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A longtime goal to transition to a paperless government is once again a moving target.
Congress is planning to give the National Archives and Records Administration significant funding to dig out from a pandemic-era backlog that's kept veterans from applying for federal benefits.
A near decade-long project to upgrade the IT systems agencies use to schedule and transfer records to the National Archives is close to coming to fruition.
In today's Federal Newscast: The National Archives continues its effort digitizing hundreds of millions of pages for the public. The VA improves its information on job vacancies. And the AbilityOne program scores a cool $2 million from the Technology Modernization Fund.
Agencies will likely have until June 2024 digitize their paper records after the pandemic and other challenges slowed the transition to e-records.
The Access for Veterans to Records Act is on the move in the Senate, but Colleen Shogan's nomination to be national archivist hits a roadblock.
If the Senate confirms her, the White House's nominee for national archivist said the veterans' record request backlog would be the “most important discrete problem” facing her.
The House Oversight and Reform Committee said it’s “extremely concerned” about growing threats against federal employees and visitors to federal facilities.
NARA is looking at expanding the "Capstone" email retention approach to text messages, chat and other digital forms of communications.
Many agencies are unlikely to hit an end-of-year deadline for transitioning away from paper records.
The House Committee on Oversight and Reform sent letters to veteran records retrieval companies including DD214 Direct, Aardvark Research Group and Angels Research.
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Committee Chairwoman Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) said the IRS budget outlined in the draft bill would help the agency "provide better customer service and crack down on big corporations and the wealthy who are not paying their fair share in taxes."
The Technology Modernization Fund is backing IT modernization projects at the National Archives and Records Administration and the Agriculture Department.