NGA Automatic Declassification Program

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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
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Declassification Program History
NGA 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.
• NIMAs 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.

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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 Agencys first NGA
  Declassification Program Plan to ISOO in January
  2004. The plan consolidated review production
  data from NGAs three Declass Programs
• - GEOSPATIAL
  INTELLIGENCE
• - IMAGERY
  ANALYSIS PRODUCTS
• - AIRBORNE
  IMAGERY INTELLIGENCE

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REVIEW SITES
NGA Auto Declassification Program 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
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REVIEW METHODOLOGY
NGA Auto Declassification Program Progress
Plans

• 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

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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
  

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REVIEW METHODOLOGY
NGA Auto Declassification Progress
Geospatial Intelligence Program

• 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

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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
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REVIEW METHODOLOGY
NGA Auto Declassification Progress
Imagery Analysis Products Program

• 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

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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
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REVIEW METHODOLOGY
NGA Auto Declassification Progress
Airborne Imagery Intelligence Program

• 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
Aerial Film 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)

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REVIEW METHODOLOGY
FUTURE FOCUS AREAS

• 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
• NGAs 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

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REVIEW METHODOLOGY
SUMMARY OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• 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 Textual Pages (Special Media)
Reviewed Thru FY06 (103,038 Aerial Film Cans)
18.6M Textual Records Reviewed Thru FY06
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