Digital Government
National Archives tees up new rules for UFO records
New legislation mandates a governmentwide repository of records dealing with "unidentified anomalous phenomena."
Policy
Maloney introduces presidential records reform bill
Outgoing House Oversight and Reform Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) has a new bill meant to beef up compliance with White House records requirements.
People
Archivist confirmation hearing turns to politics behind Mar-a-Lago search
Republicans seized on a traditionally "sleepy" confirmation process to draw attention to the National Archives and Records Administration's involvement in the FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.
Modernization
$13.5M in new TMF awards to NARA, USDA
An award to the National Archives appears designed to reduce a pandemic-era backlog in veterans records processing.
People
Ferriero to retire from National Archives
Archivist of the United States David Ferriero is retiring from his post in April after 12 years in the position.
Modernization
Lawmakers seek probe of veterans' records requests backlog
The National Personnel Records Center is facing a backlog of 550,000 requests that built up over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Modernization
Hurricane Ida knocked out key NARA system
The system is back up and running, but the sustained outage could lead to delays in the approval of annual records transfer requests.
Modernization
TMF could help solve records request backlog for veterans, lawmakers say
A bipartisan group of lawmakers from the House Oversight and Reform Committee wants the National Archives and Records Administration to apply for funding from the Technology Modernization Fund to modernize its IT systems and clear its backlog of 500,000 records requests from veterans.
Digital Government
NARA seeks DOD's help in addressing records request backlog
Many records housed in a St. Louis facility are critical to veterans' benefits applications but can't be accessed remotely.
People
Few agencies sought Schedule F conversions
In the waning days of the Trump administration, only a relative handful out of hundreds of eligible agencies and department responded to an executive order that looked to reclassify vast swathes of the federal civil service as at-will employees.
Digital Government
They took all the tweets and put 'em in a tweet museum
Twitter cancelled @realdonaldtrump, but the National Archives will bring presidential tweets back via the Trump library website.
Modernization
NARA looks to multi-cloud
The federal government's archive drafting a multi-cloud storage acquisition strategy to accommodate other agencies' digital data.
People
NARA sharpens digital preservation plans
The National Archives released a framework for preserving government information that takes into account the proliferating variety of electronic formats – some now defunct – so that records can be saved in their original form.
Digital Government
Growing pains, successes in remote work during COVID-19
Despite plans to incrementally push workers to return to the office, federal agencies still plan on allowing some employees to continue to work remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Cybersecurity
How petabytes are crushing the security classification system
The official in charge of overseeing the federal government's information classification policy is warning that the current system is beginning to break – and he wants help and money to fix it.
Modernization
Tick tock: NARA's electronic records management deadline is approaching
While agencies have largely passed previous deadlines, this could be the most difficult mandate to date.
People
Public interest in records schedules booms
The National Archives and Records Administration is seeing a spike in comments on routine records dispensation notices.
Digital Government
NARA, GSA team up to promote electronic records management
A new one-stop shop for electronic records management tools is designed to help agencies keep up with the looming governmentwide goal of going paperless.
Digital Government
Taking point on FOIA
Requesters tasked the U.S. with a record 1 million FOIA requests for fiscal year 2018, but while getting in the front door is easier than ever, getting responses is still a grind.
Cybersecurity
NARA is doing great at email, website security. Maybe
An audit finds the National Archives and Records Administration is well on its way to complying with a DHS directive to boost email and website security, but the agency's measurements need improvement.
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