How automated records management can reduce agency burdens

Federal Times: When it comes to records management, automation is not a mandate. However, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) requires that by 2019 agencies manage all permanent electronic records in native electronic format, and by 2022 they submit all records, paper or electronic, in digital format.

The good news is agencies are not on their own. As the primary authority on federal records management, NARA has been providing agencies with guidance on how to achieve records management mandates, and, the benefits of automation have been a consistently recurring theme in NARA guidance documents.

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