# Presentation: 514534

## 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**

## Slide 2

## 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.

**  **NGA 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

- 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

- NGA Automatic Declassification Program History

##  REVIEW SITES

** ****REVIEW SITES**

**  **NGA Auto Declassification Program Review Sites

**NARA II, College Park, MD**

**Washington Navy Yard**

**DIAC – Bolling AFB, Washington DC**

**International Point, Herndon, VA**

**National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Arnold, MO**

**Bethesda**

**Reston**

**Westfield**

**NGA College**

- NGA Sites

- Auto Declass Program Review Sites

**National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, St. Louis, MO**

- NGA and Auto Declass Program Review Sites

##  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

**  **NGA Auto Declassification Program:  Progress & Plans

##   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 Records Management Program is    an ISO 9000-Certified Process-  Geospatial Intelligence Declass   Review Program is a Sub-Process of the   NGA Records Management Program

- Geospatial Intelligence Auto Declass
-   Program Began Feb 98
- Methodology:  Pass/Fail

##  REVIEW METHODOLOGY

-  Requirement for 31 Dec 2006:  On Target for 15.5M Pages
-  Reviews to be Conducted by 31 Dec 06:  247K Pages

**  **NGA Auto Declassification Progress:                    Geospatial Intelligence Program

**12.2M Pages Declassified**
**80.3%**

**2.7M Pages Exempt**
**17.8%**

**280K Pages Referred**
**1.9%**

- Total Reviewed (as of 30 Sep 06):  15.2 Million Pages of Textual Records

-  Other Requirements:  Estimated Textual Referrals
-    Required by 12/31/2009 – 1.2 Million Pages

##    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 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)

##  REVIEW METHODOLOGY

-  Requirements for 31 Dec 2006:  On Target for 3.36M Pages
-  Reviews to be Conducted by 31 Dec 06:  12.5K Pages

**  **NGA Auto Declassification Progress:                 Imagery Analysis Products Program

**415.5K  Declassified**
**12.4%**

**2.9 M Pages Exempt**
**87%**

**15.7K Pages Referred**
**.6%          **

- Total Reviewed (as of 30 Sep 06):   3.35 Million Pages of Textual Records

-  Other Requirements:  Estimated Textual Referrals
-     Required by 12/31/2009 – 10K Pages

##     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 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

##  REVIEW METHODOLOGY

-  Requirements for 31 Dec 2006:  Continue Reducing Film Backlog
-  Reviews to be Conducted:  Complete by 31 Dec 2011

**  **NGA Auto Declassification Progress:                    Airborne Imagery Intelligence Program

**57,997 Aerial Film **
**Cans  Declassified**
**56%**

**45,041 Aerial Film**
** ****Cans Exempt**
**44%**

**Aerial**** ****Film Cans**
** ****Referred:  None**

- Total Reviewed (as of 30 Sep 06):  103,038 Aerial Film Cans*

-  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)

##  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

**  **FUTURE FOCUS AREAS

##  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

**18.6M Textual Records**
** ****Reviewed Thru FY06****  **

**51.5M Equivalent Textual**** ****Pages (Special Media)**
**       ****Reviewed Thru FY06 (103,038 Aerial Film Cans)**

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