For the better part of a decade, doing business under EU digital law has been challenging, with DDPR, ePrivacy updates, the NUS2 Directive, the AI and Data Acts, and others coming in rapid succession. For organizations already investing heavily in compliance frameworks like CMMC, the prospect of layering on yet another set of requirements has been a frustrating layer of work.

The Digital Omnibus, formally proposed by the European Commission in November 2025 and now working its way through the European Parliament and Council, is a sweeping effort to align overlapping definitions, consolidate reporting obligations, and bring coherence to what the Commission itself has acknowledged is regulatory “clutter.” 

For companies that have already built compliance architectures, this Omnibus can help make cross-regulation compliance that much easier. 

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The updates and expansion of FedRAMP make a few things clear, the most significant of which is that government agencies are counting on cloud tools to help them do their work. But they also want certainty. The FedRAMP Ready designation was meant to bridge the gap between agencies seeking audited platforms and SaaS providers seeking authorization on a more realistic path. 

Now, with the Ready designation retiring in July 2026, it seems that the door may be closing. But the move from traditional ATOs to persistent validation opens it up again and makes it much more viable for these SaaS providers to enter the federal market. 

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With the January 2026 release of multiple RFCs tied to the FedRAMP Authorization Act, the program is shifting from incremental process tweaks to structural modernization. This has been on the horizon for a while now, with the announcement of the FedRAMP 20x program. But this string of RFCs signals that the program is finalizing the finer points of this transformation. For CSPs and their compliance leaders, this is the point at which the realities of FedRAMP over the next decade come into sharper focus.

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