National Archives Picks Lockheed Martin to Build Digital Repository for U.S. Government

The National Archives and Records Administration has awarded a $308-million contract to the Lockheed Martin Corporation to build a computer system to preserve the federal government's electronic records.

Allen Weinstein, the archivist of the United States, said this month that the system, called the Electronic Records Archives, or ERA (http://www.archives.gov/era), will be invaluable to academic researchers because the federal government is creating more and more documents only in

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