We are excited to announce that Cisco Spaces for Government has achieved FedRAMP Moderate authorization, effective November 26, 2025, and the solution is orderable starting February 12, 2026. This authorization marks a significant milestone in Cisco’s continued commitment to delivering secure, compliant, and scalable cloud solutions for U.S. federal and government agencies.
Sponsored by the General Services Administration (GSA), this FedRAMP authorization reinforces Cisco’s broader effort to accelerate government compliance and bring innovative, cloud-first solutions to the public sector more quickly — without compromising on security.
What FedRAMP Moderate Authorization Means for Government Agencies
FedRAMP (Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program) is a mandatory requirement for U.S. federal agencies adopting cloud services. Achieving authorization at the Moderate Impact Level demonstrates that Cisco Spaces meets rigorous federal standards for security, risk management, and continuous monitoring. With this authorization, federal agencies can confidently deploy Cisco Spaces for Government knowing the platform aligns with federal security mandates while supporting modernization, return-to-office (RTO), and smart spaces initiatives.
Purpose-Built for Government, Powered at Global Scale
Cisco Spaces for Government is built on the Cisco Spaces cloud platform, which powers over 15 billion square feet of enterprise space globally. The platform leverages existing Cisco wireless infrastructure and collaboration devices to deliver location intelligence, occupancy insights, and operational visibility – without requiring new, complex hardware deployments.
For government agencies, this means:
- Secure, cloud-first architecture designed for federal environments
- Industry-leading reliability and scalability
- Compliance-ready solutions that works with existing Cisco investments
RTO Mandates and Occupancy and utilization reporting guidelines
Federal Return-to-Office (RTO) mandates driven by the January 2025 Presidential Memorandum require agencies to bring employees back to in-person work while ensuring space availability and efficiency. As agencies navigate this shift, the ability to ensure space availability and efficiency while enabling engaging, productive, and collaborative workplaces is critical. Agencies are also required to report occupancy and utilization rates for space in public buildings and federally leased space to meet the requirements of the Utilizing Space Efficiently and Improving Technologies Act or USE IT Act, making accurate occupancy data a vital tool for agencies to accurately evaluate space utilization and manage their properties accordingly.
Eliminating the Physical Blind Spot in Government Buildings
However, workplaces often have limited visibility into how people, spaces, and connected assets behave within their facilities. Cisco Spaces for Government eliminates this physical blind spot by transforming network signals into actionable insights – securely and at scale. By harnessing location intelligence from the Cisco network, agencies gain real-time awareness of how their buildings are used, enabling smarter decisions across workplace planning, operations, and employee experience.
Key Use Cases for Federal and Government Agencies
- Gain Occupancy and Space Utilization Analytics: Cisco Spaces provides real-time and historical insights into occupancy and utilization patterns, peak usage trends and true demand for different workspace that help agencies refine RTO strategies, right-size conference room and desk inventories, optimize layouts, reduce real-estate costs, and enhance workplace experience. This also allows agencies that are required to report occupancy and utilization rates for space in public buildings and federally leased space, to gain access to continuous utilization data.
- Location Analytics: Gain detailed insights into footfall and visit trends, visit frequency and dwell times, and more. Teams can create customized dashboards, reports, and widgets tailored to mission-specific needs.
- Enhance Employee Experience: As employees return on-site, ease of navigation and access to resources becomes critical. Cisco Spaces helps employees discover real-time room and desk availability via kiosks, search spaces by capacity or amenities, with less friction and wasted time.
- Track IT Devices and Assets: Cisco Spaces enables agencies to detect and locate IT devices such as laptops, tablets, and mobile equipment on the wireless network – helping reduce loss, improve availability, and streamline inventory management.
- Extend insights to your enterprise through the Cisco Spaces API. Agencies and ecosystem partners can extend location context, occupancy, IoT sensor data, and device context data into enterprise applications.
- IoT Sensor Telemetry: Leverage BLE gateways on Cisco access points, and monitor telemetry, location, and sensor attributes.
- CMX On-Prem for Air-Gapped Environments: For agencies with air-gapped requirements, Cisco CMX On-Prem delivers indoor location and behavioral insights using existing wireless infrastructure—fully on-premises and secure.
Delivering Secure Access to Smart Spaces Outcomes for Government
With FedRAMP Moderate authorization, Cisco Spaces for Government allows federal agencies to unlock a wide range of smart spaces outcomes, leveraging their infrastructure as a foundation — while meeting the highest standards of security and compliance.
This milestone represents another step forward in Cisco’s mission to help government agencies modernize workplaces, improve operational efficiency, and deliver better experiences for employees and visitors.
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