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Pentagon pauses cyber audit rule blamed for supplier exits<\/a><\/p>\n

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Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points. By Mike StoneWASHINGTON, July 13 (Reuters) – The Pentagon is suspending the next phase of a cybersecurity certification program for defense contractors, backing \u200coff a compliance requirement that industry executives had warned was pushing \u200csmall suppliers out of military work and narrowing competition in the defense supply chain.The Defense Department’s \u200blong-delayed U.S. Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification began in November 2025 and aims to protect sensitive information, known as controlled unclassified information.The Phase 2 rollout of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification, which was to take effect on November 10 of \u200cthis year, will be paused \u2060immediately, the department said. Program offices will for now require only Level 1 or Level 2 self-assessments rather than the \u2060third-party audits Phase 2 would have mandated.The move follows months of complaints from small and mid-sized aerospace and defense suppliers, some of whom told Reuters earlier \u200bthis year \u200bthat compliance costs were running into the \u200bhundreds of thousands of dollars. \u200cThey said this, combined with long waits for third-party audits, was prompting them to reconsider defense work altogether.Industry lawyers had also warned the rules risked squeezing out lower-tier suppliers and complicating business for international companies juggling competing data-privacy standards.Pentagon Chief Information Officer Kirsten Davies said the suspension responds to those pressures.The \u200cPentagon said in a statement that “CMMC compliance \u200bis forcing innovative companies out of the Defense \u200bIndustrial Base,” and that the \u200bdepartment would launch a 60-day review.Pentagon Under Secretary of War \u200cfor Acquisition and Sustainment Michael Duffey \u200btied the decision \u200bto the department’s push to speed weapons production, saying the change would remove “paralyzing costs” while keeping “innovators and competition growing in the defense supply chain.”A \u200bnewly formed CMMC Reform \u200cTask Force will draw on industry feedback collected through a public \u200brequest for information and deliver recommendations within 60 days.(Reporting by Mike \u200bStone in WashingtonEditing by Matthew Lewis)
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