On September 18, 2018, a new Defense One Breakfast Series opened with a high-level panel discussion on “the critical mission imperative of artificial intelligence.” In a lively exchange, IARPA Director Stacey Dixon, former IBM Watson Director Rob High, ODNI Senior Scientist David Honey, and Senior Scientist Michael Wolmetz of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics … Continue reading IARPA Director, Leading Program Scientists Tout “Human Machine Team”
Category: Declassification
The National Archives Hosts Industry Day Focused on Electronic Messages: The Next Phase of the Federal Electronic Records Modernization Initiative (FERMI)
ABOUT: FERMI is the National Archives and Records Administration’s (NARA) effort to provide a government-wide, modern, cost-effective, standardized, and interoperable set of records management solutions and services to Federal agencies. NARA has identified the common, core requirements all agencies need to support their records management programs. VANTAGE: Federal agencies have different missions, structures, and resources, … Continue reading The National Archives Hosts Industry Day Focused on Electronic Messages: The Next Phase of the Federal Electronic Records Modernization Initiative (FERMI)
White House Reform Plan Incorporates NARA Recommendations
On June 21, the White House published “Delivering Government Solutions in the 21st Century,” endorsing goals in the 2018-2022 Strategic Plan of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to stop accepting paper records by the end of 2022, and to achieve fully electronic records management and public access across the federal government. David Ferriero, Archivist … Continue reading White House Reform Plan Incorporates NARA Recommendations
ISOO Report Recommends Government-wide Technology Strategy to Address Inefficiencies in Information Security
Today, the Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO) released its 2017 Annual Report to the President on security classification and implementation of the Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) program. ISOO’s report highlights the high cost and inefficiency of using outmoded systems to protect America’s classified information, and recommends that the President implement a Government-wide technology strategy for … Continue reading ISOO Report Recommends Government-wide Technology Strategy to Address Inefficiencies in Information Security
Completion of the JFK Records Rolling Release
Last Friday marked the completion of the rolling review and release of the final records still publicly withheld from the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection. The Public Interest Declassification Board (PIDB) acknowledges the importance of the completion of the rolling release of these records, but we must note with disappointment failure of the responsible … Continue reading Completion of the JFK Records Rolling Release
State Department Releases Historically Significant Records on Human Rights Abuses in Argentina
Yesterday, President Trump presented Argentine President Mauricio Macri with a CD containing approximately 3,300 pages of records relating to human rights abuses committed in Argentina between 1975 and 1984. The documents are part of a comprehensive interagency project by 14 Government departments and agencies to search their archives and identify and review for public access … Continue reading State Department Releases Historically Significant Records on Human Rights Abuses in Argentina
The Importance of Sunshine Week
This week is Sunshine Week, an annual initiative that seeks to educate the public about the importance of openness in government. Each year during mid-March, organizations dedicated to advocating for a more open government hold events around the nation to discuss the various ways we can hold our government accountable to the people by limiting … Continue reading The Importance of Sunshine Week
Prioritization of Presidential Library Records: The Argentina Declassification Project Releases Records Online
Yesterday, the White House announced the declassification and release of records related to human rights abuses committed under Argentina’s 1976-1983 dictatorship. The President committed to prioritizing the declassification of these records in March 2016, including the release for the first time of records from U.S. intelligence, law enforcement, and defense agencies. You can view the … Continue reading Prioritization of Presidential Library Records: The Argentina Declassification Project Releases Records Online
“There’s classified, and then there’s classified:” Tangible Steps to Fix the Classification and Declassification System by Nate Jones, National Security Archive
For the Public Interest Declassification Board: The former head of the Information Security Oversight Office, responsible for oversight of the US classification system, has acknowledged that classification officials joke that “you could easily classify the ham sandwich.”[1] Barack Obama has summarized the tension between the public’s right to know and the necessity for the government … Continue reading “There’s classified, and then there’s classified:” Tangible Steps to Fix the Classification and Declassification System by Nate Jones, National Security Archive
Clarify and Delimit Scope of Classified “Methods,” by Patrice McDermott, OpentheGovernment.org
A White Paper Submission to the PIDB: Section 102(d)(3) of the National Security Act of 1947 (1) makes the Director of National Intelligence responsible for protecting intelligence sources and methods from unauthorized disclosure. The director has "very broad authority to protect all sources of intelligence information from disclosure."(2) As has been regularly noted, though, almost … Continue reading Clarify and Delimit Scope of Classified “Methods,” by Patrice McDermott, OpentheGovernment.org