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The office of secretary of defense is likely not undertaking proper records disposition of emails and shared files, says a National Archives and Records Administration inspection report (.pdf) obtained by FierceGovernmentIT. The report, dated December 2010, is not classified nor otherwise restricted from public distribution.
The report examines, in particular, record keeping by the office of the undersecretary of defense for intelligence, but also other wider OSD records management efforts. Because OUSD(I) staff do not consistently properly manage old emails and shared drive files, “NARA therefore considers it likely that proper disposition is not being carried out for emails and shared drives files throughout OSD,” the report states. Read more…