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Fusion42 · 28 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
The National Defence Industrial Association is calling on the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council to clarify CUI (Controlled Unclassified Information) requirements in a proposed FAR rule, arguing that the current definition lacks a commercial products carveout and creates compliance burdens for defence contractors.
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The Pentagon is about to impose tighter CUI rules on government contracts, but the draft rule treats commercial products the same as bespoke defence systems. If you sell off-the-shelf tech to defence primes, you need to comment on the FAR proposal now—the carveout either gets written in or your customers will have to treat commodity goods as classified work.
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