1. JOINT SERVICES RECORDS RESEARCH CENTER
Service and Workforce Excellence for VETERANS
Domenic Baldini
Chief, JSRRC
/DSN

2. Introduction
Records Management & Declassification Agency was established to manage the various Army records programs...Records Management, Records Research, Declassification, FOIA/PA
Joint Services Records Research Center was assigned to RMDA for access to Army records
JSRRC recognized by Congress, DoD, Services, VA, Veterans, Veteran Organizations

3. RMDA Mission & Organization
Responsible for the entire spectrum of Army’s interrelated records management programs, with DA level responsibility for policies, programs & operations integrated into a single organizational structure.
DIRECTOR
Plans & Operations
Joint Services Records Research Center
Army Declassification
Army FOIA & Privacy
Army Records Management

4. Joint Services Records Research Center
CHIEF
CHIEF,
Strategic Outreach Branch
Policy & Actions Branch
Research & Analysis
Branch
Air Force
(All)
Army
( Agent Orange)
-Division Branch Coordination
-Administrative Mgmt
-Correspondence Mgmt
-Division Personnel Mgmt
-Division Automation
-Division Policy/Procedures
-Division Security Mgmt
-VA Liaison
Army PTSD
[Non-Vietnam (Bosnia, Korea, Germany, CONUS, Panama
OEF/OIF, Desert Storm)]
-NARA Oversight
-Records Outreach/Coordination
Army PTSD
(Vietnam)
Navy
( ALL)

5. JSRRC MISSION
The JOINT SERVICES RECORDS RESEARCH CENTER serves as the DOD Executive Agent for matters pertaining to post-traumatic stress disorder and agent orange military records research.
Serve America’s Veterans and their Families by supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs, veterans’ service organizations, veterans’ representatives, and congressional offices advocating for veterans disability claims.

6. JSRRC HISTORY May 1980 - Army Agent Orange Task Force (AOTF)
Dec Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Test Case
May U.S. Army & Joint Services Environmental Support Group (ESG)
Jul ESG Transferred to Office of Administrative Assistant
Jun DoD Executive Agent for ESG
Jul 1992 – DoD Executive Agent to Support VA with Environmental Health Research for Desert Storm
Mar 1997 – Re-designated U.S. Armed Services Center for Research of Unit Records Research
Jun Transferred to Personnel Command
Jun 1998 – Name change to Center for Unit Records Research
Joint Services Records Research Center

7. RMDA / JSRRC CUSTOMERS MISSION Identify Destroy/Retire Create Use
Veterans
(Claims include
Army, Air Force & Navy)
Department of the Army
Identify
Garrison
Destroy/Retire
Create
Department of Veterans
Affairs
Installation
MISSION
LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT:
ARMY RECORDS PROGRAMS
MACOM
Soldiers
Use
CONUS/OCONUS
Declassify/
Release
Congress
Records Management (Title 10/36 CFR)
Declassification (Executive Order 12958)
FOIA/Privacy Act (Executive Order 13392)
Records Research (PTSD, Agent Orange, etc.)
Department of Defense
Family Members
Other Federal
Agencies
Preserve
Veteran Organizations
General Public
Research
Civilians
Archive
Review
Global War on Terrorism
National Archives and Records Administration

8. Responsibilities Serve as Secretary of the Army Action Agent
Records Research in Support of Veterans’ Compensation Claims
Congressional responses
Partnership with Veterans Administration

9. Responsibilities (continued)
JSRRC Automated Claims Processing System (JCAPS)
Digital Asset Finder (DAF)
OVERSEE TWO ELECTRONIC DATA SYSTEMS
JACAPS MANAGES CLAIMS PROCESSING
DAF IS A RECORDS REPOSITORY FACILITATES RECORDS RESEARCH

10. WHAT CAN YOU DO FOR OUR VETERANS?
BE A PROACTIVE FORCE IN RM WITHIN YOUR COMMAND, GARRISON, ORGANIZATIONAL LEVEL
BE FAMILIAR WITH CONOPS RECORDS REQUIREMENTS:
EXPLAINED IN CALL HANDBOOK 09-22, “COMMANDER’S HANDBOOK FOR OPERATIONAL RECORDS AND DATA COLLECTION.”
AVAILABLE ON RMDA/RMD WEBSITE….
BE ON LOOK OUT FOR CONOPS RECORDS IN RHA, WITH TENANTS, WITH RETURNING UNITS. CONTACT JSRRC/RMD
LOOK FOR “COLLECTIONS” . MAY BE UNOFFICIAL UNIT RECORDS STORED AWAY BY A UNIT, HISTORIAN, LIBRARY.
PARTICULAR ABSENCE OF KOSOVO, BOSNIA, HAITI, SOMALIA CONOPS RECORDS. OEF/OIF: WE AREN’T SURE WHERE THEY ARE IN THE PROCESS
MEET WITH “RECORDS OFFICER” OF DEPLOYING UNITS (MOBILIZATION CENTER? TENANT COMMANDS?)
PROVIDE COPY OF COMMANDER’S HANDBOOK.
STRONGLY ADVISE TO CREATE, AND RETURN THESE RECORDS.
MEET WITH UNITS ON RETURN.

11. JOINT SERVICES RECORDS RESEARCH CENTER
QUESTIONS?