•NARA must own and control
at least one set of all holdings of electronic records entrusted to
it
•The ERA system is one of
NARA’s contributions to the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA)
•NARA must produce a highly
reliable system design
•NARA must take a long term
view for the system’s operation and its required scalability, reliability and cost effective
operations
–Support outsourcing of
potential processing, hosting services, and value added processing
–While ensuring NARA’s
stewardship of the records entrusted to it