The video from the August 29, 2012 NDC Open Forum is now available and may be viewed here.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNnxN3M9TUc

The National Archives recently developed a new web portal for declassification information.  As a result some of the links in older blog posts to released entries and bi-annual reports are not working correctly.  The new portal provides centralized pages for all new releases and reports.  You may access these by clicking  the links below. New [...]

The Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP) provides the public and users of the classification system with a forum for further review of classification decisions.   For the first time, documents declassified by the ISCAP are available for public access on a new site accessible from the declassification portal:  http://www.archives.gov/declassification/iscap/decision-table.html The Executive Order 13526, “Classified National Security [...]

The National Archives has launched a new declassification portal that provides a single point of access for declassification actions happening at NARA: http://www.archives.gov/declassification/ From this portal, users can get information about recent records releases at the National Archives.  Users can find information about the National Declassification Center, the Public Interest Declassification Board, the Presidential Libraries, and the Interagency [...]

The NDC will be hosting its third annual open forum on Wednesday, August 29, from 10 a.m. to 12 noon in the McGowan Theater at the National Archives Building.  The theme for this year’s forum will be “NDC Challenges at Two Years: What did we learn, and how are we moving forward?”  You may contact [...]

The National Archives invites you to participate in the Open Government Idea Forum at http://naraopengov.ideascale.com/. This important dialogue will help provide new ideas and direction to the revision of the National Archives’ Open Government Plan. Whether you’re an archivist, historian, genealogist, National Archives researcher, citizen concerned with records management, policy expert in declassification, or advocate [...]

On February 1, 2012, the National Declassification Center (NDC) began a new tradition by awarding the first Jeanne Schauble Memorial award to Mr. Ed Cachine for outstanding contributions to the NDC and declassification community.  The award was created to honor the memory of Jeanne Schauble, long-time Director of the Initial Processing and Declassification Division and [...]

On October 27, 2011, the National Declassification Center held a one-day conference on the Berlin Crisis of 1961.  The conference focused on events leading up to and following the Vienna summit between Khrushchev and Kennedy, the height of tension during August with the construction of the wall and the eventual standoff between the U.S. Army’s Berlin Brigade [...]

Here is a good article from Sunday’s Washington Post that discusses the challenges faced by the NDC and its achievements to date. http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/national-security/national-archives-needs-to-declassify-a-backlog-of-nearly-400-million-pages/2011/11/29/gIQAMAYmPO_story.html?tid=pm_national_pop

The National Declassification Center (NDC) will be hosting its second Open Public Forum on Tuesday August 23 at 10:00 in the McGowan Theater at Archives I in Washington DC.  Please enter via the special events entrance on Constitution Avenue.  NDC Director Sheryl Shenberger and Presidential Materials Staff Director Nancy Smith will provide an update on [...]