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What NARA buys

NARA pain points

What NARA is actively trying to fix — sourced from agency strategic plans, IG reports, and FY26 budget justifications. Map your capabilities to these and you're writing toward an evaluator's actual problem.

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  FY2026 budget cut to $414.7M — nearly $60M less than FY2025 projected spending and $93M less than FY2024, with 136 FTE positions eliminated

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  Electronic Records Initiative (ERI) budget cut by 33% in FY2026, receiving 56% less than 2007 funding levels despite exponential growth in federal electronic records

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  FOIA declassification backlog: 183M pages at Bush Library and 128M at Obama Library — capacity to declassify only 500,000 pages/year means 622 years to clear backlog

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  National Declassification Center has only 58 employees with just 8 FOIA/MDR staff — more presidential libraries than declassifiers

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  ERA 2.0 (Electronic Records Archives) deployment plagued by bugs — roughly 2,000 of 104,000 migrated forms affected, with deployment delayed per OIG audit

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  Digitization goal of 500M pages by September 2026 only 40% complete (200M pages as of August 2025), requiring massive acceleration

FY26 funding priorities

Where the money is moving inside NARA in the current and upcoming fiscal years.

• $20M Digitization Center at Archives II with text-scanning equipment and sensitive cameras, targeting 500M pages by September 2026
• ERA 2.0 cloud-based electronic records system handling 900+ terabytes — development and migration contracts for records from White House, Congress, and agencies
• Enterprise IAM solution, Cloud Access Security Broker, and Login.gov phishing-resistant MFA implementation for NARA applications
• 2026 Annual Move transferring 9,000+ Transfer Requests from Federal Records Centers to archival custodial units — logistics and processing contracts
• Federal Records Centers Program managing 30M cubic feet across 18 facilities — storage, retrieval, and disposition services