Streamline compliance with Executive order 13526
The program automates and expedites the entire declassification procedure while ensuring that all records are adequately reviewed, thus saving time and money.
FDM ensures your agency’s compliance with declassification rules and presidential orders. The system provides a comprehensive end-to-end structure for your declassification procedure, complete with quality control measures to guarantee accuracy and completeness. FDM lets you meet automatic declassification deadlines by tasking records declassification at 25, 50, and 75 years in accordance with your declassification guidebook, as well as allowing you to redact or downgrade records on an ad hoc basis.
Automate Tasks
Automatically designate declassification tasks based on the statutory timeline
Track Milestones
Track progress per record or collection through each stage of the process
Monitor & Report
Generate reports to show status/progress of current open cases
Collaborate
Refer decision making to partner agencies
Support Automatic & Manual Declassification
The FDM modernizes and digitalizes the declassification workflow. The DoD 5015.02 Certified for Classified system includes support for electronic records, such as emails, chats, and documents from file shares or SharePoint, as well as legacy systems. The FDM speeds up your declassification procedure by integrating with existing software and databases. The system can connect to your email server to automatically ingest emails for declassification and review. The FDM can also interface with your SharePoint environment to identify documents that need to be declassified.
Automatic
The Executive Order 13526, “Classified National Security Information,” specifies that an automatic declassification review is necessary 25 years after classification, and 75 years if previously exempted. According to the security classification procedures, anything with a classification date prior to 25 years enters into the declassification queue.
Manual
For one-time declassification projects, action officers create a case where stakeholders can collaborate and assign tasks to specific individuals. These workers then redact information, make notes, and exemptions in the same way as they would for an automatic declassification task.
How Declassification Manager Works
The Management Dashboard provides an overview of the status of projects, including any conflicts between L1 and L2 reviewers, QC approval, completion rate, and who is working on what accession package.
Key Benefits
Automatically adding records to the declassification queue and assigning them to the Declassification Review Manager makes it simpler to keep track of what needs to be declassified and when.
All system activities, including changes and updates in a document’s status or modify notifications, create audit table entries. Ensure your declassification process is defensible and accountable
Provides a timeline of each record’s status through the declassification process, as well as reports on the progress of the declassification program
Reason codes are used to identify exempt information and construct an exemption index. The exemption index is built automatically by consulting reason codes for each exemption.
Ensure the safety of your material by implementing quality control measures throughout the declassification process.
Automatically show terms that would exempt a record from Automatic Declassification based on declassification guide.
Referrals and Consultations – in the case of external agency equities during the declassification review process, Feith offers the ability to refer portions of a classified document to outside entities for their concurrence prior to certifying the declassification review.
In the browser, redact pictures and text digitally, with a variety of functions for detecting and eradicating words or phrases automatically. Remove banner markings from declassified papers.
NARA Accession
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is responsible for the preservation and dissemination of Federal records. NARA accepts Presidential, Legislative, and Judicial records that have permanent legal or historical value.
To ensure the integrity of the classification system, NARA requires a transfer package for all accessioned or declassified records. The package must include a certification that the records have been reviewed and declassified in accordance with current executive order and procedures.
The classification system will generate a PDF or TIFF of the declassified document, with an XML metadata file, which can be exported and transferred to NARA.
The system will generate a package including the certification letter, XML metadata file, PDFa or TIFF of the declassified document, and any associated exemption information. This package is now available for release by the Records Manager.
The classification system is a complex and ever-evolving process, but it is an essential part of our national security. Feith Declass Manager makes the declassification process more efficient and less error-prone, while providing an auditable trail of every decision made.
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