Public Interest Declassification Board

The Public Interest Declassification Board is holding its first public meeting of
2024 at the National Archives and Records Administration in the McGowan Theater.
This meeting will include presentations from the Department of State and the Office of the
Secretary of Defense (OSD) on projects using artificial intelligence (AI) applications for
modernizing declassification and FOIA processing.
Timothy Kootz, Director of the Office of Information Programs and Services in the Bureau of
Administration at the State Department, will deliver a presentation outlining the agency’s use of
AI for the declassification review of cables and a pilot project to process FOIA requests.
John D. Smith, OSD Federal Records Officer and Chief of the Washington Headquarters
Services, Executive Services Directorate, Records & Declassification Division and Dr. Michael
Brundage, Research Associate Engineer at the Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence
and Security (ARLIS), will discuss the progress in declassification modernization projects.