Case Study: United States Marine Corps achieves records-management compliance and quarantines sensitive Afghanistan war records with ActiveNav

How United States Marine Corps Targets War Records

The United States Marine Corps faced a massive backlog of unstructured NIPR and SIPR data accumulated over a decade in Afghanistan—emails, Office files, PDFs, images and hour‑by‑hour records that included PII, medical information and data spillage and were out of compliance with DoD Instruction 5015.02. After vetting, the Marine Corps selected ActiveNav to analyze, sort and organize the corpus, adopting a five‑step SOP (discover, cleanse, organize, evaluate, migrate) and deploying ActiveNav’s automated records‑management and data‑processing services.

ActiveNav implemented automated discovery, ROT cleansing, metadata classification and quarantine workflows, indexing over 100 TB of data, identifying 77% of content as ROT, locating tens of thousands of sensitive files within unclassified collections, and categorizing millions of documents using the DON SSIC. As a result, the United States Marine Corps achieved records‑management compliance, quarantined sensitive PII and medical records, gained operational insight for training and doctrine, and is expanding the program to additional units.

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