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Description: This page contains an overview of the Public Preview, including descriptions of the content sources and status.

Purpose: Helps folks understand the goals of the Public Preview and how to approach reviewing it.

Public Preview¶

Welcome to FedRAMP's Consolidated Rules for 2026 Public Preview! This is an unprecedented opportunity for the public to monitor and provide feedback on FedRAMP's efforts to consolidate rules in near real-time.

This work will take place during May and June of 2026, integrating and consolidating all changes to the FedRAMP rules that have taken place over the past year.

Warnings¶

This is a Public Preview, not official Rules!

The rules and supporting text on this site are not complete or finalized.

This information is shared for the convenience and awareness of the public and may change at any time.

The rapid changes to this content may be overwhelming for some stakeholders.

This content is intended for stakeholders who love to see fast moving information and are able and motivated to participate early and often. It is likely to be confusing or overwhelming for stakeholders who do not follow FedRAMP activities full-time.

Stakeholders that are new to FedRAMP, or who generally only check in irregularly to see what is going on, may prefer to wait for the official release of the Consolidated Rules for 2026 instead of trying to keep up with the Public Preview.

Structure and Feedback¶

All content on the Public Preview site contains a set of icons at the top of each page to provide information about the source and status of the page.

Feedback can be provided using the Giscus app, which leverages GitHub Discussions to create a simple comment capability for each individual page. These comment boxes appear on each page at the bottom and require you to sign into GitHub and connect the Giscus app.

FedRAMP will review and respond to all comments. Folks on the FedRAMP team you are most likely to see comments from include:

pete-gov - Pete, FedRAMP Director
nicole-gov - Nicole, Security Director
dan-fedramp - Dan, Lead Cloud Security Engineer
paulagosta - Paul, Lead Cloud Security Engineer (Bastion)
emu-gov - Emu, Lead Cloud Security Engineer (Vanguard)
rhoesing - Ryan, Chief of Staff & Policy Branch Chief

A note from the FedRAMP Director on public community collaboration

Stakeholders may only provide feedback using the GitHub based comment system. This allows me and other members of the FedRAMP team to respond and discuss in public for the benefit of all stakeholders.

Stakeholders that avoid the FedRAMP community on GitHub and email us directly create a significant burden for me and my team, forcing us to spend time answering the same questions from different people while ferrying information to/from the public community. This time can and should be better spent interacting with the community in public so that everyone has fair and equal access to information and context.

As a result, the opportunity to provide public feedback or ask questions about the Public Preview of the Consolidated Rules for 2026 is only available to stakeholders who participate in the public FedRAMP community. Questions or feedback will not be accepted via email.

Content Sources¶

Human-Written¶

Mostly unstructured narrative text, this content has been or will be written by a human as a general introduction or overview of a topic.

Machine-Generated¶

These are rules that are generated from structured JSON data. This content is originally written by a human within the FedRAMP Machine-Readable Rules but is automatically rendered into different sections of this site using a scripted build process.

Content Statuses¶

Stable Content¶

This content is mostly stable and is not being actively improved or modified. These pages are a great place to leave feedback as they are likely to only change significantly if there is a reason to modify them based on feedback.

Placeholder Content¶

This content is not finished but has some initial placeholder text in place that will be actively edited. In most cases it is intended just to give folks an idea of what needs to be written and what the intent of the content is. Placeholder content can vary wildly in maturity and completeness.

Placeholder content may be a good opportunity for feedback about the structure within the documentation, or thoughts on what people would like to see added.

Empty Content¶

The page only exists to demonstrate the intended structure of the site and that content will be produced for this topic. The content itself does not exist in the Public Preview yet, either because it is being edited by FedRAMP in a separate document, has not yet been generated, or has no placeholder content available yet.