DoD's Regulatory Wishlist: Warriors and Red Tape Ahead
Published Date: 8/14/2026
Proposed Rule
Summary
This agenda announces the regulatory and deregulatory actions the DoW plans to take in the next 12 months and those regulatory and deregulatory actions completed since the publication of the Spring 2025 Unified Agenda. It was developed under the guidelines of Executive Order 12866, "Regulatory Planning and Review," and Executive Order 13563, "Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review." This agenda includes actions that support the Administration's priorities; the Secretary of Defense's top priorities to revive the warrior ethos, rebuild our military, and reestablish deterrence. Members of the public may submit comments on individual proposed and interim final rulemakings at www.regulations.gov during the comment period that follows publication in the Federal Register. This agenda updates the report published on September 22, 2025, and includes regulations expected to be issued or under review by DoW over the next 12 months. The complete Unified Agenda will be available online at www.reginfo.gov. In accordance with the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 602), which requires agencies to publish their regulatory flexibility agendas in the Federal Register, the DoW's printed agenda entries in the Federal Register include only: (1) Rules that are in the Agency's regulatory flexibility agenda, in accordance with the Regulatory Flexibility Act, because they are likely to have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities; and (2) Any rules that the Agency has identified for periodic review under the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 610). Although printing of these entries is limited to fields that contain information required by the Regulatory Flexibility Act's agenda requirements, additional information on these entries is in the Unified Agenda available online.
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.
Changes to Other Transaction (OT) Rules
The Department of War is finalizing revisions to rules for Other Transaction (OT) agreements for prototype projects. The changes explicitly include authority for follow-on production OTs and contracts; special circumstances for award of OTs to small businesses, nontraditional defense contractors, nonprofit research institutions, and consortia; approval requirements for large-dollar OTs; authority to supply prototypes and production items to another contractor; and applying procurement ethics requirements to covered OT agreements. The NPRM was published 09/04/24 and the entry lists a Final Action date of 07/00/26.
CMMC 2.0 Implementation for Contractors
The Department of War issued a final DFARS rule implementing the CMMC 2.0 Framework to assess contractor cybersecurity compliance and protect intellectual property and sensitive information in the Defense Industrial Base. The rule provides DoD assurances about contractors' security and the document estimates annualized costs of approximately $16,000,000 for the public; the final action was published 09/10/25 and became effective 11/10/25.
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