DHS ordered DeepSeek out of civilian federal systems. Apps built on it are covered too.
By Lior AharonovFounder, 7IT Solutions ·
On 20 October 2026 DHS published an order in the Federal Register that tells federal civilian agencies to exclude DeepSeek products from procurement and remove them from their IT systems, or request an exception within 60 days of the order's issuance. It covers DeepSeek's affiliates and third-party products and services built using DeepSeek technology, and it is not a general ban on private or consumer use.
If you sell software to a US civilian agency and a DeepSeek model runs anywhere inside it, your product is on the removal list. The order reaches past DeepSeek's own apps to what others built on them.
If you sell to US federal civilian agencies, list every model your product calls, including the ones inside vendor APIs, and replace any DeepSeek model before the agency asks.
Model choice used to be an engineering decision. In federal sales it is now a compliance line item.
Lior Aharonov · my takeSources
- DHS bans DeepSeek products across US federal civilian agencies (BleepingComputer) bleepingcomputer.com
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