{"id":289091,"date":"2026-07-13T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T20:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/pentagon-suspends-cmmc-phase-two-requirements-launches-review-of-program\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T16:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T20:45:07","slug":"pentagon-suspends-cmmc-phase-two-requirements-launches-review-of-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/pentagon-suspends-cmmc-phase-two-requirements-launches-review-of-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon suspends CMMC phase two requirements, launches review of program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/cybersecurity\/2026\/07\/pentagon-suspends-cmmc-phase-two-requirements-launches-review-of-program\/\">Pentagon suspends CMMC phase two requirements, launches review of program<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/cybersecurity\/2026\/07\/pentagon-suspends-cmmc-phase-two-requirements-launches-review-of-program\/\">https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/cybersecurity\/2026\/07\/pentagon-suspends-cmmc-phase-two-requirements-launches-review-of-program\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-13 16:41:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"federalnewsnetwork.com\">federalnewsnetwork.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:smaller; color:#666666; margin-bottom: 1rem;\">DoD CIO Kirsten Davies is suspending plans to ramp up CMMC third-party assessments, as part of a review that casts doubt on the future of the current program.<\/p>\n<p>        Justin Doubleday<span class=\"byline_twitter\">@jdoubledayWFED<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n                <span class=\"Entry-date__date\">July 13, 2026<\/span> <span class=\"Entry-date__time\">4:39 pm<\/span>            <\/p>\n<p>2 min read<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon is suspending the ramp up of new Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification third-party assessment requirements, while also launching a sweeping review of the CMMC program that once again calls into question the future of the contractor cyber compliance regime.<\/p>\n<p>In a July 13 announcement, the Defense Department said it is suspending plans to introduce phase two of the CMMC requirements. That would have involved DoD requiring third-party cybersecurity assessments across all contracts involving sensitive but unclassified information starting Nov. 10, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>DoD says the phase one requirements for applicable contracts to require a CMMC self-assessment, which went into effect last November, remain in force.<\/p>\n<p>But the Pentagon is now launching a 60-day, \u201ctop-to-bottom\u201d review of the certification program, according to a July 13 memo signed out by DoD Chief Information Officer Kirsten Davies.<\/p>\n<p>]]<\/p>\n<p>The memo suggests that the CMMC program, as currently planned, conflicts with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth\u2019s Acquisition Transformation System initiative\u2019s focus on eliminating bureaucracy and enabling innovation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe current iteration of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/cybersecurity\/2026\/07\/pentagon-suspends-cmmc-phase-two-requirements-launches-review-of-program\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pentagon suspends CMMC phase two requirements, launches review of program https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/cybersecurity\/2026\/07\/pentagon-suspends-cmmc-phase-two-requirements-launches-review-of-program\/ Publish Date: 2026-07-13 16:41:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":289092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-1197780051-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289091"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289093,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289091\/revisions\/289093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}