Clear hits FedRAMP marketplace

Clear is trying to turn the thing it built for airport lines into something federal agencies can buy for logins, account recovery, and identity checks, and it just cleared an early gate to do that. On April 8, 2026, Clear said its CLEAR1 platform was listed on the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program marketplace with “In Process” status at the Moderate level. (clearme.com) The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program is the government’s cloud security review system, and the marketplace is the shopping list agencies use to see which products are authorized or moving through review. The General Services Administration says the program gives agencies one standardized way to assess cloud services that handle federal data. (gsa.gov) “In Process” does not mean fully approved. It means a product has entered the formal path toward authorization, usually with an agency sponsor or through the Joint Authorization Board, so agencies can see that the review is underway before the final stamp arrives. (biometricupdate.com) The “Moderate” label is the important part for government work because that tier covers systems handling sensitive but not classified information. Clear said the new listing is aimed at agencies that need stronger controls for data, monitoring, and compliance before they can buy a cloud identity product. (clearme.com) Clear is not pitching a one-time document check. It says CLEAR1 builds a reusable identity record by combining a face match, a government-issued identification document, device signals, and checks against authoritative data sources, so a user can come back later and prove they are the same person with a selfie instead of starting from zero. (clearme.com) That reusable model is already showing up inside government services. In December 2025, Clear announced a contract with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to add CLEAR1 to Medicare.gov for account creation, account recovery, and access to health information in early 2026. (clearme.com) By March 3, 2026, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services had rolled out those new Medicare.gov login choices, and Clear was one of three options alongside ID.me and Login.gov. The agency said the goal was to give beneficiaries more secure ways to verify identity and reduce fraud and identity theft. (cms.gov) Medicare’s own login page shows how this is being sold to the public: users can create or connect an account through ID.me, Clear, or Login.gov, and they do not need to verify identity every time they sign in. The page also says Clear supports face or fingerprint sign-in, while in-person verification is offered only through ID.me and Login.gov. (medicare.gov) Clear says CLEAR1 is aligned with the National Institute of Standards and Technology digital identity rules at Identity Assurance Level 2 and Authenticator Assurance Level 2, which are the federal benchmarks for proving a person is real and protecting the login they use afterward. Clear also says the platform is certified by the Kantara Initiative for those levels and is compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. (clearme.com) The company says it now has more than 39 million verified users in its network, and that scale is part of the pitch to Washington. If agencies can plug into a reusable identity system people may already know from airports, healthcare, or workforce tools, Clear gets a path from a travel brand into federal contracting. (clearme.com)