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Milestones, Approach and Status

The OSCAL Foundation's FedRAMP Technical Focus Group (TFG) is enabling FedRAMP stakeholders to adopt OSCAL for FedRAMP package deliverables. The following is our plan of work:

Milestones

  • Phase 0 Establish Resources and Form Team [Complete]
  • Phase 1 MVP FedRAMP System Security Plans (SSP) [In Progress]
  • Phase 2 MVP FedRAMP Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&M) [Next]
  • Phase 3 MVP FedRAMP Security Assessment Plans and Reports (SAP and SAR)
  • Phase 4 Non-MVP Topics and Refinement of MVP Topic
  • Phase 5 GovRAMP, DoD/FedRAMP+, DoD Impact Levels, CMMC and Related Variants

Target Dates

  • March 31:15: Full Draft MVP SSP and POA&M Representation
  • April: Socialize with FedRAMP PMO and CSP-AB
  • April 16 (tentative):15: Presentation at NIST OSCAL Workshop

Approach

Work within each of the above phases occurs in this sequence:

  1. Define the OSCAL MVP Representation
  2. Address Validation:
  3. Communicate Availability
  4. Expand and Refine Representation

Status Log

Last Updated MarchApril 4,8, 2026

  • Form TFG: Complete
  • Establish Patterns Library: Complete
  • Establish GitHub Repository: Complete
  • Migrate prior FedRAMP baselines in OSCAL format to repository: Complete
  • Migrate prior FedRAMP OSCAL SSP work into patterns library: Complete
  • Formulate communication plan: In ProgressComplete
  • Migrate prior FedRAMP OSCAL SSP example: Complete
  • Formulate Adoption Paths: Complete
  • Review/Refine FedRAMP OSCAl SSP patterns: In Progress
  • Review/Refine FedRAMP OSCAL SSP example: In Progress
  • Draft "Executive Summary" and "Getting Started" content: Next
  • POA&M example and patterns: Next
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