NARA Bulletin (09/10/08) Weinstein, Allen 
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has endorsed version 3 of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Electronic Records Management Software Application (RMA) Design Criteria Standard (DoD 5015.2-STD, April 2007) for use by all Federal agencies. The new records transfer requirements in version 3 comply with NARA's instructions for transferring permanent electronic records to NARA. Previously, NARA has reviewed and endorsed the software certification testing process used by DoD's Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) to certify records management applications (RMAs). Agencies are using RMAs to manage electronic records from desktop applications, to maintain electronic formats for recordkeeping purposes, and to automate business processes to collect, organize, and categorize records to facilitate their retrieval, use, disposition, and preservation, including records generated in egovernment processes.

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