The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) will allow agencies to continue transferring official personnel folders (OPFs) until June 2025 – giving agencies a limited exception to the electronic-files-only policy fully implemented earlier this summer. […]
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After successfully meeting key deadlines in its transition to accepting only digital records from Federal agencies, a National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) official said this week that NARA will continue to provide guidance and support for electronic records management including through the use of artificial intelligence tech. […]
Laurence Brewer is stepping down as the chief records officer at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), with his last day on the job set for July 13. […]
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is giving Federal agencies instructions on how to review, identify, and organize records in their custody relating to unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) – or UFOs as they are more commonly known. […]
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has announced the opening of its new mass digitalization center in College Park, Md., which it said will help speed up the digitalization of important government documents like never before. […]
The search for the straight dope on UFOs – and where to host all of that information – has stretched beyond the walls of the Pentagon and become a whole-of-government affair. […]
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) will be rolling out a zero trust network access (ZTNA) solution as part of the next step of the agency’s zero trust implementation journey, an agency official said on Feb. 6. […]
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) – the Federal agency charged with preserving all government records – has officially eliminated its 600,000-plus backlog of veteran records requests at the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) in Saint Louis, Mo. […]
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is scheduled to completely eliminate its veterans records backlog by January 2024, the agency said in its Fiscal Year 2023 Agency Financial Report. […]
Debra Steidel Wall has announced her retirement – effective Nov. 30 – as deputy archivist at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) where all public records of the Federal government are stored and maintained. […]
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is calling on Federal agencies to consider dedicating more resources to IT solutions that can automate the records retention of their social media records. […]
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) said this week that its Electronic Records Archives (ERA 2.0) system will become available for records scheduling on Sept. 18. […]
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is instructing agencies to incorporate records management practices when it comes to their use of collaboration platforms such as Zoom, Slack, Discord, Google Workspace, and Microsoft 365, among others. […]
Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, who chairs the House Oversight and Accountability Committee’s Government Operations and Federal Workforce Subcommittee, took to task Federal agencies with notable service backlogs – and the pandemic-era workplace norms that he says contributed to them – during a subcommittee hearing on June 21. […]
The Senate voted on Wednesday to confirm Colleen Shogan to serve as the head of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). […]
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee today voted 8-4 to favorably report Colleen Shogan’s nomination to the full Senate to be the eleventh archivist for the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). […]
Colleen Shogan once again testified before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on Feb. 28 after her nomination to be the first female archivist for the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) was blocked last congress. […]
Additional forms of electronic messages – including text messages – will now be included in the National Archives and Records Administration’s (NARA) digital records retention guidance for Federal organizations, according to a recent bulletin posted by the agency. […]
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) today published an update to the government’s records retention rules, which provides Federal agencies with new instructions on how long to hang on to cybersecurity logs. […]
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) have issued a joint memo reiterating that Federal agencies have until June 2024 to manage and store all records digitally. […]
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has awarded Fearless a five-year contract worth up to $65.7 million for work on NARA’s Electronic Records Archives (ERA) 2.0 program. […]
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has announced that they have digitized over 200 million documents to the National Archives Catalog on Oct. 26. […]
Federal agencies that were fretting over the Dec. 31 deadline to fully transition to electronic recordkeeping can breathe a sigh of relief. […]
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has released a draft Customer Research Agenda that seeks feedback from customers on the agency’s services, and will help inform a five-year plan by the agency improve customer experience. […]
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on September 28 tossed a wrench – although likely only a temporary one – into the nomination process of Colleen Shogan to become the new National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Archivist. […]
The nomination hearing for the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Archivist took place amidst pressure from government officials to modernize the agency’s record-keeping capabilities. […]
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is in talks with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) about an extension of the December 2022 deadline for government agencies to transition fully to electronic records as directed by the M-19-21 directive issued by NARA in 2019. […]
Sheena Burrell has been appointed the new Chief Information Officer (CIO) at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), she announced on her Linked In page. […]
The Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) today announced $13.5 million of new project funding to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to improve citizen service through better records delivery, and to the Agriculture Department (USDA) to speed cybersecurity improvement efforts. […]
Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., today introduced legislation that would allocate $60 million to addressing the backlog of requests for records at the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC). […]