Data Security, Inc.

Data Security, Inc., a for-profit small business manufacturer headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska, designs and produces NSA-approved data destruction equipment for federal agencies and the Department of Defense as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards) competing predominantly in full-and-open procurements on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule.

The vendor's core capability is manufacturing NSA-certified solid-state media disintegrators, hard-disk drive degaussers, media crackers, and shredders—equipment used across federal and military installations to securely eliminate classified and sensitive digital information from storage devices. Representative recent work includes a $118,567 extended-warranty delivery order from Naval Sea Systems Command for SSMD-2MM solid-state media disintegrators covering Guam, Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico (Sept 2026); a $234,540 purchase order from Army Forces Command for an SSD disintegrator at Fort Irwin, California (July 2026); and a $762,740 delivery order from the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support for degaussers and destruction equipment nationwide (Sept 2024). The vendor also delivers preventative maintenance, repair, extended warranty, and on-site certification services—a $46,400 purchase order from Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex for repair labor and materials through August 2029 exemplifies this service footprint.

Customer concentration is heavily skewed toward defense operations. The top five customers by award count—the Department of the Air Force (132 awards, $3.1 million), Naval Sea Systems Command (103 awards, $2.9 million), the Department of the Army (82 awards, $1.4 million), Air Combat Command (76 awards, $2.9 million), and the Marine Corps (64 awards, $2.5 million)—account for 24% of awards but the ranking by dollar value shifts dramatically: the GSA Federal Acquisition Service anchors the vendor's revenue with 19 awards carrying $65 million combined potential value, reflecting bulk procurements and resale channels. The Air National Guard follows with 60 awards at $5.2 million. This divergence signals that the GSA MAS vehicle concentrates large, multi-location orders while operational commands place numerous smaller, single-unit acquisitions.

The GSA Multiple Award Schedule is Data Security's dominant vehicle: 1,166 task orders carry $56.6 million in combined potential value. Smaller vehicles—Seaport Next Generation (4 task orders), Alliant II (2), and one indefinite-delivery contract (2 task orders, $606 thousand)—provide marginal volume. The vendor competes full-and-open across the MAS without set-aside protection; only a subset of individual awards carry Total Small Business or Competitive 8(a) set-aside designations, indicating opportunistic pursuit rather than a reserved-category strategy.

Activity has contracted sharply. The vendor recorded 81 awards in 2022, 91 in 2023, 84 in 2024, then 58 in 2025 and only 16 through mid-September 2026—a trajectory suggesting market saturation or customer consolidation. Only $300 thousand in combined potential value faces recompete within the next twenty-four months, presenting minimal near-term cliff exposure but raising questions about pipeline sustainability.

Sub-work is negligible (1% of awards, 19 total); recent examples include supply of media disintegrators and degaussers to HII Mission Technologies on Air National Guard operational training (October 2025) and to Fluor Marine Propulsion on naval nuclear laboratory operations (June 2025). The vendor functions almost exclusively as a prime, not as a subcontractor to integrators.

Data Security's category footprint reflects its core business: Carbon Paper and Inked Ribbon Manufacturing leads by award count (853 awards, a likely misclassification), followed by Computer and Office Machine Repair and Maintenance (357 awards) and Computer Storage Device Manufacturing (38 awards). PSC concentration is similarly concentrated: Miscellaneous Office Machines (418 awards), Information Technology Support Equipment (302), and Degaussing and Mine Sweeping Equipment (79) dominate. The vendor's NAICS and PSC profile confirms a narrow, specialized niche—data destruction hardware and lifecycle maintenance rather than IT services or system integration.

MANUFACTURER OF DEGAUSSERS and DESTRUCTION DEVICES.