Records Mgmt & Archiving

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has established the Center for Advanced Systems and Technologies (NCAST) to serve as NARA's lead technology organization for advanced and applied research in the fields of computer science, engineering, and archival science. NCAST will address three major needs. (1) It will expand the scope of the advanced technology research that the Electronic Records Archives (ERA) Research Program has supported to a broader, NARA-wide perspective to identify, explore and evaluate new developments in computer science and related fields that are likely to impact the lifecycle management of records. (2) It will inaugurate a new applied research program to help bring the best new technologies and methods into NARA. (3) It will partner with other NARA offices to identify the specific types of expertise they will need in carrying out their function and to help them acquire or develop this expertise.

see: http://www.archives.gov/ncast/advanced-research.html