FedRAMP 20x Machine Readable (FRMR) Docs

This repository contains FedRAMP 20x standards, technical assistance, and other materials in both machine-readable and human-readable formats.

FRMR Identifiers

See IDENTIFIERS.md for explanations about the naming and structure of these materials.

FRMR Materials

Markdown	PDF	Description	Version	Published Date
Authorization Data Sharing Standard (ADS)	[PDF]	Minor updates to improve clarity; switch from federal information to federal customer data; add impact level metadata; no substantive changes.	25.10A	2025-10-17
Significant Change Notification Requirements (SCN)	[PDF]	minor updates to improve clarity; switch from federal information to federal customer data; add impact level metadata; no substantive changes.	25.10A	2025-10-17
FedRAMP Definitions (FRD)	[PDF]	Minor updates to improve clarity; switch from federal information to federal customer data; no substantive changes.	25.10A	2025-10-17
Minimum Assessment Standard (MAS)	[PDF]	minor updates to improve clarity; switch from federal information to federal customer data; add impact level metadata; no substantive changes.	25.10A	2025-10-17
Vulnerability Detection and Response Standard (VDR)	[PDF]	Minor updates to improve clarity; switch from federal information to federal customer data; add impact level metadata; no substantive changes.	25.10A	2025-10-17
Key Security Indicators (KSI)	[PDF]	Minor updates to improve clarity; switch from federal information to federal customer data; add impact level metadata; no substantive changes.	25.10A	2025-10-17

In addition, simplified combined documents for each impact level are available as follows:

Markdown	PDF	Impact Level
All Combined	[PDF]	All
Low Combined	[PDF]	Low
Moderate Combined	[PDF]	Moderate
High Combined	[PDF]	High

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Folders

• FRMR.*.json — Requirement files
• templates/ — Handlebars templates
• markdown/ — Generated docs in markdown format
• tools/ — Scripts and tests (bun / node)

Testing

1. Install Bun: https://bun.sh

2. Install dependencies:

   cd tools
   bun install

Things you can do include:

If changes are made, all of these things need to be run manually at the moment, in the following order:

Validate JSON:

bun test

Create Combined JSON files

bun run scripts/combine-frmr-json.ts

Generate Markdown:

bun run watch

(watches for changes and regenerates markdown)

Generate Updated TOC:

bun run scripts/generate-table-of-docs.ts

(copy/paste to README.md)

Conversion to PDF:

cd markdown
../tools/scripts/update-pdfs.sh

Broader Changes / Notes

• October
  • Removed specific_release from JSON files (this was not really used)
  • Removed is_optional from JSON files to avoid confusion
  • Removed is_tentantive from JSON files to avoid confusion
  • Removed is_interim from JSON files to avoid confusion
  • Removed comment field from releases and replaced with comments array in JSON files