Records Management Inspections
Under 44 U.S.C. 2904(c)(7) and 2906, NARA has the authority to conduct inspections or surveys of the records and records management practices of Federal agencies for the purpose of providing recommendations for improvements. The criteria for selecting agencies for inspection or records management program review include, but are not limited to, the results of an agency's annual records management self-assessment, the significance of certain records and the related business processes, the risk of improper management of records, and the presence of important issues that are relevant to management of Federal records in general.
Each inspection or review focuses on one or more specific elements of an agency's records management program.
Inspection reports are published below by year and are in PDF format:
Fiscal Year 2024
Fiscal Year 2023
- Department of Defense/Department of the Army Records Management Program
- Department of Defense/Department of the Navy Records Management Program
Fiscal Year 2022
- Management of Permanent Records at Selected Agencies and Offices of the Department of Agriculture
- Management of Permanent Records at Selected Bureaus and Offices of the Department of Treasury
- Farm Credit Administration Records Management Program
- Records Management Practices of Executive Secretariats: Multi-Agency Inspection Report
- Management of Permanent Regulatory Records Multi-Agency Inspection Report
- American Battle Monuments Commission Records Management Program
Fiscal Year 2021
- Boards, Commissions and Foundations Multi-Agency Inspection Report
- Department of Energy Multi-Agency Inspection Report, Management of Permanent Records
- Department of Defense Fiscal Years 2017-2021/Inspection Series Summary Report
Fiscal Year 2020
- Department of Defense/Office of the Secretary of Defense Records Management Program
- Department of Defense/Defense Information Systems Agency Records Management Program
- Department of State Records Management Program
- Multi-Agency Inspection Report, Managing Permanent Records
- Multi-Agency Inspection Report of Disaster Response and Recovery (DRR) Records
- Summary Inspection Report of Research and Development (R&D) Records FY 2018 - FY 2019
- Department of Defense/Joint Staff and Combatant Commands Records Management Programs
- Department of Education Records Management Program
Fiscal Year 2019
- Department of the Air Force Records Management Program
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration Research and Development Records
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Research and Development Records
- Summary Report of Inspections of Departmental Federal Records Management Programs FY 2015 - FY 2018
- Tennessee Valley Authority Research and Development Records
- Department of Health and Human Services Records Management Program
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Research and Development Records
- United States Geological Survey Research and Development Records
- Department of Housing and Urban Development Records Management Program
Fiscal Year 2018
- Department of Defense/National Guard Bureau, Army National Guard, and Air National Guard Records Management Programs
- Department of Homeland Security/U.S. Customs and Border Protection Records Management Program
- International Boundary and Water Commission Records Management Program
- Department of Defense/Defense Technical Information Center Records Management Program
- Department of Justice Records Management Program
Fiscal Year 2017
- Department of Defense/Defense Logistics Agency Records Management Program
- Department of Labor Records Management Program
- Department of Agriculture Records Management Program
- Department of Transportation Records Management Program
Fiscal Year 2016
- Department of Commerce Records Management Program
- Department of Homeland Security Records Management Program
- Department of the Interior Records Management Program
- Department of Veterans Affairs Records Management Program
- Department of the Navy Enterprise-Wide Electronic Records Management Systems
Fiscal Year 2015
- Department of the Treasury Records Management Program
- Department of Energy Records Management Program
- Department of the Treasury/Internal Revenue Service
Fiscal Year 2014
- National Transportation Safety Board Records Management Program
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Office of Records Management Services
- United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission Records Management Program
Fiscal Year 2013
- Department of Homeland Security Shared Use of Alien Registration Files by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
- Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration: Records Management Practices at the National Laboratories: Sandia, Lawrence Livermore, and Los Alamos