How NARA’s Helping Agencies on the Path to a Fully Electronic Government

NextGov: For National Archives and Records Administration officials, 2019 is “a journey on the revolutionary path towards a fully electronic government.”

And for agency officials, that path is a rocky one.

At the top of the Digital Government Institute’s E-Discovery, Records and Information Management Conference Thursday, NARA’s Chief Records Officer Laurence Brewer asked the conference-goers (largely comprised of federal workers) to raise their hands if they felt their agency is on track to meet NARA’s December 2019 deadline to manage all permanent records electronically with an eventual goal of sending them to NARA in an electronic format.

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