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NGA Automatic Declassification Program

NGA Automatic Declassification Program. Executive Order 12958, As Amended Presented to the Public Interest Declassification Board. Mr. Alan Florkowski Date: 15 December 2006 Briefer: Deputy Director, Information Management Office, NGA. NGA History. Declassification Program History.

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NGA Automatic Declassification Program

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  1. NGA Automatic Declassification Program Executive Order 12958, As Amended Presented to the Public Interest Declassification Board Mr. Alan Florkowski Date: 15 December 2006 Briefer: Deputy Director, Information Management Office, NGA

  2. NGA History Declassification Program History • National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) established October 1996. • Created under the Department of Defense to provide mapping and charting products/services and imagery intelligence to a wide variety of customers, including the Armed Forces and the government. NIMA integrated a long list of predecessor agencies and departments to form one agency with the goal to provide imagery and geospatial information in a timely fashion. • NIMA’s creation brought together the Defense Mapping Agency (DMA), the Central Imagery Office (CIO), the Defense Dissemination Program Office (DDPO), and CIA's National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC), as well as the imagery elements of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), the Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office (DARO) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). • Moved functional responsibility for Airborne Imagery and Commercial Satellite Imagery Libraries from DIA to NIMA in October 2002. • NIMA became National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) in 2003.

  3. NGA Automatic Declassification Program History • CIA implemented Declass Program in April 1995. • NIMA implemented Geospatial Intelligence Declass Program in February 1998. • Ownership of former National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC/CIA) program resolved March 2000. NIMA became responsible for declass of all permanent records associated with imagery analysis products. • NIMA implemented Imagery Analysis Products Declass Program in November 1998 - -- (Using CIA File Series Exemptions) ---NGA staff employees began working in CIA Declass Center. • NIMA inherited Airborne Imagery Declass Program from DIA and implemented aerial film review program in March 2003. • NGA submitted the Agency’s first NGA Declassification Program Plan to ISOO in January 2004. The plan consolidated review production data from NGA’s three Declass Programs: - GEOSPATIAL INTELLIGENCE - IMAGERY ANALYSIS PRODUCTS - AIRBORNE IMAGERY INTELLIGENCE

  4. NGA Auto Declassification Program Review Sites REVIEW SITES NARA II, College Park, MD Westfield Bethesda National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, St. Louis, MO International Point, Herndon, VA Reston Washington Navy Yard National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Arnold, MO DIAC – Bolling AFB, Washington DC NGA College NGA Sites Auto Declass Program Review Sites NGA and Auto Declass Program Review Sites

  5. NGA Auto Declassification Program: Progress & Plans REVIEW METHODOLOGY • Meet E.O. 12958, as Amended, Requirements: • - All 25-Year-Old and Older Text Records Reviewed • by 12/31/2006 • - Referrals to be Reviewed by 12/31/2009 • All 25-Year-Old and Older Special Media to be • Reviewed by 12/31/2011 • Determine the following for Reviewed Records: • - Declassify • - Exempt • - Declassify As Redacted • - Refer

  6. NGA Records Management Program is an ISO 9000-Certified Process- Geospatial Intelligence Declass Review Program is a Sub-Process of the NGA Records Management Program NGA Auto Declassification Review Process: Geospatial Intelligence Program • Geospatial Intelligence Auto Declass • Program Began Feb 98 • Methodology: Pass/Fail

  7. Pages Declassified Pages Exempt Pages Referred NGA Auto Declassification Progress: Geospatial Intelligence Program REVIEW METHODOLOGY • Requirement for 31 Dec 2006: On Target for 15.5M Pages • Reviews to be Conducted by 31 Dec 06: 247K Pages Total Reviewed (as of 30 Sep 06): 15.2 Million Pages of Textual Records 12.2M Pages Declassified 80.3% 2.7M Pages Exempt 17.8% 280K Pages Referred 1.9% • Other Requirements: Estimated Textual Referrals • Required by 12/31/2009 – 1.2 Million Pages

  8. Yes Convert Imagery Analysis Perform Redaction or Perform a 1 st level Eligible for NGA records into Review Team receives the record electronically Release the document review of the imagery Declass? Electronic form in full No Forward document to Repeat the same Forward imagery to Repeat decision steps Deny in Full quality review Decision steps as 1 certification st from level 1 & 2 2 level review level review level 3 review nd Forward CD to Documents are Document is stamped NARA/ prepared to be placed Final Review on CD certified Done on CD NGA Records Management Program is an ISO 9000-Certified Process - Imagery Analysis Products Declass Review Program is a Sub-Process of the NGA Records Management Program- Imagery Analysis Products Auto Declass Program Began Nov 1998- Methodology: Redact (Electronic Redaction System) & Pass/Fail (Manual Review) NGA Auto Declassification Review Process: Imagery Analysis Products Program

  9. Pages Declassified Pages Exempt Pages Referred NGA Auto Declassification Progress: Imagery Analysis Products Program REVIEW METHODOLOGY • Requirements for 31 Dec 2006: On Target for 3.36M Pages • Reviews to be Conducted by 31 Dec 06: 12.5K Pages Total Reviewed (as of 30 Sep 06): 3.35 Million Pages of Textual Records 2.9 M Pages Exempt 87% 415.5K Declassified 12.4% 15.7K Pages Referred .6% • Other Requirements: Estimated Textual Referrals • Required by 12/31/2009 – 10K Pages

  10. Yes Airborne Declass Is record Record data is Package and deliver receives metadata or aerial film Done a referral ? reviewed Film to agency No Yes Perform a physical Use record data Package film in a new Is record Order film from WNRC inventory of the film to label box exempt or box and assign a exempt? when received declassified new accession number No Label same box Return box to with a new control WNRC number Physically review film for classified info Deliver to NARA Package film for Complete delivery to NARA NGA Records Management Program is an ISO 9000-Certified Process - Airborne Imagery Intelligence Declass Review Program is a Sub-Process of the NGA Records Management Program- Airborne Imagery Auto Declass Program Began Mar 03 - Methodology: Pass/Fail NGA Auto Declassification Review Process: Airborne Imagery Intelligence Program

  11. Pages Declassified Pages Exempt Pages Referred NGA Auto Declassification Progress: Airborne Imagery Intelligence Program REVIEW METHODOLOGY • Requirements for 31 Dec 2006: Continue Reducing Film Backlog • Reviews to be Conducted: Complete by 31 Dec 2011 Total Reviewed (as of 30 Sep 06): 103,038 Aerial Film Cans* 45,041 Aerial Film Cans Exempt 44% 57,997 Aerial Film Cans Declassified 56% AerialFilm Cans Referred: None • Other Requirements: Aerial Film Cans for Review by 2011 • Deadline – 68K (34M Text Page Equivalents) • *Note: 103K Film Cans (Special Media) Reviewed = 51.5M Equivalent Text Pages Based • on Conversion Formula: 1 Aerial Film Can = 500 frames (avg) = 500 text pages (equiv)

  12. FUTURE FOCUS AREAS REVIEW METHODOLOGY • Transition from Film to Digital Media: • - Digital Only Imagery Production will Impact NGA Auto Declass Program • - Archival Requirements Policy and Process will be Needed for Review of • Digital Records • Ramifications of Our Success: • - Declassified Aerial Film Transferred to NARA Custody Required for • NGA’s Mission Today • - Declassified Aerial Film Cans Requested from NARA for NGA Imagery • Analysts Compete with External Customers • - Working with NARA Loan Process to Reduce Strain on Resources • Recent BRAC Decision to Move NGA East: • - Numerous NGA East Buildings to Consolidate to One Campus at • Fort Belvoir, Virginia • - Stand-Up New Campus East (NCE) by 2011 • -Impacts the NGA Auto Declass Program - Rolling Program/Referrals

  13. TOTAL TEXT PAGES REVIEWED TOTAL AERIAL FILM CANS REVIEWED (Text Page Equiv) SUMMARY OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS REVIEW METHODOLOGY • Our Program: • Processes Well Established (ISO 9000-Certified) • Meets Requirements of E.O. 12958, as amended • NGA has met the 31 DEC 06 Deadline for Textual Records Review & • will meet the 31 DEC 11 for Special Media Review • NGA Declass Program in Place to Meet Existing Future Deadlines 51.5M Equivalent TextualPages (Special Media) Reviewed Thru FY06 (103,038 Aerial Film Cans) 18.6M Textual Records Reviewed Thru FY06

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