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In the 2 years since the National Archives and Records Administration created the National Declassification Center, 70 percent of its document backlog was assessed, but review efforts could slow or Read more...

The increasing pervasiveness of information filtering via social networks has implications for American democracy, said David Weinberger, a senior researcher with the Harvard Berkman Center for Read more...

The federal government has 85 different authorized ways to mark data that require some protection but falls below the level of classified, says the National Archives and Records Administration. They Read more...

Federal records placed into the National Archives and Records Administration's Electronic Records Archive typically won't be content searchable, the agency's inspector general warns. In two Read more...

Simply capturing an image of social media content hosted by third parties isn't a sufficient archiving strategy, says Charley Barth, director of records at the Department of the Navy. Since October Read more...

A National Archive and Records Administration official says hardware is procured and development is near completion for a classified electronic records archive that will function as a completely Read more...

A Senate Appropriations Committee markup of the annual federal financial services and general government funding bill would give approximately 5 percent less than the president's request but Read more...

The federal government is contemplating whether to institute additional regulation to prevent counterfeit goods from entering its supply chain. The specter of counterfeit goods being inadvertently Read more...

Legislation approved June 16 by a House Appropriations subcommittee would restore, in part, fiscal 2012 funding for the General Services Administration's e-Government Fund. According to a fiscal 2012 Read more...

The National Archives and Records Administration released a digital version of the Pentagon Papers June 13. The collection "will present the American public with the first definitive look at this Read more...