Industries · Government Contractors
Media Vaulting for Government Contractors
Contract obligations frequently specify how data is handled, where it is held, and how it is destroyed — and they are audited against, not assumed.
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Why it matters
The pressure this sector is actually under
Flow-down clauses put handling requirements on you regardless of your size, and the evidence burden falls on the contractor. Destruction in particular is a common finding: certificates from vendors nobody watched, covering media nobody serialized.
What firms in this sector hand us
- Backup tape and drive sets
- Project records and deliverable archives
- Retired hardware holding contract data
- Media scheduled for destruction
Compliance
Frameworks that usually apply
These pages describe what physical custody contributes. They are general background, not legal advice, and they do not state retention periods.
Services this sector uses most
LTO Tape Vaulting
Tape is genuinely offline once it leaves the drive. Kept at stable temperature, with every barcode reconciled at intake.
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Hard Drive & SSD Storage
Drives pulled from a retired array end up in an office cabinet. Here they are logged by serial and stored sealed.
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Server & Rack Component Storage
A decommissioned server still holds data. Shelved, logged by asset tag, released only to the people you name.
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Physical Records Storage
Boxes logged against your own index and shelved rather than stacked. Paper is the medium water ruins first.
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Retention
The retention pressure in this sector
Contractor retention is contractual before it is regulatory. Obligations arrive through the contract and its flow-down clauses, which means two contracts in the same office can impose different requirements on the same kind of record. Audit rights typically extend well past performance, so the records that matter are usually the ones from a completed job nobody is thinking about any more.
In practice
What an engagement looks like
Engagements here start with a requirement someone has been handed rather than a storage problem they noticed. Because obligations are contract-specific, the first thing we ask is what the contract actually requires, and the honest answer is often that we cannot tell you — that is a question for your contracts counsel. What we can do is provide documented custody, environmental control and a retrievable record, and describe exactly what our part covers so it can be checked against the clause.
Questions from government contractors
- Can you meet a specific contract handling clause?
- Send us the clause. We will tell you plainly what we do and do not meet rather than saying yes to everything.
- Do you hold classified material?
- No. We are not a cleared facility and we do not claim to be.
- Is destruction witnessed and serialized?
- Yes, both. The certificate lists every serial and who witnessed it.
Other sectors we serve
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Tours are private and by appointment. You will see the vault door, the man-trap entry, and the box sizes in person. No account relationship is required to visit.