If you’re in the DIB, you’ve been waiting (with varying degrees of patience) for a CMMC Phase II update since July 2026. We feel your pain. Earlier this month, we got something else entirely from the DoW: an 80-page memo on a class deviation implementing...
Three terms come up in nearly every CMMC conversation, and they get used loosely enough that people mix them up constantly. The System Security Plan, the POA&M, and the SPRS score are not the same thing, and they do not do the same job. Once you see how they...
An aerospace manufacturer carries a heavier IT planning load than most companies realize going in. CMMC and NIST SP 800-171 apply the same way they would to any defense contractor, but aerospace work often adds ITAR on top of that, along with production equipment that...
A DoD contract does not come with a single IT checklist. It comes with a set of clauses, and those clauses point to security requirements that touch nearly every part of how a contractor runs its systems. Understanding what DoD IT management asks for, separate from...
A government contractor cannot hire a normal IT provider and treat security and compliance as a separate project. Every system, every login, every backup decision touches the same rules that govern how Controlled Unclassified Information and Federal Contract...
