What are US Department of Defense erasure standards?

What are US Department of Defense erasure standards?

John Shegerian (CEO, Electronic Waste Recyclers) gives expert video advice on: Do I have to erase all the information on my hard drive before recycling?; What is a 'Certificate of Destruction'?; What are US Department of Defense erasure standards? and more...

Homeland Security and the US Department of Defense require absolute destruction of all of their materials, which means not only are all of the materials de-manufactured, their hard drives are all shredded. That's the highest and best form of recycling to make sure that our national secrets never get into the hands of any wrong people. It's absolutely critical to adhere to the national defense standards and the Homeland Security standards, which require de-manufacturing and shredding of their hard drives.