So just after ISO rejected Simon and Speck, NIST is announcing new crypto competition just for algorithms like Simon and Speck, how convenient for the NSA, lets see how it goes, maybe this time they will be able to shove it just like DUAL_EC:
"NIST Issues First Call for ‘Lightweight Cryptography’ to Protect Small Electronics"
"NIST Issues First Call for ‘Lightweight Cryptography’ to Protect Small Electronics"
https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2018/04/nist-issues-fi...