National Archives and Records Administration
<FONT SIZE=2>Reynolds Cahoon</FONT>
Reynolds Cahoon
Address
National Archives and Records Administration
700 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20408
(866) 272-6272
www.archives.gov
Founded
June 19, 1934
Archivist
John Carlin
What it does
The Archives is an independent federal agency that manages the preservation of federal records and historic documents and ensures access to them. It runs the National Archives at College Park, Md., 10 presidential libraries and two presidential materials projects, 19 regional records facilities around the country, the Office of the Federal Register and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
The budget
2002 budget: $290 million
2003 budget: $272 million
In the 2003 budget, $2.3 million is earmarked for the Electronic Records Management project.
The Web site
It appears to me that the main business opportunities right now with NARA involve its
e-government initiatives. I didn't find one specific Web page for doing business with the agency. Instead, most of what I found was under the main page for the Electronic Records Archives (http://www.archives. gov/electronic_records_archives
/index.html). A list of contractors that responded to the second request for information can be found at http://www. archives.gov/electronic_records
_archives/acquisition/vendor_
list.html. For other possible business opportunities with NARA, FedBizOpps.gov is a good place to check.
Electronic Records Archives
Value: Not available
RFP: July
Purpose: Introduce technology into the NARA infrastructure to achieve an electronic records archives capability. This is one of NARA's initiatives to preserve electronic records generated by agencies. The contract will likely be for six and one-half years.
Order Fulfillment and Accounting System Application Support
Value: Not available
RFP: July
Purpose: Provide seven-day-a-week, 12-hour-a-day application and help-desk support, documentation support and maintenance for its order fulfillment and accounting system.
Of President Bush's 25 electronic government initiatives, NARA leads the Electronic Records Management Initiative to establish uniform procedures, requirements and standards for electronic record keeping by agencies in converting paper-based records to electronic files.
NARA also is involved with the Records Management Initiative and the Electronic Records Archives, the latter focusing on the information technology needed to make electronic records management work.
The agency's Strategic Plan seeks to improve records management in the federal government to ensure that essential evidence is created, identified, scheduled and managed for as long as needed.
Currently, 24 percent of these services are online; the goal is for 70 percent of services to be online by 2007.
Title
Chief information officer
Took the job
February 1996
Family
Married to Susan Schroeder;
seven daughters and one son
live in Germantown, Md.
Hobbies
Blues piano, working with the
young men of my church.
Currently reading
"A New Kind of Science" by
Stephen Wolfram
Alma mater
Bachelor of arts degree in management from Governors State
University
WT: What are the IT challenges the agency faces, as you see them?
Cahoon: Continuing to mature our IT management infrastructure and capability to acquire and operate the Electronic Records Archive, which will preserve and provide access to any type of electronic record for as long as needed, free from dependency on the hardware and software that created it.
Also, fully integrating cybersecurity throughout NARA's enterprise architecture and developing electronic records management services and integrating them into our component architecture and into our applications.
WT: What do you look for in companies with which you are thinking of doing business?
Cahoon: Integrity, a willingness to listen and learn, the right mix of competent, innovative people, a proven development, and management processes and appropriate technology.
CHANGES OF LATE
NARA's "Proposal for a Redesign of Federal Records Management," lays out the agency's plan to deal with a growing backlog of electronic and paper records.
NARA and federal agencies have already taken the plan's first step of outlining strategies for better records management. Some of these strategies are now being tested to see how they work.
Address
National Archives and Records Administration
700 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20408
(866) 272-6272
www.archives.gov
Founded
June 19, 1934
Archivist
John Carlin
What it does
The Archives is an independent federal agency that manages the preservation of federal records and historic documents and ensures access to them. It runs the National Archives at College Park, Md., 10 presidential libraries and two presidential materials projects, 19 regional records facilities around the country, the Office of the Federal Register and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
The budget
2002 budget: $290 million
2003 budget: $272 million
In the 2003 budget, $2.3 million is earmarked for the Electronic Records Management project.
The Web site
It appears to me that the main business opportunities right now with NARA involve its
e-government initiatives. I didn't find one specific Web page for doing business with the agency. Instead, most of what I found was under the main page for the Electronic Records Archives (http://www.archives. gov/electronic_records_archives
/index.html). A list of contractors that responded to the second request for information can be found at http://www. archives.gov/electronic_records
_archives/acquisition/vendor_
list.html. For other possible business opportunities with NARA, FedBizOpps.gov is a good place to check.
Electronic Records Archives
Value: Not available
RFP: July
Purpose: Introduce technology into the NARA infrastructure to achieve an electronic records archives capability. This is one of NARA's initiatives to preserve electronic records generated by agencies. The contract will likely be for six and one-half years.
Order Fulfillment and Accounting System Application Support
Value: Not available
RFP: July
Purpose: Provide seven-day-a-week, 12-hour-a-day application and help-desk support, documentation support and maintenance for its order fulfillment and accounting system.
Of President Bush's 25 electronic government initiatives, NARA leads the Electronic Records Management Initiative to establish uniform procedures, requirements and standards for electronic record keeping by agencies in converting paper-based records to electronic files.
NARA also is involved with the Records Management Initiative and the Electronic Records Archives, the latter focusing on the information technology needed to make electronic records management work.
The agency's Strategic Plan seeks to improve records management in the federal government to ensure that essential evidence is created, identified, scheduled and managed for as long as needed.
Currently, 24 percent of these services are online; the goal is for 70 percent of services to be online by 2007.
Title
Chief information officer
Took the job
February 1996
Family
Married to Susan Schroeder;
seven daughters and one son
live in Germantown, Md.
Hobbies
Blues piano, working with the
young men of my church.
Currently reading
"A New Kind of Science" by
Stephen Wolfram
Alma mater
Bachelor of arts degree in management from Governors State
University
WT: What are the IT challenges the agency faces, as you see them?
Cahoon: Continuing to mature our IT management infrastructure and capability to acquire and operate the Electronic Records Archive, which will preserve and provide access to any type of electronic record for as long as needed, free from dependency on the hardware and software that created it.
Also, fully integrating cybersecurity throughout NARA's enterprise architecture and developing electronic records management services and integrating them into our component architecture and into our applications.
WT: What do you look for in companies with which you are thinking of doing business?
Cahoon: Integrity, a willingness to listen and learn, the right mix of competent, innovative people, a proven development, and management processes and appropriate technology.
CHANGES OF LATE
NARA's "Proposal for a Redesign of Federal Records Management," lays out the agency's plan to deal with a growing backlog of electronic and paper records.
NARA and federal agencies have already taken the plan's first step of outlining strategies for better records management. Some of these strategies are now being tested to see how they work.