Participation boundary: GShips has not registered, submitted, sponsored, or committed to attend. Any proposed action requires separate authorization.
- Start
- 2026-09-22
- End
- 2026-09-23
- Location
- McLean, United States
- Status
- monitor
- Access notes
- NIST lists the September 22–23 forum as in person at MITRE in McLean, free and open to the public, with registration required and now open. NIST says tentative topics will be available in late July and a draft agenda in August. Capacity, accessibility, recording, host-site access, and final agenda fit require confirmation.
- Eligibility
- The forum is described as open to the public, subject to required registration and the host site's access procedures. No registration, attendance, or NIST/MITRE relationship has been undertaken.
- Official link checked
- 2026-07-26
- Editorial reviewer
- GShips Project AI-assisted official-source review
Proposed GShips action—not undertaken
Evaluate attendance as a public software-assurance learning option; register only after schedule, travel, accessibility, and a specific Update Airlock learning agenda are approved.
Event series: NIST Software and Supply Chain Assurance Forum
Task-specific uses
These matches rank the usefulness of a concrete artifact for a bounded GShips task; they do not rank the event itself.
Tier monitor · task-specific
Relevant to SBOMs, provenance, reproducible builds, and long-life supply-chain assurance.
Artifact to bring: A public defensive recovery requirements crosswalk; no implication of NIST approval.
Action status: proposed; not undertaken
Evidence and accountability
Evidence boundary: NIST's SSCA series page supports the next occurrence's dates, location, free/public status, and registration requirement; it does not establish agenda quality, GShips fit, accessibility, capacity, admission, or participant availability.
Conflicts: Publisher intends to explore a commercial venture based on some GShips work; no event registration, submission, sponsorship, attendance commitment, or organizer relationship exists.
What would change this record? A NIST update to the occurrence date, venue, agenda, registration availability, public-access rule, or host-site requirements would change this profile.
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