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We are an independent office within the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) that helps the Agency to more effectively and efficiently ensure ready access to essential evidence. We are responsible for bringing particularly serious problems, abuses, or deficiencies to the immediate attention of Congress while keeping the Archivist of the United States informed.

We are agents of positive change striving for continuous improvement in our agency's management and program operations and in our own office.