Government
ITAD insights built for the unique demands of public sector IT across federal, state, and local agencies. Covers secure disposal of government hardware, sensitive and classified data destruction requirements, vendor certifications like R2v3 and NAID AAA, and the compliance frameworks that govern how taxpayer funded assets retire. Written for IT directors, information security officers, and procurement teams who answer to auditors, oversight committees, and the public, where verifiable chain of custody and defensible documentation are not optional.
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Government
FedRAMP and ITAD: How Cloud Authorization Boundaries Affect On-Prem Asset Disposition for Federal Agencies
When a federal agency migrates a workload from on-premises infrastructure to a FedRAMP-authorized cloud service, the workload’s data security controls move with it; partly. The cloud service inherits FedRAMP authorization…
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GSA Acquisition Vehicles for ITAD: Schedule 36 vs Schedule 70 vs MAS Consolidation
A federal contracting officer looking to procure IT asset disposition in 2018 had to know two schedule numbers. One for IT services (Schedule 70). One for office and document solutions,…
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DoD 5220.22-M and Modern Solid-State Storage: Why the 1995 Standard Doesn’t Sanitize SSDs
“Wipe to DoD standard.” It is one of the most persistent phrases in federal and federal-adjacent ITAD procurement, appearing in statements of work and disposition policies that have not been…
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NSA EPL Equipment Guide: Approved Degaussers, Disintegrators, and Crushers for Classified Destruction
For classified storage media, equipment procurement is rule-bound. The National Security Agency maintains the Evaluated Products List (EPL) through its Center for Storage Device Sanitization Research (CSDSR), and any device…
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NIST 800-88 Rev 2 Implementation for Federal Agencies: What Changed and What Auditors Now Expect
NIST Special Publication 800-88 Revision 2 was published on September 26, 2025, formally superseding Revision 1 after a public comment period that closed August 29, 2025. For federal agencies operating…
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ITAD Supply Chain Risk for Government Agencies: Lessons From the 2025 Wisetek/Iron Mountain Incident
In February 2025, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia announced a guilty plea that should be required reading for every federal contracting officer responsible for IT disposition.…
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Business
ITAD Regulations 2026: What Every Business Needs to Know About the New Compliance Landscape
If your IT asset disposition program looked solid in 2024, that does not mean it looks solid now. The ITAD regulations 2026 brings to the table represent the biggest shift…
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Business
Windows 10 ITAD: Why Your Retired Fleet Is Losing Value Every Month It Sits in Storage
Microsoft ended free support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025. That date triggered the largest enterprise hardware refresh wave in a decade. By some estimates, 240 million PCs worldwide…
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Business
ITAD Chain of Custody: Why Most Companies Cannot Trace a Single Serial Number
Here is a test that exposes more ITAD programs than any audit ever will. Pick a serial number from a device your company retired in the last 12 months. Any…
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Business
The AI Server Decommissioning Wave Is Here. Is Your ITAD Program Ready?
Your data center team just got the memo. The racks of GPU servers you stood up eighteen months ago are already on the refresh list, and the ones coming in…
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