

### Authority

Authority: E.O. 13526, E.O. 12968, E.O. 13549, E.O. 12829, 32 CFR part 2001, and 51 U.S.C., 20132, 20133.

### Source

Source: 44 FR 34913, June 18, 1979, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[44 FR 34913, June 18, 1979, as amended at 78 FR 5117, Jan. 24, 2013]