FGS Conference, Day 4

Ren Cahoon, CIO of the National Archives and Records Administration gave a presentation that showed how the government's new electronic archive will work. I've been following this for a few years, and I was really excited to hear about this. On Thursday, September 8th, a contract was awarded to Lockheed-Martin to build this system. The cost? 308 Million. Yeah, that explains why no one has tried to do this before.

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