Blue Revive performs project-based IT decommissioning in Augusta and Richmond County, covering server room teardown, office consolidation, healthcare and campus equipment removal, and sanitization or destruction of data-bearing media to a specified outcome with documentation issued per unit. Contact us to scope an Augusta project.
The Augusta Decommissioning Profile
Augusta has an unusual economic profile for a mid-sized Southern city, and it is built on cybersecurity. Fort Gordon, the Army post southwest of the city, hosts the U.S. Army Cyber Command, the Cyber Center of Excellence, and the Georgia Cryptologic Center operated by the National Security Agency. The Augusta Economic Development Authority has reported roughly 31,155 military and civilian personnel on site with an annual economic impact approaching 2.4 billion dollars. Downtown, the Georgia Cyber Center adds a state-built research, training, and incubation campus.
The installation was redesignated Fort Eisenhower in October 2023 and restored to Fort Gordon in 2025, now honoring Master Sergeant Gary I. Gordon. Local documentation still carries both names, which is worth knowing when reconciling older asset records and site paperwork.
Around that core sits a contractor and subcontractor base supporting the cyber and signal mission, the Augusta University academic and health system, and a conventional commercial estate. The result is a decommissioning market where a meaningful share of retired equipment carries federal contract obligations rather than ordinary commercial ones.
Augusta Compliance Considerations
Verify all requirements with counsel and, for federal contract work, with your contracting officer or security officer. Nothing here substitutes for either.
Scope boundary, stated plainly. Blue Revive handles unclassified commercial and contractor equipment. Classified media destruction is a separate regime requiring cleared facilities and equipment evaluated against National Security Agency standards, and it is not within this scope. If equipment may have processed classified information, route it through your security officer's prescribed channel rather than through a commercial vendor. Saying so up front avoids a serious problem later.
Controlled unclassified information. Contractors holding covered defense information are subject to Department of Defense safeguarding requirements under DFARS that reference NIST Special Publication 800-171 for protecting controlled unclassified information, and Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification requirements are phasing into Department of Defense contracts. Media disposition sits inside those obligations. Confirm what your specific contracts require and specify the sanitization outcome and evidence format before equipment moves.
Method reference. NIST Special Publication 800-88 Revision 1 defines Clear, Purge, and Destroy as distinct outcomes with different assurance levels. Federal contract environments typically specify the outcome required; get that in writing at scoping rather than after collection.
Healthcare and commercial. The HIPAA Security Rule addresses media disposal and reuse at 45 CFR 164.310(d)(2) for the health system, practices, and their business associates. O.C.G.A. section 10-15-2 prohibits discarding a record holding personal information without shredding, erasing, rendering it unreadable, or otherwise reasonably preventing unauthorized access. The Georgia Personal Identity Protection Act at O.C.G.A. section 10-1-910 and following governs breach notification, with section 10-1-912(b) requiring a party holding data for an owner to notify that owner within 24 hours of discovering a breach, and the statute was amended in 2007 to reach public universities and other state and local agencies. Senate Bill 111, the Georgia Consumer Privacy Protection Act, took effect July 1, 2026.
Waste and transport. Georgia has no state electronics recycling mandate and no general landfill ban, leaving the obligation with the generator. Georgia hazardous waste rules at Chapter 391-3-11 incorporate federal generator and universal waste standards. Lithium-bearing equipment is regulated in transport under UN3480 and UN3481.
What a Decommission Covers
The table below outlines the scope of a typical decommissioning project.
Augusta and CSRA Coverage
Service covers downtown Augusta and the Georgia Cyber Center area, the Washington Road and West Augusta commercial corridor, the medical district, the Augusta Corporate Park and industrial areas, Fort Gordon-adjacent contractor facilities, and the surrounding Columbia County communities of Evans, Martinez, and Grovetown.
Augusta sits roughly two and a half hours from the Blue Revive facility in Buford, so work is scheduled as a planned project. For contractor sites, badge processing, escort requirements, and approved removal windows typically drive the timeline more than the physical work does. Raise them at the first conversation. Contact us to scope an Augusta project.
Who We Serve
Defense and cyber contractors and subcontractors, technology firms in the Georgia Cyber Center ecosystem, health system and medical practice operations, university and campus IT, county and municipal agencies, manufacturers and industrial operations, professional services and corporate offices, and managed service providers supporting regulated clients.
Chain of Custody and Documentation
In a contract-driven environment, the evidence package is the deliverable. Assets are enumerated at the point of removal by serial identifier, recorded against the removal plan, sealed for transport, and reconciled at intake with variances documented rather than absorbed.
The closing package includes an itemized report keyed to serial identifiers, certificates of destruction for processed media, certificates of recycling for recovered material, and downstream handling records. Organizations with contract reporting obligations should specify the required content and format before work begins so the output satisfies the requirement as issued rather than needing reconstruction. Documentation supports an audit position. It does not by itself guarantee a compliance outcome.
How a Decommission Runs
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Survey and classify. Inventory equipment, identify data-bearing media, and separate anything that may hold controlled unclassified information, protected health information, or federal contract information for handling under a defined procedure.
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Confirm the boundary. Verify with your security officer that no equipment in scope processed classified information before commercial handling proceeds.
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Clear access. Arrange site approvals, badge and escort requirements, insurance certificates, and approved removal windows.
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Remove and capture. Pull equipment, record serial identifiers at the point of removal, and palletize for transport.
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Transport under custody. Move sealed material under the defined arrangement, with battery and lithium items handled to applicable transport rules.
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Process media and assets. Sanitize or destroy media to the specified outcome, evaluate remaining assets for resale where permitted, and route the balance to controlled recovery.
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Close the file. Issue the documentation package in the agreed format.
Augusta Decommissioning Questions
Can you handle classified media?
No. Classified destruction requires cleared facilities and equipment evaluated against National Security Agency standards, and it falls outside this service. Route any equipment that may have processed classified information through the channel your security officer prescribes. Blue Revive handles unclassified commercial and contractor equipment.
We are a contractor with CUI on retired systems. What do we need to specify?
Confirm with your contracting officer what your contracts require, then specify the sanitization outcome using the Clear, Purge, and Destroy definitions in NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 1, the point in the process at which it must occur, and the evidence format your reporting requires. Contractors subject to DFARS safeguarding requirements referencing NIST SP 800-171 should treat media disposition as part of that obligation, and should note that CMMC requirements are phasing into Department of Defense contracts.
Is it Fort Gordon or Fort Eisenhower?
Fort Gordon. The post was redesignated Fort Eisenhower in October 2023 and restored to the Fort Gordon name in 2025, now honoring Master Sergeant Gary I. Gordon. Older asset records, site paperwork, and access documentation may still carry either name, which is worth checking when reconciling inventories.
How far in advance should an Augusta project be scheduled?
Plan on lead time driven by site access rather than by the work. Badge processing, escort availability, and approved removal windows at contractor and installation-adjacent facilities commonly add weeks. Given the distance from the Buford facility, consolidating buildings into a single mobilization is usually the most efficient approach.
Contact Blue Revive in Augusta
Contact us: https://www.bluerevive.co/contact
Office: 4540 Atwater CT, STE 107, Buford, GA 30518
To scope an Augusta IT decommissioning project, contact us.
