Friday 28 February 2014

Information accountability and transparency

a.                                                          Record-keeping requirements. Records created under the purview of this regulation, regardless of content or format, will be kept, at a minimum, in accordance with the retention schedules found at https://www.arims.army.mil. The Army Records Information Management System (ARIMS) is a role-based system managed and operated by the U.S. Army Records Management and Declassification Agency (RMDA). The primary purpose of ARIMS is to provide authorized personnel with Web-based tools and technology to manage both hardcopy and electronic Army records. Additional requirements at the State level, including statutory, legal, financial, or administrative by the authority of the State’s governor and adjutant general, will be governed by Title 32 of the United States Code and managed in accordance with State policy. Note that information used in decision-making and business processes is Army record material (whether stored electronically or as a hard copy), and is scheduled, maintained, and preserved in accordance with AR 25–400–2.

b.                                                          Information as a resource.



(1)          Except where restricted for reasons of national security, privacy, sensitivity, or proprietary rights, personnel will manage information as a shared resource and make it available to all authorized to access the information to accomplish their mission and functions. The cost to the Army of collecting Enterprise Email, processing, distributing, and storing information makes it impossible to view information as a free commodity. Army personnel must carefully plan requirements for information and supporting IT. The management of information resources and IT is applicable to all Army organizations.

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(2)          The IT and related investments will be evaluated in terms of direct support and compatibility with Army enterprise (AE) solutions, mandates, and processes and their corresponding information requirements.



(3)          The IT embedded in or integral to weapon systems, machines, medical instrumentation, servomechanisms, training devices, or test and evaluation (TE) systems, except for those systems with no external interface, are included in the provisions of this regulation. This regulation supports the precept that information is a strategic defense asset during peacetime and wartime, and the peacetime information infrastructure must support wartime requirements by providing information services for rapid deployment and sustainment of U.S. Armed Forces around the world.


The Army information architecture (AIA) was developed based on DOD’s information enterprise architecture (IEA) in order to enable better understanding and interoperability of shared information by providing guidance and compliance requirements to Army stakeholders. The AIA enables the design, development, deployment, and use of information systems that are consistent, comprehensive, compatible, and integrated across the Army enterprise. This multiplies the impact of agile, adaptive IT by leading to more efficient and effective computing environments; which as part of the common operating environment are less costly to develop, design, field, and support. In addition, the AIA aligns to the Army and DOD data strategy to make data visible, accessible, understandable, trusted (to include protection, assurance, and security), and interoperable throughout their life cycle to any authorized Army consumer or mission partner possessing the appropriate security clearance and need to know. The end state of the LandWarNet, enabled by integrating the AIA into overall Army Enterprise Architecture (AEA) activities, will consist of data-enriched applications with an increased ability to access, interact with, and use diverse data stores. This is done via a layer of standard data services, informed as needed by information exchange standards specifications (IESS) within or among communities of interest (COIs).

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