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This paper describes the NVIDIA NeMo team’s submission to the IWSLT 2026 Simultaneous Speech Translation (SimulST) tracks. We use a cascaded architecture combining a dual-mode Unified ASR Transducer model with a multilingual Large Language Model (LLM). The ASR is trained to deliver stable transcriptions across wide range of latencies, providing a reliable foundation for high-quality LLM translation. Our submission participates in the English–German, English–Italian, and English–Chinese tasks, in both standard and contextualized settings, as well as the Czech–English standard track, covering both low- and high-latency scenarios. We further analyze how ASR and LLM design choices affect the system’s overall latency and translation quality.