ROCKVILLE, Md., July 2 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Archives and
Records Administration (NARA) recently announced Initial Operational
Capability (IOC) of the Electronic Records Archives (ERA) system, built for
the agency by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT). This milestone sets the
foundation for a permanent archival system to take in, preserve, manage,
and provide access to electronic records created by the federal government.
"With this milestone, the National Archives and Records Administration
now has an operational system with electronic archiving functionality that
is truly unique, literally not available or in use anywhere else in the
world," said Sean Murphy, Lockheed Martin's ERA program director.
A major initiative to enable the successful move to government-wide
electronic records preservation, the ERA system will capture electronic
information -- regardless of format -- save it permanently, and make it
accessible on future generations of hardware and software.
"Our customer is taking a true leadership position in meeting the
digital preservation challenge, setting the standard for authenticity,
persistence and service," said Andy Patrichuk, Lockheed Martin's vice
president of Civil Mission Solutions.
This first increment of the new system will help archivists manage the
process of determining how long federal records -- whether they are in
paper, film, electronic, or other media formats -- should be kept by
agencies and if those records should then be preserved in the National
Archives.
In July, the National Archives will start moving approximately three
and a half million historically valuable computer files into ERA system,
ranging from databases about World War II soldiers to the State
Department's central files on foreign affairs.
The Lockheed Martin team delivered the initial operating capability
through three pilot phases, which gave the NARA technical and user
communities the opportunity to try out the system and provide feedback. The
team has already developed and demonstrated a large portion of the system's
capabilities for the next phase of the program which will provide the
National Archives with the capability to accept the massive quantities of
Presidential electronic files from the Bush Administration in January 2009.
As the prime contractor for the ERA project, Lockheed Martin is leading
a team of companies with archiving and data management expertise. The team
includes BearingPoint Inc., McLean VA; Fenestra Technologies Corp.,
Germantown, MD; History Associates Inc., Rockville, MD; EDS Corp., Plano,
TX; Metier Ltd., Washington, DC; and Tessella Inc., Newton, MA.
Headquartered in Bethesda, MD, Lockheed Martin employs about 140,000
people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design,
development, manufacture and integration of advanced technology systems,
products and services.
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http://www.lockheedmartin.com
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