Ships stay in service for decades. Your CUI has to stay protected for just as long.
Hull designs, propulsion systems, and sonar specs don't age out when a contract closes. They stay sensitive for the life of the vessel, sometimes thirty years or more, while subcontractors up and down the supply chain each build their own version of compliance from scratch. Sentinel Blue is a CyberAB-authorized C3PAO built to get your yard or your shop certified without starting from zero.
A build schedule measured in years hides a security problem measured in decades
Shipbuilding runs on longer timelines than almost anything else in the defense industrial base, and that changes what "secure" has to mean. A compliance program built for a two-year contract doesn't hold up over a service life that outlasts the people who designed it.
Decades of exposure, not months
Hull designs and propulsion data stay sensitive for as long as the vessel is in service. A security posture that was current five years ago isn't automatically current now, even if nothing on paper changed.
The same work, built hundreds of times over
A single shipyard's supplier roster can run into the hundreds. Most of those subcontractors are building a separate CMMC program from scratch, at separate cost, with uneven results across the same vessel.
Physical and digital security now overlap
Dry dock access, facility badges, and the digital systems managing blueprints and maintenance records all fall under the same umbrella today. A gap in one is functionally a gap in both.
Lose the contract
Awards involving CUI don't flow to a subcontractor without a current Level 2 certification on file. No certification on record, no seat at the table.
Lose the yard's confidence
Shipyards manage huge subcontractor rosters. A supplier that can't show current certification gets quietly routed around on the next phase of the build.
Lose decades of relationship
Shipbuilding programs run for years, sometimes generations. Getting dropped after that long a vetting process is a much harder climb back than getting certified once and staying that way.
One partner for the certification and the security behind it
A lot of firms can hand you a checklist. Fewer can assess you, and fewer still can also run the security operations that keep you compliant between assessments, year after year, for as long as the program runs. Sentinel Blue does both, through the Shield program built for suppliers who answer to a shipyard and to the schedule of a vessel that isn't going anywhere for thirty years.
Authorized C3PAO assessment
Sentinel Blue is authorized by the Cyber-AB to conduct official CMMC Level 2 assessments. Certification comes from the same team that scoped your environment, not a separate vendor you have to loop in after the fact.
Managed GRC with Pathfinder
Pathfinder keeps your System Security Plan, SPRS score, and NIST SP 800-171 controls current year over year, so your program doesn't lose ground every time staff or leadership turns over.
Managed security with Overwatch
Overwatch puts a real security operations center on watch over your network around the clock, built to catch the kind of intrusion that targets design data meant to stay protected for the life of the vessel.
Built around the tier structure a shipyard runs on
Sentinel Blue already works at the intersection where shipbuilding suppliers live, where CUI, physical security, and a schedule set by someone else all land on the same desk. We've mapped what that looks like for tier 1, tier 2, and tier 3 suppliers feeding a shipyard's build schedule.
Scope the assessment
We map where CUI lives across engineering, facility systems, and supplier portals, so you're not paying to certify more than you need to.
Close the gaps
We build the SSP, remediate the controls, and get your SPRS score where it needs to be before the next program review.
Certify
Our authorized C3PAO team runs the formal Level 2 assessment, so certification comes from people who already know your environment.
Stay covered
Overwatch and Pathfinder carry the work forward across staff turnover and program phases, so you're ready for the next annual affirmation, not starting over each time.
Your program will outlast this compliance cycle. Make sure your certification does too.
Talk to a Sentinel Blue assessor about where your yard or your shop is according to NIST SP 800-171, and what it takes to keep that standing current for the life of the program, not just this contract.