"Neither the Air Force nor Lockheed Martin, the defense firm that runs the database, could say why it became corrupted or whether they’ll be able to recover the

"Neither the Air Force nor Lockheed Martin, the defense firm that runs the database, could say why it became corrupted or whether they’ll be able to recover the information." Incumbent trusts local IT manager and local IT manager has contract with external company. The question becomes: "Did the contract with Lockheed Martin cover any form of regular backup and additionally some form of long term open format archiving?" Perhaps some checklists or standards that all long term record keeping systems need to comply with would be good.