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title: "Research: Defense Cloud Compliance Data"
description: "Original data reports on cloud compliance in the Defense Industrial Base: CMMC readiness, assessment failures, and misconfiguration patterns. Open, dated, with stated limits."
url: https://policycortex.com/research
sealed: 2026-03-17
amended: 2026-03-17
register: research
records: 3
digest: sha3:bd8034eee6abdc4e4dee858d5b473624341171c46b60d5ff59e2362aee285fbb
---

# Research: original data on defense cloud compliance

Register / Research

Research holds the original data reports PolicyCortex publishes on cloud compliance in the Defense Industrial Base: CMMC readiness, assessment failures, misconfiguration patterns, and remediation velocity. Each report states its method and its limits, is open to read without a form, and is sealed on the date shown so the figures can be dated when quoted.

1 entry · Latest sealed 2026-03-17

## Reports, newest first

| Sealed | Report | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | [State of Defense Contractor Cloud Compliance 2026 [Original Report]](https://policycortex.com/research/defense-cloud-compliance-report-2026): Original research on cloud compliance posture across the Defense Industrial Base. | 11 min |

## Related records

Guides and articles describe the work. The evidence that work produces is described in three proof pages and one architecture page.

- **proof.state**: [Proof of State](https://policycortex.com/proof/state). What the environment was, as of a date someone else picks: point-in-time records, content hashed and chained.
- **proof.change**: [Proof of Change](https://policycortex.com/proof/change). Who or what altered the environment, under what authority, with before and after state hashes.
- **proof.agency**: [Proof of Agency](https://policycortex.com/proof/agency). What a machine was permitted to do before it acted, what it did, and what would have stopped it.
- **architecture**: [Architecture](https://policycortex.com/architecture). How the chain is built and where it lives: inside your tenant, with no egress of evidence.

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