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Rare Element Solutions
Secure media lifecycle
and rare-earth recovery.
Rare Element Solutions provides a secure, behind-the-fence pathway for recovering rare-earth elements from retired hard drives and other e-waste. Its proposed government model combines controlled media destruction, chain-of-custody reporting, material separation, and recovery, routing material to government-directed custody for potential inclusion in the national strategic stockpile.
SBA certifiedSDVOSBSBA certifiedVOSB
Government recovery pathway: secure site, sponsor, and operating authorization.
What RES does
Services and capabilities
RES connects secure media retirement to recovery of rare-earth elements from e-waste and retired hard drives.
Rare-earth element recovery
Build a recovery workflow around acid-free dissolution recycling (ADR), separating rare-earth elements from magnet-bearing hard-drive material.
Secure-site operations
Define media inputs, security controls, measurements, and custody requirements for a government deployment.
Domestic strategic-material supply
Route recovered material to government-directed custody for potential inclusion in the national strategic stockpile.
Working with RES
Three steps for a secure government recovery program
RES’s proposed operating model keeps classified media on site, controls custody, and reports the recovery output. Government asset owners set the security requirements, custody, and evaluation criteria.
Intake and protect
Receive retired hard drives, serialize the inventory, and maintain chain of custody. Classified work remains behind the government fence.
Retire and separate
Destroy or shred media under NIST SP 800-88/NSA-aligned controls, then separate magnet-bearing material through an acid-free recovery process.
Return and evaluate
Route recovered material to government-directed custody and report the measurements that establish recovery performance and next steps.
Company details
Company and contracting information
Legal entity
Rare Element Solutions, LLCCAGE 0QHT8 · UEI WKS4VJ8UZ197
Business status
SBA-certified VOSB and SDVOSB
Program stage
Government recovery pathwayRES is pursuing secure-site, sponsor, and contracting authorization.
Technology basis
DOE/CMI ADR research basisThe recovery pathway is based on DOE/CMI research; RES is pursuing a government deployment.
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