16AFI16-1401 — Disintegration and Destruction of Classified Material and Media Degaussing

16AFI16-1401 governs the disintegration and destruction of classified material and media degaussing at Sixteenth Air Force facilities.

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  • Publication number: 16AFI16-1401
  • Title: Disintegration and Destruction of Classified Material and Media Degaussing
  • Date: 2025-03-18

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It addresses disintegration responsibilities, degaussing responsibilities, and procedures for ISSM/ISSO personnel. It requires labeled waste bags, controlled delivery, appointments for degaussing, and specified handling of storage media.

Topics covered

  • Classified material disintegration
  • Media degaussing
  • DDS waste bag handling
  • Hard drive sanitization
  • Magnetic tape disposal
  • CD and DVD destruction
  • Memory chip destruction
  • Circuit board destruction

Questions and answers

What labels are required for paper and plastic waste bags?

Ensure that only paper products are placed in bags with an affixed 16 AF Form 107, Paper Waste Bag label and plastic products are placed in bags with an affixed 16 AF Form 108, Plastic Waste Bag label. (paragraph 1)

Can plastic waste bags be placed in the drop chutes?

Do not use the chutes to drop “PLASTIC ONLY” bags; hand carry “PLASTIC ONLY” bags to the DDS facility. (paragraph 1)

How are appointments made to degauss magnetic storage media?

Will contact the DDS, Comm. 210-977-2610 (DSN 969) to make an appointment to degauss magnetic storage media. (paragraph 2)

What size hard drives can the degausser process?

The degausser will only degauss hard drives 3.5 inches or smaller. (paragraph 3)

What happens to magnetic tapes?

Magnetic tapes will be sent to NSA for disposal. (paragraph 3)

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