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The System Package Data Exchange™ (SPDX®)

An open standard capable of representing systems with software components in as SBOMs (Software Bill of Materials) and other AI, data and security references supporting a range of risk management use cases.

The SPDX specification is a freely available international open standard (ISO/IEC 5962:2021).

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podence | Sep 9, 2026
SPDX Articles in Journal of Innovation

Bob Martin did a great job getting two articles into the August 2026 Journal of Innovation that explore how SPDX can help make supply-chain information…

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Announcements
podence | Jun 30, 2026
Cool New Whitepaper

Recently Bob Martin and a colleague published the paper "Leveraging SBOMs Throughout the Enterprise SDLC" that examines how enterprises can leverage SBOMs throughout the full…

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