Records management

John Cofrancesco, vice president, Business Development at Active Navigation, joins host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to discuss records management and how his company can help federal agencies eliminate redundant, obsolete or trivial data.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has had the notion to go digital for many years, but at a certain point the agency moved away from building one giant system first and opted to integrate its existing systems in smaller pieces.

Tyler Morris, the director of product management for Iron Mountain Government Solutions, explains how agencies improve records management and office space management at the same time.

Agencies receive more Freedom of Information Act requests now than ever before. But their workforces haven’t kept up with the growing demand.

Renee Wynn, the NASA CIO, said during the upcoming ACT-IAC ELC ImaginationNation conference she’s interested in learning about SDN and zero trust networks.

As part of a broader customer service transformation under the President’s Mangement Agenda, the Defense Imagery Managment Operations Center (DIMOC) aims to “connect the dots” between its stovepiped program offices.

While the Trump administration expects agencies will spend less on records management in the long-term, NARA says agencies might save on time, but probably not money when transitioning to digital records.

The vast majority of agencies claim they’re on track to meet a key deadline in the path towards making the government less dependent on paper records, according to a new report from the National Archives and Records Administration.

April Chen, a senior product manager for Iron Mountain, provides three recommendations for agencies on how to meet the 2019 deadline for managing electronic records.

April Chen, a senior product manager for Iron Mountain, said agencies should start by assessing their current classification schemes and taxonomies to understand if they need to be updated or even rebuilt entirely.