On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 10:37 AM, PeterK <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> "normally I don't comment on stories, but this story is amazing. this reads
> like Lockheed-Martin has no records management/archives program at all"
>
> Every so often employees at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics are asked to clean
> house. They go through their desk drawers and file cabinets to discard old
> and unnecessary materials to make space for the new.
>
> This process often results in unearthing items of historical significance.
> This was the case in 1990 and again 2006, when concepts or advanced design
> drawings, reports, and other documents dating back to the 1940s and ’50s
> were found.
>

On the surface, I agree this *IS* what it looks/sounds like, but that is
laughable... seeing as Lock-Mart is who was at the core of setting up
NARA's ERA system.... BUT, that also may go a long way towards explaining
WHY ERA isn't very well adopted.

I think it's probably much more true that they have a very ineffective and
not very robustly supported corporate RM Program. It's not too uncommon in
large EPC (Engineering Procurement Contract) environments that systems are
"distributed" and not "institutional" or "centralized" in nature.   Lots of
work is done on a Project basis, where the deliverables generated mostly
all belong to the client, and at project end, everything that is required
by the project is turned over to the client.

It's possible that much of what the article calls out as "...items of
historical significance" or "...concepts or advanced design drawings,
reports, and other documents dating back to the 1940s and ’50s..." could be
copies of items that were retained that were determined to be "for
reference only" by those who retained them.  And YES, it's possible that
some of these items MAY BE the only copies anyone can find now, but that
could be because the original 'records' were turned over to the client who
remunerated Lock-Mart (or Lockheed or Martin-Marietta, or their
predecessors at those times) and should not have been retained at all.

If that's the case, many of these items MAY BE accurately categorized as
"...old and unnecessary materials...", simply because they shouldn't have
been retained in the first place, and depending on the content, MAY require
review by an Authorized Derivative Classifier or someone else to determine
if there is anything sensitive or classified in their individual content,
or if a combination of these items may mosaically result in exposing
classified content.

Larry

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Larry
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