The NARA history page states that in August 2012, under Ferriero’s leadership, NARA and the Office of Management and Budget “produced the Managing Government Records Directive to modernize and improve federal records management practices.” It adds that this and later directives “put the federal government on a path to becoming completely digital.”
OMB and NARA issued memorandum M-12-18, Managing Government Records Directive, dated August 24, 2012. That is a government directive. It is not an accusation. It is here because the same official later administered the Presidential Records Act against a former president he did not serve as a political appointee of.
NARA also credits him with Open Government language in 2010, a “citizen archivists” program, three presidential libraries added to the system (George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald J. Trump), and pandemic remote work in his last two years. Those are agency claims on an official page. They are not repeated here as a press release.