Federal Leadership After a more than two-and-a-half-year run as the National Archives and Records Administration’s deputy CIO, Burrell in August 2022 was elevated to the agency’s top IT role, where she’s charged with overseeing the safeguarding of information and digital and natural digital records for the federal government. A former IT official at NASA and […]
Agencies must treat records in collaboration platforms like all other federal records, in compliance with the administration’s approved records schedules, NARA announced in a bulletin.
“We’re seeing more creative ways in terms of repayment, not necessarily just saying I have investment A and I need to take the cost savings from investment A to be able to repay the TMF,” NARA CIO Sheena Burrell said.
Agencies must update their public records systems in order to ensure their systems work with FOIA.gov, a requirement established in a 2019 White House memo.
Agencies have had limited access to the new system since June to submit transfer requests for electronic files.
The records agency wants to use AI systems for auto filling metadata and responding to FOIAs, according to an inventory of the technology.
CIO Council guidance for 2023 requires use cases to be published both to the MAX.gov federal community, and publicly on each agency’s website.
In a memo Thursday, Kiran Ahuja said U.S. government departments should use flexible working practices to protect the health of their employees.
The DOD is working with civilian agencies on a new FAR rule that would apply new requirements for vendors that handle controlled unclassified information.
According to a strategic plan unveiled via a FOIA request, the backlog of unanswered requests stood at 404,000 as of Feb. 13.
