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Purpose

This Department of the Army (DA) pamphlet (DA Pam) provides Army personnel and contractors with specific implementation guidance and procedures to ensure disposition and sanitization of any item of information technology (IT) equipment containing electronic storage media prior to reuse, transfer within Army, or permanent removal from Army custody. This DA Pam does not address the reuse of hard disk drives (HDD) that is covered in separate DA Pam. When IT equipment containing storage media is transferred, becomes obsolete, or is no longer usable or required by an information system, responsible personnel will ensure that residual magnetic, optical, electrical, or other representation of data stored on the device is processed so the information cannot be retrieved and reconstructed, reducing the risk of compromise to Army data.