We are pleased to announce the release of a report on open source tools for records management. This report was produced in response to item A3.2 in the Managing Government Records Directive (M-12-18) and is available here. This item actively encourages NARA to work with agencies to review and identify open source tools for records … Continue reading Open Source Tools for Records Management Report Released
Automated Electronic Records Management Plan Portal
We have launched a new portal to share information about our ongoing work on the Automated Electronic Records Management Plan. The portal displays a table corresponding to the three parts of the framework in the plan: governance, procurement, and technology. We will post on our ongoing projects to the portal. All of these projects demonstrate … Continue reading Automated Electronic Records Management Plan Portal
GRS Update: Bucketing Items
This update is from our General Records Schedule (GRS) Team The GRS Team has recently been reviewing a number of schedules from agencies that bucket GRS items. (This review is part of the normal internal stakeholder review process that all schedules go through and any schedules superseding GRS items are reviewed by the GRS Team.) … Continue reading GRS Update: Bucketing Items
BRIDG Meeting Cancelled
The February BRIDG Meeting has been cancelled for today. The Office of Personnel Management has announced the following operating status: ALERT Federal agencies in the Washington, DC area are OPEN and employees have the OPTION for UNSCHEDULED LEAVE OR UNSCHEDULED TELEWORK. As a reminder, our BRIDG meeting cancellation policy is the following: NARA reserves the right to postpone or cancel a meeting … Continue reading BRIDG Meeting Cancelled
Review and Comment on Draft Report on Open Source Tools for Records Management
We are requesting comments on a draft of an upcoming report on open source tools for records management. This report was produced in response to item A3.2 in the Managing Government Records Directive (M-12-18). This item actively encourages us to work with agencies to review and identify open source tools for records management tasks. To … Continue reading Review and Comment on Draft Report on Open Source Tools for Records Management
Upcoming Course Offering
Managing the Lifecycle of National Security Information is a one day class designed to improve the management of classified records in the intelligence, law enforcement and defense communities by integrating records management, information security and declassification concepts. The intended audience is anyone who handles classified records in agencies within the civilian Executive Branch, the Intelligence … Continue reading Upcoming Course Offering
GRS Notifications
This week we issued AC Memo 9.2015 reminding agencies about the need to notify NARA if they are going to be using their own authorities instead of the General Records Schedule (GRS). The communication extended the January 16, 2015, deadline in AC Memo 03.2015 to submit notifications to March 1, 2015. There are consequences to … Continue reading GRS Notifications
Release of 2013 SAO Annual Report
We are pleased to announce we have completed a review of the 2013 SAO (Senior Agency Official for Records Management) Annual Reports. The results have been issued in an Executive Report available here (.pdf). The Managing Government Records Directive issued in August 2012, requires all agencies to submit to NARA an annual report outlining their progress toward implementing … Continue reading Release of 2013 SAO Annual Report
Tobacco Litigation Freeze Lifted
Earlier today, the Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a memorandum to general counsels at all federal agencies. This memorandum lifts the litigation hold imposed in United States v. Philip Morris USA Inc., et al., Civil No. 99-CV-02496 (GK) (D.D.C.). Because of this issue’s significance to the federal records management community, we are revising the agenda for … Continue reading Tobacco Litigation Freeze Lifted
H.R. 1233 Signed by President Obama
On November 26, 2014, President Barack Obama signed into law H.R. 1233, The Presidential and Federal Records Act Amendments of 2014. This law modernizes records management by focusing more directly on electronic records and complements our efforts to implement the President’s 2011 Memorandum on Managing Government Records. The law also represents the first significant changes … Continue reading H.R. 1233 Signed by President Obama