[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 149 (Friday, August 6, 2021)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-16850]


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NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION

[NARA-2021-040]


Draft FY 2022-2026 Strategic Plan

AGENCY: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

ACTION: Invitation to comment.

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SUMMARY: We have posted our new draft Strategic Plan and are inviting 
feedback from staff, public and Government customers, stakeholders, and 
colleagues in the archival, historical, and records management 
communities.

DATES: Please provide your feedback by August 20, 2021.
    Location: You can view the draft Strategic Plan in two places: On 
our website at http://archives.gov/about/plans-reports/strategic-plan/draft-strategic-plan and on GitHub at https://usnationalarchives.github.io/strategic-plan. You can submit feedback on 
GitHub or by email to [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Carla Patterson, Director, Strategy 
and Performance Division, National Archives and Records Administration; 
8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, Maryland 20740, by email at 
[email protected], or by telephone at 301 837-0993.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The draft plan reaffirms our current 
Mission, Vision, Values, Transformational Outcomes, and Strategic Goals 
(see Strategic Plan (FY 2018-FY 2022) at https://www.archives.gov/about/plans-reports/strategic-plan). The draft plan updates the 
agency's strategic objectives to focus agency resources on improving 
equity, providing a world-class customer experience for all customers, 
and using our experiences during the pandemic to accelerate agency 
modernization.
    Our draft Strategic Plan commits to new outreach to traditionally 
underserved communities and to work with these communities to identify 
the records in our holdings that are most important to them. Once 
identified, we'll prioritize those records for archival processing and 
describing, digitizing, and accessing online. We're at the beginning of 
a process to build new relationships with underserved communities, and 
this draft plan reflects our intent to maintain and foster those 
relationships over time.
    The draft Strategic Plan also revitalizes our customer service 
activities by addressing the entire customer experience. We've proposed 
agency-wide objectives to better understand customer needs and 
expectations and modernize services and communications channels. These 
objectives will drive cross-agency activities to provide a unified, 
responsive experience for customers across all of our services lines.
    And finally, the draft Strategic Plan challenges our programs and 
agency records management functions to continue modernizing activities 
that we started during the COVID-19 pandemic. We recognize that making 
more of our work processes electronic and online will allow us to 
fulfill more of our mission remotely, making the agency more resilient 
over time. We also commit to modernizing our records management 
policies to keep pace with changes in how Federal agencies create and 
manage a new generation of electronic records.
    All Federal agencies must issue a new Strategic Plan every four 
years. We shared this draft plan with National Archives employees on 
July 28 and are now sharing the plan with stakeholders and the public 
for comment.
    We'll collect and consider feedback, and then revise and share the 
draft plan with the Office of Management and Budget by September 13. 
We'll publish the final Strategic Plan in February 2022 and it will 
become the agency's official plan for fiscal years 2022 through 2026.

David S. Ferriero,
Archivist of the United States.
[FR Doc. 2021-16850 Filed 8-5-21; 8:45 am]
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